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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. 'This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews.  Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day.  Note how the cars are trimmed!  What a neat appearance they present!  Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed.  Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows.  Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal.  No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention.  Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines.  Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture.'

1. Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. "This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews.  Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day.  Note how the cars are trimmed!  What a neat appearance they present!  Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed.  Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows.  Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal.  No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention.  Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines.  Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture."

2. Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple

Coal loading area.  Cars going under a tipple.

3. Summerlee Coal Mine Facilities

Large trainline of coal cars. New River Co., Mt. Hope, W.Va., Summerlee Mine.  Summerlee, W.Va.  'C.H. Sprague + Son, 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.'

4. Loaded Cars at the Summerlee Coal Tipple

Coal cars coming away from tipple.

5. Sumerlee Coal Tipple

Many coal cars loaded at the Summerlee Mine.

6. Coal Cars at Summerlee Coal Tipple