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I would presume your letters are correct. A, B, C, D and E. Now here is a few tidbits.You would want oil to spray onto the coal to keep dust down. Some mines did this and advertised it as such. Dustless coal etc.The tipple loader GENERALLY had a pile of sorted coal to load into the hopper. USUALLY he had a chute to guide the coal into the hopper car. Most of the time the hopper car sat on a downgrade that is very gentle. There was a crewman on the ground that will have a iron bar and loosen the brake wheel of that hopper car to drift it as it is being loaded. Eventually that hopper car is drifted down to the loads outbound area.Usually there are several more hoppers on that track BEHIND the tipple.Mine trains came up in the morning, dropped the empties ready to be drifted under the tipples and departed with loads later in the day.It would be a rather low output mine, but if you can find a bunch of mines along a branch .. say 4 of them suddenly that mine train is going to be groaning with coal coming back down.Mine run coal had everything in it. Unsorted. Cheep.Stoker coal I think were smaller pea sized coal.. probably sold for home coal heat/hot water units.Baseball sized coal (Lump?) went to industry or shipping.Other sizes got quite big but there I think was about 6 general differences in size with a specific family of end users for that size coal.
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