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Norfolk and Western coal car being loaded at a tipple.

1. Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004475
Title:
Coal Tipple
Date:
undated
Description:
Norfolk and Western coal car being loaded at a tipple.
Coal train going past houses.

2. Oswald Coal on the Move

IDNO:
001956
Title:
Oswald Coal on the Move
Date:
undated
Description:
Coal train going past houses.

3. Wrecked Railroad Flat Car

IDNO:
000996
Title:
Wrecked Railroad Flat Car
Date:
undated
Collapsed bridge and wreck of train box cars.

4. Collapsed Railroad Bridge, Babcock L. SB. Company

IDNO:
000148
Title:
Collapsed Railroad Bridge, Babcock L. SB. Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Collapsed bridge and wreck of train box cars.
Front view of a mill and stacks. C&O train cars in front.

5. Sawmill

IDNO:
000428
Title:
Sawmill
Date:
undated
Description:
Front view of a mill and stacks. C&O train cars in front.
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

6. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

IDNO:
004556
Title:
Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

7. Locomotive and Train With Pulp Cars

IDNO:
000633
Title:
Locomotive and Train With Pulp Cars
Date:
undated
Coal being loaded into train cars.

8. Egg Shaker Loading Boom, Crazen Coal and Coke Co., Elkhorn, W. Va.

IDNO:
003100
Title:
Egg Shaker Loading Boom, Crazen Coal and Coke Co., Elkhorn, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Coal being loaded into train cars.
Crane and crew members putting a railroad car back on the track.

9. Lifting Railroad Car Back onto Track with a Crane and Crew

IDNO:
000976
Title:
Lifting Railroad Car Back onto Track with a Crane and Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
Crane and crew members putting a railroad car back on the track.

10. Railroad Accident - Overturned Flat Car and Spilled Logs

IDNO:
000990
Title:
Railroad Accident - Overturned Flat Car and Spilled Logs
Date:
undated
Loaded coal cars outside preparation plant.

11. Coal Cars Outside of Preparation Plant

IDNO:
002001
Title:
Coal Cars Outside of Preparation Plant
Date:
undated
Description:
Loaded coal cars outside preparation plant.

12. Locomotive Steaming Down Tracks

IDNO:
026170
Title:
Locomotive Steaming Down Tracks
Date:
undated
A photograph of open train cars being loaded with coal.

13. Coal Cars

IDNO:
028813
Title:
Coal Cars
Date:
undated
Description:
A photograph of open train cars being loaded with coal.
Notice, 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.

14. Norfolk and Western Coal Hopper Unloading; Possibly Lamberts Point, Va.

IDNO:
002078
Title:
Norfolk and Western Coal Hopper Unloading; Possibly Lamberts Point, Va.
Date:
ca.1947
Description:
Notice, 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.
Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

15. Loaded Coal Car

IDNO:
004566
Title:
Loaded Coal Car
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.
Coal tipple of Eureka C&C. Large chute connected to tipple.

16. Coal Tipple of Eureka Coal and Coke Company

IDNO:
004466
Title:
Coal Tipple of Eureka Coal and Coke Company
Date:
ca. 1920?
Description:
Coal tipple of Eureka C&C. Large chute connected to tipple.
Freight and Passenger Train of the Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Company.

17. Freight and Passenger Train, Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Company

IDNO:
002049
Title:
Freight and Passenger Train, Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Company
Date:
ca. 1908
Description:
Freight and Passenger Train of the Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Company.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was one of the oldest railroads in the United States. It passed through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio. The two men are possible WVU students headed out of Morgantown.

18. Two Unidentified Men in Front of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Car

IDNO:
039782
Title:
Two Unidentified Men in Front of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Car
Date:
ca. 1898
Description:
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was one of the oldest railroads in the United States. It passed through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio. The two men are possible WVU students headed out of Morgantown.
Several well-dressed young men stand on the track next to a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Car. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was one of the oldest railroads in the U.S. It passed through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio. The men are probably West Virginia University students headed out of Morgantown.

