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49. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002013
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal
Filled coal car with houses visible in the background.

50. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19120 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002014
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19120 Loaded with Coal
Description:
Filled coal car with houses visible in the background.

51. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19120 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002015
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19120 Loaded with Coal

52. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002016
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05

53. Coal Cars Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002017
Title:
Coal Cars Loaded with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05
Coal cars at tipple being loaded with coal.

54. Coal Cars Being Loaded

IDNO:
002020
Title:
Coal Cars Being Loaded
Description:
Coal cars at tipple being loaded with coal.

55. Coal Cars Filled with Different Grades of Coal

IDNO:
002021
Title:
Coal Cars Filled with Different Grades of Coal
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars after being filled.

56. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars at Mine Yard No. 204

IDNO:
002022
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars at Mine Yard No. 204
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars after being filled.
A Chesapeake and Ohio coal car, corn shocks in the background.

57. Loaded Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car

IDNO:
002024
Title:
Loaded Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car
Description:
A Chesapeake and Ohio coal car, corn shocks in the background.

58. Coal Car Loaded with Champion 3/4 Coal, a Type of Coal from the Pittsburgh Coal Company

IDNO:
002025
Title:
Coal Car Loaded with Champion 3/4 Coal, a Type of Coal from the Pittsburgh Coal Company
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.'

59. White Oak Stove Size Coal in Coal Car

IDNO:
002026
Title:
White Oak Stove Size Coal in Coal Car
Description:
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.'
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.'

60. White Oak Coal

IDNO:
002027
Title:
White Oak Coal
Description:
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.'
Coal car at the No. 34 Mine.

61. Loaded Coal Car at Mine No. 34

IDNO:
002029
Title:
Loaded Coal Car at Mine No. 34
Date:
1924/10/01
Description:
Coal car at the No. 34 Mine.
Piles of coal with a filled coal car in the background.

62. Piles of Coal and Filled Coal Car

IDNO:
002030
Title:
Piles of Coal and Filled Coal Car
Description:
Piles of coal with a filled coal car in the background.
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.<br />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 to small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every car leaving a White Oak 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.

63. Summerlee Mine

IDNO:
002031
Title:
Summerlee Mine
Description:
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 to small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every car leaving a White Oak 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.
Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background.

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

IDNO:
002032
Title:
Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background.
A string of coal cars being loaded.

65. Coal Cars Being Loaded

IDNO:
002033
Title:
Coal Cars Being Loaded
Description:
A string of 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.

66. Pure Coal at the Preparation Plan

IDNO:
002034
Title:
Pure Coal at the Preparation Plan
Description:
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.
Coal car being filled with coal.

67. Loaded Coal Car

IDNO:
002035
Title:
Loaded Coal Car
Description:
Coal car being filled with coal.
Close up of coal in a train car.

68. Fully Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002039
Title:
Fully Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Close up of coal in a train car.

69. Pike Floyd Stove Coal at Dock 5

IDNO:
002040
Title:
Pike Floyd Stove Coal at Dock 5
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars coming out of a loading dock at mine 207.

70. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars at Mine 207

IDNO:
002042
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars at Mine 207
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars coming out of a loading dock at mine 207.
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal train cars in front of a community of houses.

71. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars in Front of Houses

IDNO:
002043
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars in Front of Houses
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal train cars in front of a community of houses.

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

IDNO:
002044
Title:
Railroad Coal Cars at a Tipple next to a River with Tracks for Coal Carts in the Foreground
Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.

73. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002045
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.
Virginian and C&amp;O coal trains outside of a coal town.

74. Virginian and Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Passing By Miner's Houses

IDNO:
002046
Title:
Virginian and Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Passing By Miner's Houses
Description:
Virginian and C&amp;O coal trains outside of a coal town.
Notice, Permission is granted to reproduce this photograph only on condition that each reproduction shall bear the following credit line: Photograph by Norfolk and Western Railway.

75. Norfolk and Western Coal Hopper Unloading; Possibly Lamberts Point, Va.

IDNO:
002078
Title:
Norfolk and Western Coal Hopper Unloading; Possibly Lamberts Point, Va.
Date:
ca.1947
Description:
Notice, Permission is granted to reproduce this photograph only on condition that each reproduction shall bear the following credit line: Photograph by Norfolk and Western Railway.

