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Rear end of loaded coal car in an underground mine.

169. Shuttle Car Being Loaded by Mechanical Loader

IDNO:
002705
Title:
Shuttle Car Being Loaded by Mechanical Loader
Description:
Rear end of loaded coal car in an underground mine.
'All ready-Hoist! This is an end view of one of our new steel mine cars on a cage at one of the White Oak Shaft mines, and the signal has just been given to hoist it to the surface--450 feet up! These electric equipped hoists can hoist a car every twenty seconds and dump it! The cars are placed on the cages automatically by creeper chains and car stops. One man operates the signals and car stops and chains.'

170. Steel Mine Car at One of the White Oak Shaft Mines

IDNO:
002706
Title:
Steel Mine Car at One of the White Oak Shaft Mines
Description:
'All ready-Hoist! This is an end view of one of our new steel mine cars on a cage at one of the White Oak Shaft mines, and the signal has just been given to hoist it to the surface--450 feet up! These electric equipped hoists can hoist a car every twenty seconds and dump it! The cars are placed on the cages automatically by creeper chains and car stops. One man operates the signals and car stops and chains.'
'Coal at all White Oak shafts mines is handled on self dumping cages, which handle the coal uniformly and with a minimum of breakage. Note how evenly the coal is flowing from the mine car. Much more rapid of course than the picture indicates, but it shows how well designed the equipment must be to handle the coal in such splendid manner.'

171. Self Dumping Cages

IDNO:
002708
Title:
Self Dumping Cages
Description:
'Coal at all White Oak shafts mines is handled on self dumping cages, which handle the coal uniformly and with a minimum of breakage. Note how evenly the coal is flowing from the mine car. Much more rapid of course than the picture indicates, but it shows how well designed the equipment must be to handle the coal in such splendid manner.'
Miner watches as coal loads into a shuttle car.

172. Shuttle Car Being Loaded

IDNO:
002711
Title:
Shuttle Car Being Loaded
Description:
Miner watches as coal loads into a shuttle car.
Coal cutting machine digs into the coal seam.

173. Coal Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002713
Title:
Coal Cutting Machine
Description:
Coal cutting machine digs into the coal seam.
Continuous mining machine at work.

174. Continuous Miner in a Tunnel Approximately 4 Feet High

IDNO:
002714
Title:
Continuous Miner in a Tunnel Approximately 4 Feet High
Description:
Continuous mining machine at work.

175. Jeffrey Loading Machine Emptying Coal into a New 11-Ton Steel Mine Car at Mine No. 32

IDNO:
002715
Title:
Jeffrey Loading Machine Emptying Coal into a New 11-Ton Steel Mine Car at Mine No. 32
Date:
1946/01/19

176. Loading Coal in an Unidentified MIne

IDNO:
002716
Title:
Loading Coal in an Unidentified MIne
Miner watches as coal loads into a shuttle car.

177. Shuttle Car Being Loaded

IDNO:
002717
Title:
Shuttle Car Being Loaded
Description:
Miner watches as coal loads into a shuttle car.
Shuttle car in an underground mine, loaded with coal.

178. Loaded Shuttle Car

IDNO:
002719
Title:
Loaded Shuttle Car
Description:
Shuttle car in an underground mine, loaded with coal.

179. Miners Work on a Loading Machine Inside a Mine

IDNO:
002720
Title:
Miners Work on a Loading Machine Inside a Mine
'Modified longwall mining with a German coal planer. Progress report 2: Completion of mining in three adjacent panels in the Pocahontas no. 4 coal bed, Helen, W. Va.' Please give credit to the Bureau of Mines, United States, Department of Interior.

180. Interior of a Coal Mine with Roof Supports Along Longwall Face

IDNO:
002721
Title:
Interior of a Coal Mine with Roof Supports Along Longwall Face
Description:
'Modified longwall mining with a German coal planer. Progress report 2: Completion of mining in three adjacent panels in the Pocahontas no. 4 coal bed, Helen, W. Va.' Please give credit to the Bureau of Mines, United States, Department of Interior.