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1045. Visitor Standing In The Scoop of the Mountaineer Coal Shovel

Coal cars line up at Consolidation Coal Co. (W. Va.), mine no. 25 tipple.

1046. Coal Tipple, Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 25, W. Va.

1047. Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 32, Fairmont, W. Va.

Coal cars run down the track in a preparation plant yard.

1048. Coal Preparation Plant Yard

This crane is ripping the mountainside away for coal.

1049. Massive Coal Shovel at Work

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.'

1050. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.

A miner operates an electric shuttle car in the mine.

1051. Miner Operating an Electric Shuttle Car

A pile of coal in a coal car.

1052. Peacock Splint, Pittsburgh Coal

1053. Coal Cargo Ship at Sea, Hampton Roads

Coal miner's shower room.

1054. Miner's Showers, Hanna Coal Company

1055. Shot Down Coal, Mine No. 63

Several men digging on top of a mound.

1056. Excavating an Indian Mound on Ireland Coal Company Land