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Two miners next to an electric locomotive.

1. Miner on Electric Locomotive

Miners on an electric locomotive used in hauling mine cars.

2. Electric Locomotive Used in Hauling Mine Cars

'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.'

3. Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive

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.

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

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

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