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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.

1. 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.
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.

2. 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.
Ward boiler being transported on a train. Built by Charles Ward Engineering Works in Charleston, West Virginia.

3. Ward Boiler Being Transported on Train

IDNO:
038724
Title:
Ward Boiler Being Transported on Train
Description:
Ward boiler being transported on a train. Built by Charles Ward Engineering Works in Charleston, West Virginia.

4. 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

5. View of Mine and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036135
Title:
View of Mine and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

6. View of Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036134
Title:
View of Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

7. View of Mine and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036132
Title:
View of Mine and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

8. Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036125
Title:
Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

9. 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
On the back: " #9 at 7."

10. View of House and Coal Cars in Coal Town, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036120
Title:
View of House and Coal Cars in Coal Town, Island Creek Coal Company
Description:
On the back: " #9 at 7."

11. View of House and Coal Cars in Coal Town, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036119
Title:
View of House and Coal Cars in Coal Town, Island Creek Coal Company

12. View of Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036105
Title:
View of Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company
Date:
1925-1926

13. View of Coal Conveyor and Coal Cart, Pond Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036099
Title:
View of Coal Conveyor and Coal Cart, Pond Creek Coal Company

14. View of Tipple, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company

IDNO:
036096
Title:
View of Tipple, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company

15. View of Tipple, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company

IDNO:
036085
Title:
View of Tipple, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company

16. Tipple and Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036023
Title:
Tipple and Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

17. View of Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036022
Title:
View of Coal Conveyor, Island Creek Coal Company

18. Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036020
Title:
Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

19. Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036019
Title:
Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

20. Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036017
Title:
Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

21. Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036014
Title:
Tipple and Coal Cars, Island Creek Coal Company

22. View from Above of Tipple, Parking Lot, and Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
036011
Title:
View from Above of Tipple, Parking Lot, and Railroad Tracks, Island Creek Coal Company

23. Mine No. 3 Elkhorn, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company

IDNO:
035952
Title:
Mine No. 3 Elkhorn, Pond Creek Pocahontas Company

24. View of Crusher Facilities Before Elevator Installation

IDNO:
035948
Title:
View of Crusher Facilities Before Elevator Installation

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. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Locomotive Passing Through Unidentified Town

IDNO:
033131
Title:
Locomotive Passing Through Unidentified Town

31. Locomotive Passing Through Unidentified Town

IDNO:
033129
Title:
Locomotive Passing Through Unidentified Town

32. Locomotive Passing Through Unidentified Town

IDNO:
033128
Title:
Locomotive Passing Through Unidentified Town

33. Lawrence Pietro and Friend Under a Train

IDNO:
032466
Title:
Lawrence Pietro and Friend Under a Train

34. Reading Railroad Ore Car No. 71529

IDNO:
032349
Title:
Reading Railroad Ore Car No. 71529
Date:
1938/05
A photograph of open train cars being loaded with coal.

35. Coal Cars

IDNO:
028813
Title:
Coal Cars
Date:
undated
Description:
A photograph of open train cars being loaded with coal.
From WVU College of Mineral and Energy Resources Scrapbook.

36. 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.

37. Locomotive Steaming Down Tracks

IDNO:
026170
Title:
Locomotive Steaming Down Tracks
Date:
undated
Possibly near Morgantown.

38. Baltimore and Ohio Trains on Tracks

IDNO:
025947
Title:
Baltimore and Ohio Trains on Tracks
Description:
Possibly near Morgantown.
'This car has its W. Va. connection because it was built by the Ensign Manufacturing Company in Huntington. The Eastern Kentucky Railroad existed from 1865 until 1933 and ran from Riverton Greenup Ky. through Grayson County Ky. to Webbville Lawrence County Ky. on the Wayne County West Virginia border.'

