Hickory Hill mine aerial tramway would have extended through the silo here. Levers opened three chutes to fill the tramway buckets.

I've never seen a photo of the installation in use, but marks on the silo suggest a peaked roof building adjoined it here.

I wonder if the tram ran continuously and they had to fill buckets "on the fly", or was there a way to disengage them from the cable, or...? I presume it was powered at the steam plant end. Electric power seems likely, as they had plenty of that. It wouldn't have taken "much" power, since loads were going downhill.

Concrete piers for the tramway can be seen nearby, and theoretically you can follow them over the mountains (the descent is VERY steep!) in non-snake and briar season.

Overview pic: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15393366/