Word: winterclad
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Pressure, Down through a winterclad West Virginia valley before sunup puffed a four-car work-train filled with sleepy-eyed men. They were going to their jobs in a mine atop a nearby hill, owned by Elkhorn-Piney Coal Co., subsidiary of Koppers Coal & Transportation Co. of Pittsburgh, which also owned the train. As the train stopped at each little valley settlement, workmen climbed on jauntily swinging pails. With some 300 passengers aboard, Engineer William M. Blankenhorn stopped at the little mining community of Powellton, to work up more steam. Up & up went the pressure gauge. Satisfied that...
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