Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2014 11 05

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• The Acme railroad spur, also called the Acme Switch, extended from the main railroad line westward all the way to the end of Lincoln Avenue. The Louisville Grain Elevator was built to be parallel to, and to use, the Acme railroad spur. • A boxcar loader by the tipple and the railroad spur is identified on the Acme Mine map. This may have included a mechanized conveyor for filling railroad boxcars with coal. • A trestle carried coal cars filled with dirt, rock, and unusable coal to the mine dump. • The mine dump was located to the east of the tipple, in the middle of Main Street and what is now the Elks Club parking lot between Roosevelt Avenue and Main Street. • The water tank supplied water for the boiler house. • The boiler house was the building that contained boilers, which provided steam pressure to move machinery. Coal was likely burned to boil the water to create steam. Photos show that at the Acme Mine, this building had three smokestacks. Smokestacks were needed above a boiler room in order to get rid of smoke. • The engine house is believed to have been the building that housed the steam - powered engine that raised and lowered the cage. • The fan house forced air into the mine for ventilation. • A small office building was also on site. • The blacksmith building was where the mine blacksmith worked, presumably on making, repairing, and sharpening mining tools. • Mines in the Louisville area used mules to pull coal cars, with the mules being stabled down in the mine. However, the presence of a barn on the Acme property that is said to have been for stables suggests that there was a need to stable mules (or horses) aboveground. • A fence enclosed the complex. Photos of Mine Buildings: The following photos show the different buildings of the Acme Mine. The following photo from pre -1901, which was taken from the Acme Mine dump, shows the tipple and trestle, water tank, engine house, and boiler house. 6