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Engineer C. V. Berry, left, and brakeman Walter Bennett, right, are pictured with the coal company's railway engine.

1. Glendale Colliery Company Engine, Backus, W. Va.

IDNO:: 052089
Title:: Glendale Colliery Company Engine, Backus, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1903-1915
Description:: Engineer C. V. Berry, left, and brakeman Walter Bennett, right, are pictured with the coal company's railway engine.

Men sit on the side of the locomotive. The Mann's Creek Railroad carried coal from the Babcock Coal and Coke Company in Clifftop, W. Va. to sawmills in Landisburg, Pa.

2. Likely Mann's Creek Railroad Engine and Workers

IDNO:: 052103
Title:: Likely Mann's Creek Railroad Engine and Workers
Date:: undated
Description:: Men sit on the side of the locomotive. The Mann's Creek Railroad carried coal from the Babcock Coal and Coke Company in Clifftop, W. Va. to sawmills in Landisburg, Pa.

Men carry coal from a railroad car and shovel coal into furnaces.

3. Coke Ovens in Eagle, W. Va.

IDNO:: 052110
Title:: Coke Ovens in Eagle, W. Va.
Date:: undated
Description:: Men carry coal from a railroad car and shovel coal into furnaces.

Thomas G. McKell built the Kanawha, Glen Jean & Eastern Railway between Glen Jean, W. Va. and Deepwater, W. Va, a town situated on the Kanawha River. The rail line served as a means to transport coal for the McKell Coal & Coke Company, and made a connection with the C. & O. Railway as well.

4. Thomas McKell's K. G. J. and E. Railway near Glen Jean, W. Va.

IDNO:: 052140
Title:: Thomas McKell's K. G. J. and E. Railway near Glen Jean, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1900
Description:: Thomas G. McKell built the Kanawha, Glen Jean & Eastern Railway between Glen Jean, W. Va. and Deepwater, W. Va, a town situated on the Kanawha River. The rail line served as a means to transport coal for the McKell Coal & Coke Company, and made a connection with the C. & O. Railway as well.

An electric haulage rail system at mine no. 2. An Africa-American miner is pictured in the conductor's seat on the train engine. Miners inspect the coal loaded into the carts before it is transported.

5. Mecca Colliery and Coke Company, Morris Creek, near Montgomery, W. Va.

IDNO:: 052162
Title:: Mecca Colliery and Coke Company, Morris Creek, near Montgomery, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1900
Description:: An electric haulage rail system at mine no. 2. An Africa-American miner is pictured in the conductor's seat on the train engine. Miners inspect the coal loaded into the carts before it is transported.