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Caption reads, 'Good dependable motive power is just as necessary in a coal mine as on a railroad. This picture shows one of White Oaks ten ton electric locomotives used to haul loads and distribute 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 the main line locomotives, who haul to the tipple or shaft bottom. A large producing mine uses fifteen and twenty locomotives and five hundred mine oars in maintaining production.'

1. White Oak Ten Ton Electric Locomotive and Crew

Miner driving an electric locomotive in a Consol Coal Yard in W. Va.

2. Electric Locomotive in a Consolidation Coal Company Yard in W. Va.

Two miners riding a electric locomotive outside of a mine during the winter.

3. Miners on an Electric Locomotive

Miner walking next to coal carts outside of mine.

4. Coal Carts Entering and Leaving a Fayette County Mine

Picture of a man driving the No. 15 electric differential locomotive of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, at Mine No. 32, W. Va.

5. Miner Driving Electric Differential Locomotive No. 15 at Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32

Filled coal carts leaving the mines in Carbon, W. Va.

6. Coal As It Came From the Mines, Carbon, W. Va.

Filled coal carts leaving the Mathies Mine enroute to the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. Preparation Plant. Copy Print by 'Judge' of good pictures, 954 Liberty Ave. GR. 1-4288. AT. 1-3834.

7. Raw Coal Enroute to Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

Vandivert J33#5-7--Haulage. Mine locomotive operator backing cut of cars into unloading yard. Note well-kept safety fence and grounds. Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va. Original photo August 1948, copy negative Jan. 1951. Use in 1950 BCI Annual, Page 15.

8. Locomotive Operator Backing Cut of Cars into Unloading Yard at Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Owings, W. Va.

Loaded coal cars outsie of an unknown mine. Credit must be give to William Vandivert, 21 East Tenth St., New York 3, N.Y.

9. Loaded Coal Cars

Filled coal cars outside of an unknown mine. Credit must be give to William Vandivert, 21 East Tenth St., New York 3, N.Y.

10. Loaded Coal Cars

Electric Locomotive No. 15 pulling coal through yard at Consol Mine No. 32 in W. Va. Bituminous Coal Institute, Aug, 1948, 320 Southern Bldg., Washington 5, D.C.

11. Miner in Electric Locomotive No. 15 Hauling Coal Carts through Consolidation Coal Company W. Va. Mine Yard

Miner in electric locomotive No. 15 hauling loaded coal cars on one track, while another miner inspects loaded coal carts on another track in a Consoldiation Coal Company, W. Va. mine yard.

12. Modern Transportation with 10-ton Steel Mine Cars, Consolidation Coal Company

Miner in electric locomotive at the Willow Grove Haulageway, Pittsburgh Consol. Coal Co.

13. Miner Operates an Electric Locomotive in the Willow Grove Haulageway, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

This trip of loaded cars contain mine run coal, ready to be dumped, that 'White Oak' is proud to put its trade mark on as a stamp of approval. It has received every care in mining, shooting and transportation that can possibly be given any coal up to the point where it is ready to be sized and loaded into railroad cars. This coal, due to careful shooting, is not friable but firm and will handle in railroad cars through to destination with minimum of degradation.

14. Miner and Loaded Mine Cars

Postcard of an electric locomotive carrying coal and miners.

15. Electric Locomotive Hauls Miners and Filled Coal Carts

An electric locomotive carrying coal and miners outside of the mine.

16. Electric Locomotive Hauls Miners and Filled Coal Carts

Miners standing next to coal carts and a locomotive. John Williams/Coal Life Project.

17. Miners Hauling Coal with an Old Mine Locomotive

Vance, a 15 years old trapper boy, whose job it was to open and closed the door, allowing mine trains to enter and exit. Vance earned $1.60 a week.

18. Coal Mine Trapper Boy, Harrison County, W. Va.