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A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'

1. Coal Mine Tipple

Tipple and tracks with filled RR cars present.

2. Tipple at Consolidation Coal Company Williams Mine

Tipple with filled RR cars.

3. Consolidation Coal Company Fairmont Tipple

Oakwood Steel Tipple loading coal cars.  Men standing on the coal in the cars.

4. Oakwood Mine Tipple

"Mine cars with 6 to 8 tons of raw R/M moving to rotary dump -Arkwright."

5. Tipple and Coal Cars at Arkwright Mine

Filled railroad cars at the Collins Colliery Tipple. There is a water reservoir in the background.

6. Collins Colliery Tipple

Coal cars going under tipple, Cranberry or Summerlee Mine.

7. Coal Tipple

Two men walking away from either Cranberry or Summerlee tipple loading coal cars.

8. Coal Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars full of coal.

9. Loaded Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry

10. Loaded Coal Cars Leaving the Mine at Rosemont or Flemington, W. Va.

11. Loaded Coal Cars Leaving the Mine at Rosemont or Flemington, W. Va.

"Looking west on tramroad showing mine cars loaded with coal, head house, conveyor line, railroad tipple, river tipple and Kanawha River."

12. View of Tramroad Looking West, Island Creek Coal Company

13. Conveyor Line to River Tipple, Coal Barges and Kanawha River, Island Creek Coal Company

"Loading booms, lowered to level of track. The coal drops between the rails to a hopper below from which point a conveyor carries the coal to the river tipple and barges."

14. Loading Booms, Island Creek Coal Company

15. Coal Cars beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

16. View from Coal Barge, Island Creek Coal Company

17. Coal Barges, Island Creek Coal Company

18. Coal Car beside Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

19. Cars Feeding Into Tipple, No. 3 Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

20. No. 6 Loading Lump Coal from Boom, Island Creek Coal Company

Mine workers are posed next to the loading boom.

21. No. 7 Loading Boom, Island Creek Coal Company

22. No. 2 Tipple, Island Creek Coal Company

23. No. 22 Planner, Island Creek Coal Company

Male workers are standing around examining machinery in this portrait.

24. No. 22 Planner, Island Creek Coal Company

Men are sitting on the front of a coal car. Both men are wearing hats and smoking pipes. The man on the right is identified as Mr. H. Groos.

25. Men Posed on a Coal Car, Island Creek Coal Company

On the front: "Built by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation."On the back: "125'x 26'x6' 6" 40 barges. Woods Brothers Construction Company, Lincoln, Nebraska."

26. View of a Barge

27. Tipple and Train with Coal Cars, The Standard Pocahontas Coal Company

28. View of Tipple and Coal Cars, The Standard Pocahontas Coal Company

29. View of Mine No. 6, Island Creek Coal Company

30. View of Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

31. View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

32. View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

33. Back View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

34. Back View of Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Company

35. Coal Conveyors, Mine No. 25, Island Creek Coal Creek

36. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

37. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

38. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

39. Back View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

40. View of Mine No. 26, Island Creek Coal Company

41. View of a Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

42. View of a Mine, Island Creek Coal Company

43. Tipple, Mine No. 27, Island Creek Coal Company

44. Down Stream View of Furnace Foundation Piers and Walls, Island Creek Coal Company

45. View of Excavation for Footers, Island Creek Coal Company

46. View of Coal Barges, Island Creek Coal Company

47. View of Coal Barges, Island Creek Coal Company

48. View of Coal Barges, Island Creek Coal Company