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 It is my understanding that a mine run shifter would begin the day by taking empty cars from the marshalling yard to the mines along a branch and picking up the loaded cars and then bringing all the loaded cars back to the marshalling yard at the end of the day. Did the shifter drop off the emties first at each mine and then pick up the loaded cars on its way back or did it drop off empties and pick up the loads at the same time ? I've seen no photos of the shifters runinning a load backwards so how did they turn around at the end of a branch run to bring the loaded cars back? Would the shifter also bring in tank cars for the oil that was used in processing coal at some tipples or other freight cars with machinery or wood required by the mine .....or was this type of material brought in by a standard frieigh engine?
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