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- IDNO:
- 002181
- Title:
- Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1950/10
- Description:
- Caption on back reads, 'Making a cut in the coal face is this Mastodon of the machine age - an underground cutter. Rubber tired for mobility, and mounting a 9-foot cutting blade armed with whirring steel bits, it can cut a full 360 degree arc. This and similar machines give America's bituminous coal mines almost unlimited capacity for production.'
- IDNO:
- 003034
- Title:
- Shuttle Car at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, at Owings, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1950/10
- Description:
- Miner driving a shuttle car. 'Shuttle car, fully loaded, rumbles around a curve on its way to the loading terminal where it will unload into mine cars. Such mechanized equipment has a unit cost of about $20,000. Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Co., Owings, W. Va.'