Where the mine cars are emptied !

This photo shows you the place where the mine cars have been emptied on Lohberg colliery's fourth level. The round machines in the middle of the photo turned the mine cars headfirst so that the coal fell into the so called 1.000-ton-bunker. Until to the middle of the 1980s the mine cars were emptied and the coal was prepared for the hoisting process in this way.

Special thanks to Arno Hoffmann for sending me the CD with the photos. If the - pitily unknown - photographer does not want the pictures to be published here, please send me an e-mail.