Paintsville, KY: CSX/C&O/BSKR Railyard and Coaling Tower

(Satellite, it looks like there are a lot of empty coal cars in storage)

BSKR = Big Sandy & Kentucky River

This is another example of where they have removed the metal of the skip hoist, but not of the stairwells.

F Will Martin posted
Coal tower at Paintsville, KY, 3-3-95, Ex. C&O. Kodachrome by FW Martin.
Dennis DeBruler Accordingto Historic Aerials, it was gone by 2004. It was about here:
https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...

You can see the square between two tracks near the bottom left of the yard where this tower used to be.

1954 Paintsville Quadrangle @ 1:24,000