39. Eastern Kentucky Railroad No. 53

IDNO:
025647
Title:
Eastern Kentucky Railroad No. 53
Description:
'This car has its W. Va. connection because it was built by the Ensign Manufacturing Company in Huntington. The Eastern Kentucky Railroad existed from 1865 until 1933 and ran from Riverton Greenup Ky. through Grayson County Ky. to Webbville Lawrence County Ky. on the Wayne County West Virginia border.'
'Built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co. in Huntington, W. Va. (Cabell County) April 19, 1899. It is important to note that both the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio were owned by Collis P. Huntington and seeing railroad equipment to be used out West but built in Huntington was not uncommon.'

40. Morgan's Lousiana and Texas--Southern Pacific Boxcar 30401

IDNO:
025646
Title:
Morgan's Lousiana and Texas--Southern Pacific Boxcar 30401
Description:
'Built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co. in Huntington, W. Va. (Cabell County) April 19, 1899. It is important to note that both the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio were owned by Collis P. Huntington and seeing railroad equipment to be used out West but built in Huntington was not uncommon.'
A West Virginia Short Line R.R. car 1057 built by American Car & Foundry Co. in Huntington, W. Va..

41. 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..

42. Ohio River Railroad Car No. 4041 built by Ensign MFG Co. in Huntington, W. Va..

IDNO:
025631
Title:
Ohio River Railroad Car No. 4041 built by Ensign MFG Co. in Huntington, W. Va..
Built by Ensign MFG. Co., Huntington, W. Va..

43. Ohio River Railroad Car 2701 of West Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee Lumber Line

IDNO:
025630
Title:
Ohio River Railroad Car 2701 of West Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee Lumber Line
Description:
Built by Ensign MFG. Co., Huntington, W. Va..

44. Train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad along a River

IDNO:
025596
Title:
Train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad along a River
A View of the Norfolk and Western Railway between a river and a rock face.

45. Train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad

IDNO:
025588
Title:
Train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Description:
A View of the Norfolk and Western Railway between a river and a rock face.

46. Lumber on Norfolk and Western Railway Cars

IDNO:
025587
Title:
Lumber on Norfolk and Western Railway Cars

47. Pietro Company Steamroller Flattening Road Bed

IDNO:
020551
Title:
Pietro Company Steamroller Flattening Road Bed
Large group of train cars at an industrial area beside a river. Photograph from Joe Ozanic scrapbook.

48. Train Cars at Industrial Area

IDNO:
004715
Title:
Train Cars at Industrial Area
Description:
Large group of train cars at an industrial area beside a river. Photograph from Joe Ozanic scrapbook.
Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.

49. Loaded Coal Car

IDNO:
004566
Title:
Loaded Coal Car
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Tipple filling coal car with large pieces of coal.
Coal cars on train tracks.

50. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
004557
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Coal cars on train tracks.
Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

51. 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.
Skelton Mine tipple loading coal cars.

52. Skelton Mine Tipple

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

53. Coal Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004548
Title:
Coal Mine Tipple
Description:
Tipple loading coal mining cars are shown.
Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.

54. Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars

IDNO:
004545
Title:
Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars
Description:
Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.
Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

55. 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.
Norfolk and Western coal car being loaded at a tipple.

56. Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004475
Title:
Coal Tipple
Date:
undated
Description:
Norfolk and Western coal car being loaded at a tipple.
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Tipple loading a coal car. Man standing near the tipple.

57. 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.
Coal tipple of Eureka C&C. Large chute connected to tipple.

58. 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.

59. Loaded Coal Car

IDNO:
004450
Title:
Loaded Coal Car
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Somers Mine Tipple. Standard Youghiogheny Gas Coal.

60. Somers Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004435
Title:
Somers Mine Tipple
Description:
Pittsburgh Coal Co. Somers Mine Tipple. Standard Youghiogheny Gas Coal.
Man stands atop coal loaded in a railroad gondola as it is loaded at a tipple. W. Va. Industry and Pub. Comm.

61. 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.
Railroad cars filled with coal travel past a coal mining community.

62. 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.
Frances Bennett is standing under a coal car.

