The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits ...

Menards continues to add to their line of industrial structures. A little more than a year ago, they introduced Sooty's Coal Tipple, and have now added an O gauge Sooty's Mine Shaft to the lineup.

Tipples were large structures used to sort and load coal. Coal was transported from the mines to the Tipple in four-ton capacity rail carts. When the carts arrived at the upper level of the Tipple ...