19. Unidentified Men Pose Behind Railroad Car

IDNO:
039783
Title:
Unidentified Men Pose Behind Railroad Car
Date:
ca. 1898
Description:
Several well-dressed young men stand on the track next to a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Car. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was one of the oldest railroads in the U.S. It passed through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio. The men are probably West Virginia University students headed out of Morgantown.

20. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002000
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal
Date:
Undated
From WVU College of Mineral and Energy Resources Scrapbook.

21. Loaded Coal Cars and Mine Operation

IDNO:
028462
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars and Mine Operation
Date:
Undated
Description:
From WVU College of Mineral and Energy Resources Scrapbook.

22. Coke Being Emptied into a Railway Car, U. S. Steel Plant

IDNO:
002232
Title:
Coke Being Emptied into a Railway Car, U. S. Steel Plant
Date:
1964/09/01

23. Panoramic View Over Plant Site Showing Railroad Grading, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
035891
Title:
Panoramic View Over Plant Site Showing Railroad Grading, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1955/06/16

24. Panoramic View Over Plant Site Showing Railroad Grading, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
035892
Title:
Panoramic View Over Plant Site Showing Railroad Grading, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1955/06/16

25. Panoramic View Over Plant Site Showing Railroad Grading, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
035893
Title:
Panoramic View Over Plant Site Showing Railroad Grading, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1955/06/10

26. Loading Coal Car, Tipple No. 28, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
035879
Title:
Loading Coal Car, Tipple No. 28, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1953/02/23

27. Loading Coal Car, Tipple No. 28, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
035880
Title:
Loading Coal Car, Tipple No. 28, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1953/02/23
Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

28. Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004543
Title:
Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple
Date:
1952/04/20
Description:
Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.
Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

29. Skelton Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004553
Title:
Skelton Mine Tipple
Date:
1952/04/20
Description:
Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

30. Reading Railroad Ore Car No. 71529

IDNO:
032349
Title:
Reading Railroad Ore Car No. 71529
Date:
1938/05

31. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001979
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 50519 with other cars in background.

32. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001972
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05
Description:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 50519 with other cars in background.

33. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
002008
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05

34. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002016
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05

35. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001990
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05

36. Coal Cars Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002017
Title:
Coal Cars Loaded with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05

37. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001994
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05

38. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
002006
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05
A man walking along top of coal cars.

39. Railroad Worker Walks Along Tops of Filled Western Maryland Coal Cars

IDNO:
001970
Title:
Railroad Worker Walks Along Tops of Filled Western Maryland Coal Cars
Date:
1936/08/05
Description:
A man walking along top of coal cars.
Filled train cars of the Western Maryland Train Co.

40. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001965
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/05
Description:
Filled train cars of the Western Maryland Train Co.

41. Coal Car, Western Maryland Railroad

IDNO:
002388
Title:
Coal Car, Western Maryland Railroad
Date:
1936/08/04

42. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20165 Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001988
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20165 Filled with Coal
Date:
1936/08/04

43. View of Mine and Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036121
Title:
View of Mine and Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1934/01

44. View of Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036105
Title:
View of Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1925-1926
Coal car at the No. 34 Mine.

45. Loaded Coal Car at Mine No. 34

IDNO:
002029
Title:
Loaded Coal Car at Mine No. 34
Date:
1924/10/01
Description:
Coal car at the No. 34 Mine.

46. View of Construction, Mine No. 12, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036138
Title:
View of Construction, Mine No. 12, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1923/05/01
A West Virginia Short Line R.R. car 1057 built by American Car & Foundry Co. in Huntington, W. Va..

47. Shortline Railroad Car No. 1057 Built by American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington, W. Va.

IDNO:
025632
Title:
Shortline Railroad Car No. 1057 Built by American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
1901/06/16
Description:
A West Virginia Short Line R.R. car 1057 built by American Car & Foundry Co. in Huntington, W. Va..
Train car with bags of coal headed to Salaverry, Peru. Sent by the Davis Coal and Coke Co.

