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Miner shoveling coal as it pours into a coal car.

1. Loading Coal Cars

2. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

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

3. Miner Walking Along Tracks Next to Coal Carts

Men carrying cans along track with coal cars.

4. Miner Walking Past Loaded Coal Cars

5. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

'This miner has just completed loading a mine oar of coal weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty oar.  An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these oars in one day.  This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment.  The number of posts shown in this picture indi- again [sic] the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

6. Miner and Loaded Mine Car