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Coal cars at tipple being loaded with coal.

1. Coal Cars Being Loaded

Caption on back reads, 'White Oak Stove size is surely growing in popularity, and why not? It is an ideal size for laundries, bakeries, hot water heaters and similar uses. It is uniformly sized, free from slack and impurities and can be washed if desired.'

2. White Oak Stove Size Coal in Coal Car

Caption on back reads, 'The most popular size smokeless coal marketed today is egg size and White Oak is proud of its egg coal. Neither too large, nor too small; perfectly screened and without a single impurity are reasons for the popularity of this wonderful domestic fuel. Note the even size of this egg coal as it is passing over the loading boom into the railroad car. Treated for dust if desired.'

3. White Oak Coal

Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background.

4. Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine

A string of coal cars being loaded.

5. Coal Cars Being Loaded

The acid test of coal preparation is to lift your boom to clear and direct the critical eye of the camera against your coal to determine whether or not you are loading your coal properly. This is just what the camera man did in this case. No previous warning or preparation, he just stopped at a tipple, asked the inspector to lift the boom and took this picture. Note again the firmness of this coal in the railroad car; not a trace of slack or impurities.

6. Pure Coal at the Preparation Plan

7. Railroad Coal Cars at a Tipple next to a River with Tracks for Coal Carts in the Foreground

Coal mining cars being loading under a tipple.  Coal car in the background going down a track.

8. Coal Mine Tipple

9. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

10. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

Man walking on a train track beside two other tracks with coal cars on them.

11. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

12. Skelton Mine Tipple

Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

13. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company