[5] After the coal was removed, it was transported underground from the South Hills to industries along the Monongahela river.
The "coal road" passed under three hills, under Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania, then a trestle over a ravine at the present location of Parkwood Road, then under the hill topped by Fort Jones, later St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church[6] and St. Clair Village, then over another ravine at the present-day Wagner Street, to re-enter an underground mine section in Carrick near where Bruner Street is today.
[9] Coal was transferred from Spiketown to the mine entrance on St. Patrick Street by a tail rope system,[5] which was later replaced by a steam locomotive that ran underground.
[10][11] Although the incline is no longer in existence, its site is occupied by South Side Park, which was also a location of a Sankey brick works.
When the enginehouse of the coal road burned shortly before the expiration of Keeling's lease on the mine, the lease was not renewed; At about the same time, the Pittsburgh and Whitehall Railroad obtained an easement adjacent to the track in the center of South 21st St.[12][13] In addition to the incline from the Ormsby mine, the Keeling company ran a separate incline for coal, this one with a curve, that in part ran parallel to the lower end of the Mt.