Tennessee Coal, Iron and RR Company (TCI)
This image is published in White's "Birmingham District", p. 213, and shows a different view of Oxmoor in 1918. The caption reads "Oxmoor
furnaces with pig casting sheds and railways cars loaded with Red Mountain ore in foreground, 1918."
Note the equipment in the left of the picture below, with the smokestacks. Are these boilers, or are they the "belgian" coke ovens discuss previously?
In the detail of the 1885 photo on a previous page, there do not appear to be any equipment or stacks behind and above them. Maybe they were under
construction and incomplete in the 1885 photo.
The mention of the iron ore being on the train cars is interesting, as it is not at all clear to Birmingham Rails how this configuration of rail car is related to
iron ore. On the other hand, it is not known what these cars could be carrying.