76. Towboats and Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

IDNO:
002117
Title:
Towboats and Coal Barges on an Appalachian River

77. Coal in Rail Road Car

IDNO:
002122
Title:
Coal in Rail Road Car

78. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002123
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal
Champion coal

79. Champion Coal Workers Use the Self Unloading-Power Chute, Univeyor Truck Delivery System, Stoker Coal

IDNO:
002131
Title:
Champion Coal Workers Use the Self Unloading-Power Chute, Univeyor Truck Delivery System, Stoker Coal
Description:
Champion coal

80. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Loaded with Miller's Creek Block

IDNO:
002148
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Loaded with Miller's Creek Block
Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

81. Coal Preparation Plant Yard

IDNO:
002170
Title:
Coal Preparation Plant Yard
Description:
Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.
A pile of coal in a coal car.

82. Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal

IDNO:
002186
Title:
Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal
Description:
A pile of coal in a coal car.

83. Coal Cargo Ship at Sea, Hampton Roads

IDNO:
002187
Title:
Coal Cargo Ship at Sea, Hampton Roads
Consolidation Coal Company Trucks and a crane on a bridge over piles of coal.

84. Phillips Down Station, Coal Storage

IDNO:
002310
Title:
Phillips Down Station, Coal Storage
Date:
1948/01/26
Description:
Consolidation Coal Company Trucks and a crane on a bridge over piles of coal.
Coal barge on river being filled during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

85. Coal Barge Being Loaded, Coal City Tow Boat on the River in Background.

IDNO:
002317
Title:
Coal Barge Being Loaded, Coal City Tow Boat on the River in Background.
Date:
1948
Description:
Coal barge on river being filled during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.
Aerial view of Pierce, W. Va. Davis Coal and Coke Company. Part of headframe, miner's houses, railroad tracks, and coal cars visibile.

86. View of Pierce W.Va. from Headframe, Davis Coal and Coke Company

IDNO:
002384
Title:
View of Pierce W.Va. from Headframe, Davis Coal and Coke Company
Description:
Aerial view of Pierce, W. Va. Davis Coal and Coke Company. Part of headframe, miner's houses, railroad tracks, and coal cars visibile.

87. Coal Car, Western Maryland Railroad

IDNO:
002388
Title:
Coal Car, Western Maryland Railroad
Date:
1936/08/04
Filled coal cars being driven out of mine during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

88. Electric Mine Cars at Arkwright Mine, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip

IDNO:
002443
Title:
Electric Mine Cars at Arkwright Mine, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company Inspection Trip
Date:
ca. 1948
Description:
Filled coal cars being driven out of mine during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.
Miner operates a train of loaded cars from the Mathies Mine.

89. Transporting Loaded Mine Cars from Mathies Coal Mine

IDNO:
002552
Title:
Transporting Loaded Mine Cars from Mathies Coal Mine
Description:
Miner operates a train of loaded cars from the Mathies Mine.
Miner drives a train of loaded coal cars from the entrance of Mathies Mine to the preparation plant.

90. Coal Moves from the Mathies Coal Mine to the Preparation Plant

IDNO:
002554
Title:
Coal Moves from the Mathies Coal Mine to the Preparation Plant
Description:
Miner drives a train of loaded coal cars from the entrance of Mathies Mine to the preparation plant.
Miner operates a train of coal cars loaded with raw coal departing from Consol Mine No. 32.

91. Raw Coal Exit at Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32

IDNO:
002559
Title:
Raw Coal Exit at Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32
Description:
Miner operates a train of coal cars loaded with raw coal departing from Consol Mine No. 32.
A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.

92. Coal Cars Exiting a Mine

IDNO:
002581
Title:
Coal Cars Exiting a Mine
Description:
A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.

93. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002592
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
A miner operates a full coal cart down the track coming from Mathies Mine.

94. Coal Train Emerging from Mathies Mine

IDNO:
002593
Title:
Coal Train Emerging from Mathies Mine
Description:
A miner operates a full coal cart down the track coming from Mathies Mine.
Picture was taken from the West Virginia Review, Vol. 4, Oct. 1926 - Sept. 1927. The article was titled 'Building a Mining Community' by C.A. Cabell, President of Carbon Fuel Company, April, 1927. The picture is on page 209, April 1927 issue.

95. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002602
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Date:
ca. 1927
Description:
Picture was taken from the West Virginia Review, Vol. 4, Oct. 1926 - Sept. 1927. The article was titled 'Building a Mining Community' by C.A. Cabell, President of Carbon Fuel Company, April, 1927. The picture is on page 209, April 1927 issue.
1-Mining machine, electrically operated, 2. Electric locomotive and coal car train leaving mine, 3. Shaker screen for sorting coal according to size, 4. Coal powerhouse and tipple.

96. Coal Mining, Modern Methods of Production

IDNO:
002704
Title:
Coal Mining, Modern Methods of Production
Description:
1-Mining machine, electrically operated, 2. Electric locomotive and coal car train leaving mine, 3. Shaker screen for sorting coal according to size, 4. Coal powerhouse and tipple.