48. Davis Coal and Coke Export Car Filled with Bags of Davis Smithing Coal

IDNO:
001983
Title:
Davis Coal and Coke Export Car Filled with Bags of Davis Smithing Coal
Description:
Train car with bags of coal headed to Salaverry, Peru. Sent by the Davis Coal and Coke Co.
This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews. Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day.<br />Note how the cars are trimmed! What a neat appearance they present! Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed. Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows. Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of 'White Oak' coal. No detail is to small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every car leaving a White Oak Mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture.

49. Summerlee Mine

IDNO:
002031
Title:
Summerlee Mine
Description:
This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews. Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day.
Note how the cars are trimmed! What a neat appearance they present! Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed. Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows. Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of 'White Oak' coal. No detail is to small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every car leaving a White Oak Mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture.

50. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20049 Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001967
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20049 Filled with Coal

51. Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003335
Title:
Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant
Train cars line up below a coal shute, at the preparation plant.

52. Renton No. 3 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003475
Title:
Renton No. 3 Preparation Plant
Description:
Train cars line up below a coal shute, at the preparation plant.
Coal cars with a barn and houses in the background.

53. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001973
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Description:
Coal cars with a barn and houses in the background.

54. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001978
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Railroad Cars filled with coal lined up outside plant buildings.

55. Summerlee Mine Facilities and Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003407
Title:
Summerlee Mine Facilities and Preparation Plant
Description:
Railroad Cars filled with coal lined up outside plant buildings.

56. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 15951 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
001998
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 15951 Loaded with Coal

57. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002123
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal
A coal train lines up in front of the preparation plant.

58. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
003474
Title:
Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company
Description:
A coal train lines up in front of the preparation plant.

59. Coal Cars Filled with Different Grades of Coal

IDNO:
002021
Title:
Coal Cars Filled with Different Grades of Coal

60. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20049 Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001991
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20049 Filled with Coal

61. Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background

IDNO:
003425
Title:
Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background

62. Coal Car Loaded with Champion 3/4 Coal, a Type of Coal from the Pittsburgh Coal Company

IDNO:
002025
Title:
Coal Car Loaded with Champion 3/4 Coal, a Type of Coal from the Pittsburgh Coal Company
Scenic view of a community visible from the last Western Maryland coal car traveling past it.

63. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001975
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Description:
Scenic view of a community visible from the last Western Maryland coal car traveling past it.
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal train cars in front of a community of houses.

64. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars in Front of Houses

IDNO:
002043
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars in Front of Houses
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal train cars in front of a community of houses.
View of three coal cars. First coal car has 'No BRAKE' written on it.

65. Coal Train Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001963
Title:
Coal Train Filled with Coal
Description:
View of three coal cars. First coal car has 'No BRAKE' written on it.
Trains next to some houses and a store with cars parked in front of it.

66. Virginian Train Cars Loaded with Coal; Coal Company Store in Background

IDNO:
002011
Title:
Virginian Train Cars Loaded with Coal; Coal Company Store in Background
Description:
Trains next to some houses and a store with cars parked in front of it.
A Chesapeake and Ohio coal car, corn shocks in the background.

67. Loaded Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car

IDNO:
002024
Title:
Loaded Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car
Description:
A Chesapeake and Ohio coal car, corn shocks in the background.

68. Inspecting Western Maryland Coal Cars

IDNO:
001974
Title:
Inspecting Western Maryland Coal Cars
Filled Coal car with houses in background.

69. Loaded Western Maryland Coal Car

IDNO:
001969
Title:
Loaded Western Maryland Coal Car
Description:
Filled Coal car with houses in background.
Unidentified preparation plant.

70. Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003445
Title:
Preparation Plant
Description:
Unidentified preparation plant.
Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.

71. Coal Being Processed

IDNO:
002135
Title:
Coal Being Processed
Description:
Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.
Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.

72. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002045
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.
Car No. 50519 and 16311 with others around them.

73. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
002009
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal
Description:
Car No. 50519 and 16311 with others around them.

74. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002013
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19659 Loaded with Coal

75. Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001987
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Cars Filled with Coal

76. Norfolk and Western Railroad Cars at an Unidentified Coal Mine

IDNO:
003157
Title:
Norfolk and Western Railroad Cars at an Unidentified Coal Mine
Railroad cars filled with coal travel past a coal mining community.

77. Mine Run, White Oak Coal Company

IDNO:
004343
Title:
Mine Run, White Oak Coal Company
Description:
Railroad cars filled with coal travel past a coal mining community.
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Tipple loading a coal car. Man standing near the tipple.

78. Pittsburgh Coal Company, Mountor Mine No. 9 Tipple

IDNO:
004468
Title:
Pittsburgh Coal Company, Mountor Mine No. 9 Tipple
Description:
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Tipple loading a coal car. Man standing near the tipple.
Line of large coal buildings. Filled coal cars lined up outside as well.

79. Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background

IDNO:
003384
Title:
Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background
Description:
Line of large coal buildings. Filled coal cars lined up outside as well.
Close up of coal in a train car.

80. Fully Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002039
Title:
Fully Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Close up of coal in a train car.

81. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20165 Filled with Coal

IDNO:
001966
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 20165 Filled with Coal

82. Pietro Company Steamroller Flattening Road Bed

IDNO:
020551
Title:
Pietro Company Steamroller Flattening Road Bed
Railroad tracks run through the coal processing plant.

83. Renton No. 3 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003477
Title:
Renton No. 3 Preparation Plant
Description:
Railroad tracks run through the coal processing plant.
Large preparation plant with filled coal cars lining the outside.

84. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
003385
Title:
Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company
Description:
Large preparation plant with filled coal cars lining the outside.
Coal car being filled with coal.

85. Loaded Coal Car

IDNO:
002035
Title:
Loaded Coal Car
Description:
Coal car being filled with coal.
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Somers Mine Tipple. Standard Youghiogheny Gas Coal.

86. Somers Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004435
Title:
Somers Mine Tipple
Description:
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Somers Mine Tipple. Standard Youghiogheny Gas Coal.
Chesepeake and Ohio railroad car filled with stove coal.

87. Stove Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company

IDNO:
003500
Title:
Stove Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company
Description:
Chesepeake and Ohio railroad car filled with stove coal.
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with lump coal.

88. Lump Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company

IDNO:
003502
Title:
Lump Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with lump coal.
Western Maryland coal car with man on board.

89. Western Maryland Coal Car Awaiting Transportation

IDNO:
001955
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car Awaiting Transportation
Description:
Western Maryland coal car with man on board.
Filled coal cars outside of the Preparation Plant.

90. Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003369
Title:
Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant
Description:
Filled coal cars outside of the Preparation Plant.
Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background.

91. Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine

IDNO:
002032
Title:
Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background.
A pile of coal in a coal car.

92. Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal

IDNO:
002186
Title:
Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal
Description:
A pile of coal in a coal car.
Loaded coal cars. First car has 'No BRAKE' written on it.

93. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
001968
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Loaded coal cars. First car has 'No BRAKE' written on it.
Filled coal car with houses visible in the background.

94. Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19120 Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002014
Title:
Western Maryland Coal Car No. 19120 Loaded with Coal
Description:
Filled coal car with houses visible in the background.
Man stands atop coal loaded in a railroad gondola as it is loaded at a tipple. W. Va. Industry and Pub. Comm.

95. Loading Coal into Railroad Gondolas

IDNO:
004375
Title:
Loading Coal into Railroad Gondolas
Description:
Man stands atop coal loaded in a railroad gondola as it is loaded at a tipple. W. Va. Industry and Pub. Comm.
Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.

96. Coal Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004548
Title:
Coal Mine Tipple
Description:
Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.