The Reliance Tipple

Coal reached this tipple along a motor line more than a mile long, up to twenty-four cars at a time, and the 1936 machinery still inside sorted it. Each car was turned over in a rotary dump, the coal shaken into four sizes from powdery slack upward, then carried to sorting tables where pickers took out slate and rock by hand before it was loaded into hoppers and boxcars. In 1943 the Reliance mines produced 1.4 million tons. Wyoming's other standing tipple, at Aladdin in the Black Hills, is built of wood.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Expedition Island — 17 mi
  Where John Wesley Powell's 1871 survey left for the canyons of the Green and Colorado; where his 1869 trip started has never been proven.
• Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker Dunes — 20 mi
  The throat of a vanished volcano made of rock from the mantle, standing over a fifty-five-mile river of dunes that crosses the Continental Divide.

More markers nearby

• Rock Springs Stage Station Site — 4.8 mi
• Rock Springs Coal — 5.8 mi
• Beneath This Monument (Union Pacific No. 1 Mine) — 5.8 mi
• Landscapes of Power — 5.9 mi