File:Lost Creek Fuel Shaft 1.jpg

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English: Shaft number 1 of the Lost Creek Fuel Company, south of Oskaloosa, Iowa. This mine was opened in 1895 and employed 215 men. The tall structure is the headframe of the mine shaft, with the attached tipple slanting down to the tracks. This mine was served by the Iowa Central Railway and the Burlington and Western Railway; the latter was a narrow gauge line, and the entire rail yard serving the mine is built with dual gauge track. The coal cars shown are all gondolas built from flatcars with attached sides. The car on the right is a standard gauge car, the ones on the left are narrow gauge. This image has been edited to remove speckles from the sky, lightly blurred to mute the halftone texture, and then rotated to make the mine shaft vertical.
Date
Source Digitized from a newspaper clipping held by the Mahaska County Historical Society, Oskaloosa, Iowa, originally from the Oskaloosa Daily Herald, Feb. 10, 1906.
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Camera location41° 11′ 08.27″ N, 92° 36′ 08.78″ W  Heading=247.5° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Geolocation based on the 1895 plat map of Mahasa County, relating that to trace evidence of the former mine on the 1930s areal photos and then relating these to modern maps, using the sun angle indicated by the shadows in the photo to recover the camera heading.

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Lost Creek Fuel Company Shaft number 1 in 1896.

41°11'8.272"N, 92°36'8.780"W

heading: 247.5 degree

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