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Photo from WVU College of Mineral and Energy Resources Scrapbook.

1. Coal Train Approaching Mine Entrance Tunnel

Photo from WVU College of Mineral Resources Scrapbook

2. Entrance to Mine with Sign

A photograph of an open car coal mine train crossing a bridge.

3. Coal Mine Train

Island Creek Coal Sales Co. Cincinnati, Ohio.

4. Main Line Locomotive in Number Four Coal Mine

A photograph of coal mine train cars with men in the background.

5. Coal Train

A photograph of two men inspecting a coal mine train.

6. Coal Train

Miners in Safety Cars for transportation into the mine, Winding Gulf Collieries.

7. Miners in Safety Cars for Transportation into the Mine, Winding Gulf Collieries

8. Miners in Safety Cars for Transportation into the Mine, Winding Gulf Collieries

9. Miner Walking on Tracks Between Coal Cars

Coal miners riding in shuttle cars, exiting the Williams River Mine, Webster County, W. Va.

10. Coal Miners Exiting the Gauley Mountain Coal Company's Williams River Mine via Shuttle Cars, Webster County, W. Va.

Filled coal cars being driven out of mine during a Consolidation Coal Co. Inspection trip.

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

Miners ready to go to work in mine cars.

12. Miners about to Enter Mine in Mine Cars, Possibly Winding Gulf Collieries

Photograph postcard from C.H. Mead Coal Company of transportation of coal from the mine.

13. Mine Trip, Raleigh County, W. Va.

Coal carts leaving a mine entrance.

14. Coal Mine Entrance, Fairmont Region, Marion County, W. Va.

'A day shift worker at New River Coal Co.'s Stanaford mine mans a locomotive hauling supplies into a working section of the underground  mine Monday. 160,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America may walk off the job when the present contract runs out midnight Thursday unless a new contract is accepted (AP Laserphoto) James Samsell1121100str) 1981."

15. Miners Working, Beckley, W. Va.

Two men stand beside rail cars.  A cart a motor sits in  front of them.

16. Miners Stand by Steel Mine Railway Cars

Electric mine locomotive at Mathies Coal mine, Finleyville, PA.

17. G-E 50 Ton Electric Mine Locomotive in Operation at Mathies Coal Mine, Finleyville, Pa.

Coal filled mine cars and miners at the Winding Gulf Collieries. Possibly Winding Gulf No. 4.

18. Coal Filled Mine Cars and Miners

A picture of railroad ties without the tracks.

19. Coal Mine Construction Site, Lynchburg Coal & Coke Company

A photograph of a hillside of what appears to be a construction site for a railroad.

20. Stripped Hillside, Lynchburg Coal & Coke Company

A photograph of a hillside and what appears to be a construction site for a railroad.

21. Stripped Hillside, Lynchburg Coal & Coke Company

22. Skip Shaft, No. 22, Island Creek Coal Company

Miner riding on tram with one car spraying something onto the land around the tram. Kanawha County Geological Survey.

23. Winifrede Coal Seam, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Miners riding tram engines with company houses in the background; United Poca Coal Co., Crumpler, W. Va.

24. Miners Riding Mine Tram Engines, United Poca Coal Company, Crumpler, W. Va.

Men loading logs in coal carts.

25. Hauling Logs

26. Coal Shuttle Car in Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

Two miners ride the locomotive leading a train of filled coal cars.

27. Coal Train near Grafton, W. Va.

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.

28. Fully Loaded Coal Train Two Miles Underground

A miner operates a full coal cart out of the mine.

29. Entrance to Consolidation Coal Company, W. Va., Arkwright Mine

Miners stand next to a large locomotive at Jamison No. 9.

30. Jamison No. 9 Mine Locomotive

31. Interior of Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

Man in tram car in mine in the Winifrede Coal Seam, Kanawha County, W. Va. 'Geological Survey.'

32. Winifrede Coal Seam, Kanawha County, W. Va.

A mine locomotive of the Price Hill Colliery Co.

33. Miners and Mine Locomotive at Price Hill Colliery Company

34. Mine Official Operating a Mathies Mine Electric Locomotive

35. Miner Operating a Mathies Mine Electric Locomotive

Miners and a man in a suit pose for a portrait with a mine locomotive.

