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1. Cutting Coal by Machine

IDNO:
002695
Title:
Cutting Coal by Machine

2. Coal Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002696
Title:
Coal Cutting Machine
Miner operates a shuttle car that is loaded with coal.

3. Shuttle Car Being Loaded

IDNO:
002697
Title:
Shuttle Car Being Loaded
Description:
Miner operates a shuttle car that is loaded with coal.
Minre watches as coal pours into the shuttle car.

4. Shuttle Car Being Loaded

IDNO:
002699
Title:
Shuttle Car Being Loaded
Description:
Minre watches as coal pours into the shuttle car.
Mountaineer Coal Company, Division of Consolidation Coal Company.

5. Continuous Mining Machine (Middle) and Loading Machine (Bottom)

IDNO:
002701
Title:
Continuous Mining Machine (Middle) and Loading Machine (Bottom)
Date:
1959/04/07
Description:
Mountaineer Coal Company, Division of Consolidation Coal Company.

6. Shuttle Car Approaches Mine Railway Track.

IDNO:
002703
Title:
Shuttle Car Approaches Mine Railway Track.
1-Mining machine, electrically operated, 2. Electric locomotive and coal car train leaving mine, 3. Shaker screen for sorting coal according to size, 4. Coal powerhouse and tipple.

7. Coal Mining, Modern Methods of Production

IDNO:
002704
Title:
Coal Mining, Modern Methods of Production
Description:
1-Mining machine, electrically operated, 2. Electric locomotive and coal car train leaving mine, 3. Shaker screen for sorting coal according to size, 4. Coal powerhouse and tipple.
Rear end of loaded coal car in an underground mine.

8. 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.'

9. 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.'

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Coal Cutting Machine

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