63. Bennett, Frances Standing Under Railroad Car

IDNO:
003921
Title:
Bennett, Frances Standing Under Railroad Car
Description:
Frances Bennett is standing under a coal car.
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with lump coal.

64. 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.
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with egg coal.

65. Egg Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company

IDNO:
003501
Title:
Egg Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with egg coal.
Chesepeake and Ohio railroad car filled with stove coal.

66. 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 cars filled with three different types of coal.

67. Lump, Egg, and Stove Coal

IDNO:
003499
Title:
Lump, Egg, and Stove Coal
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars filled with three different types of coal.
Railroad tracks run through the coal processing plant.

68. Renton No. 3 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003477
Title:
Renton No. 3 Preparation Plant
Description:
Railroad tracks run through the coal processing plant.
Train cars line up below a coal shute, at the preparation plant.

69. 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.
A coal train lines up in front of the preparation plant.

70. 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.
A processing plant at work. Baltimore and Ohio railroad cars beneath the plant.

71. Consol No. 9 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003472
Title:
Consol No. 9 Preparation Plant
Description:
A processing plant at work. Baltimore and Ohio railroad cars beneath the plant.
Unidentified preparation plant.

72. Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003445
Title:
Preparation Plant
Description:
Unidentified preparation plant.

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

IDNO:
003425
Title:
Disco Plant with Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant in Background
Mine buildings and filled coal cars.

74. Coal Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003414
Title:
Coal Preparation Plant
Description:
Mine buildings and filled coal cars.
Railroad Cars filled with coal lined up outside plant buildings.

75. 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.
Plant with filled Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars beside of it.

76. Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003406
Title:
Preparation Plant
Description:
Plant with filled Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars beside of it.
Large preparation plant with filled coal cars lining the outside.

77. 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.
Line of large coal buildings. Filled coal cars lined up outside as well.

78. 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.
Filled coal cars are lined up outside of the Williams Preparation Plant.

79. Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company

IDNO:
003378
Title:
Williams Preparation Plant, Consolidation Coal Company
Description:
Filled coal cars are lined up outside of the Williams Preparation Plant.
Filled coal cars outside of the Preparation Plant.

80. Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003369
Title:
Champion No. 1 Preparation Plant
Description:
Filled coal cars outside of the Preparation Plant.

81. Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003335
Title:
Loading Coal at a Coal Preparation Plant

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

IDNO:
003157
Title:
Norfolk and Western Railroad Cars at an Unidentified Coal Mine
Coal being loaded into train cars.

83. 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.
Miner works with coke ovens while a loading machine fills railroad cars.

84. Miners Working at Coke Ovens

IDNO:
003012
Title:
Miners Working at Coke Ovens
Description:
Miner works with coke ovens while a loading machine fills railroad cars.

85. Coal Car, Western Maryland Railroad

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

86. 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
A pile of coal in a coal car.

87. Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal

IDNO:
002186
Title:
Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal
Description:
A pile of coal in a coal car.
Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

88. Coal Preparation Plant Yard

IDNO:
002170
Title:
Coal Preparation Plant Yard
Description:
Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

89. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Loaded with Miller's Creek Block

IDNO:
002148
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Loaded with Miller's Creek Block
Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.

90. Coal Being Processed

IDNO:
002135
Title:
Coal Being Processed
Description:
Coal in cars inside of a plant being processed.

91. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

IDNO:
002123
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

92. Coal in Rail Road Car

IDNO:
002122
Title:
Coal in Rail Road Car
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.

93. 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.
Freight and Passenger Train of the Piney River and Paint Creek Railroad Company.

94. 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.
Virginian and C&O coal trains outside of a coal town.

95. Virginian and Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Passing By Miner's Houses

IDNO:
002046
Title:
Virginian and Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Passing By Miner's Houses
Description:
Virginian and C&O coal trains outside of a coal town.
Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.

96. Loaded Coal Cars

IDNO:
002045
Title:
Loaded Coal Cars
Description:
Man riding in a coal car with loading facility in background.