36. Mine Locomotive, Price Hill Colliery Company

A miner operates a full coal cart down the track coming from Mathies Mine.

37. Coal Train Emerging from Mathies Mine

Miners ride out of the mine in Boswell safety cars.

38. Boswell Safety Car, Thomas, W. Va.

39. Miner Inspecting Coal Cars Exiting the Mine

Miner operates a train of coal cars loaded with raw coal departing from Consol Mine No. 32.

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

41. Track Inside Jamison No. 9 Coal Mine

Coal car tracks inside of the mine.

42. Tracks in an Underground Mine

A coal cart from mine no. 32 of Consolidation Coal Co. is leaving with a full load.

43. 11-Ton Mine Cars of Raw Coal Enroute to Cleaning Plant

Twelve ton electric motor was used for hauling coal from the mines to the tipple. Merchants' Coal and Coke Co.'s at Tunnelton, Preston Co., W. Va.

44. Twelve Ton Electric Motor for Hauling Coal, Merchants' Coal and Coke Company, Tunnelton, Preston County, W. Va.

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.

45. Coal Mining, Modern Methods of Production

Miners on an electric locomotive used in hauling mine cars.

46. Electric Locomotive Used in Hauling Mine Cars

Miners and filled coal cars at the Scale House, Crane Creek Mine.

47. Scale House at Crane Creek

Miner operating the Railroad car loading control panel.

48. Railroad Car Loading Control Panel

49. Miner Driving Mathies Mine Electric Locomotive

A miner operates a cart full of coal exiting the mine.

50. Coal Cars Exiting a Mine

Coal carts on tracks and corridor openings in an underground mine in Monongalia County.

51. Modern Slope Bottom in Brock No. 4 Mine, Continental Coal Company, Monongalia County, W. Va.

Julius Blaney driving a coal cart with people in a coal mine.

52. Blaney, Julius, a Former Student, Operates a Coal Cart

Miner drives a train of loaded coal cars from the entrance of Mathies Mine to the preparation plant.

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

54. Visitors Riding Mine Cars Into Mine

55. Coal Shuttle in Jamison Mine No. 9

Two men riding on a electric locomotive.

56. Miners on an Electric Locomotive

Coal mining car on tracks.  Morgan Locomotive, used the third rail power system.  Notice power line located in center of track.  This eliminated the need for trolley wire and poles.

57. Morgan Locomotive

Men haul logs from tram cars.

58. Hauling Logs

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

One man drives an electric locomotive that transports the miners out of the mine.

60. Coal Miners in Carts Exiting Mine

Miner operates a train of loaded cars from the Mathies Mine.

61. Transporting Loaded Mine Cars from Mathies Coal Mine

Miners ride in a locomotive at Jamison No. 9.

62. Jamison No. 9 Mine Locomotive

Two miners next to an electric locomotive.

63. Miner on Electric Locomotive

Man driving a electric locomotive at the Mathies Mine, W. Va. Copy Print by 'Judge' of good pictures, 954 Liberty Ave. PGH. 22, PA. GR. 1-4288 AT. 1-3834. Reorder Number 29958-17.

64. Miner Driving Mathies Mine Electric Locomotive

Overcast, where two air currents cross in a mine, at the Jamison Mine No. 9 shaft bottom.

65. Overcast in Jamison No. 9 Mine Shaft Bottom

'An Electric Locomotive: Good dependable motive power is just as necessary in a coal mine as on a railroad. This picture shows on of White Oak's ten ton electric locomotives used to haul loads and distrubute empties in our mines. A crew consists of a motorman and brakeman, or trip rider, who pull loads from the working places to convenient sidings where they are picked up by main line locomotives, who haul to the tipple or shaft bottom. A large producing mine uses fifteen and twenty locomotives and five hundred mine cars in maintaining production.'

66. Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive

A man drives a locomotive hauling miners out of the Algoma mine.

67. Miners Exiting Mine

A view of miners on carts.

68. Miners at Work

69. Construction of Coal Conveyor and Tipple - Railroad Tracks being Laid Down

70. Construction of Coal Conveyor and Tipple - Railroad Tracks being Laid Down

71. Construction of Coal Conveyor and Tipple - Railroad Tracks being Laid Down

72. Portrait of Mine Worker Walking on Railroad Tracks, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company