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A man stands atop a filled coal car. 'Loading coal into railroad gondolas is made easy by structures called 'tipples.' The pictured tipple is typical of those to be found throughout the rich bituminous coal fields of southern West Virginia.'

1. Coal Mine Tipple

Mine tipple surrounded by other mine buildings.

2. Fairmont Coal Company Highland Mine Tipple

Viropa mine tipple with train to the left.

3. Viropa Mine Tipple, Fairmont Coal Company

Cranberry Mine tipple and surrounding buildings.

4. Cranberry Tipple

A small house sits next to the tipple. Filled coal cars are on the tracks.

5. Fairmont Coal Company Ehlen Mine Tipple

'Gardener cultivating flower bed on lawn in front of preparation plant, Mine No. 98, Consolidation Coal Co., W. Va.' Bituminous Coal Institute, 320 Southern Building, Washington 5, D.C. November 1948.

6. Mine No. 98 Tipple

Coal mining tipple loading coal cars.

7. Fairmont Meadowbrook Tipple

Fairmont Coal Co. Solon Mine tipple loading coal cars.

8. Fairmont Coal Company, Solon Mine Tipple

Stanaford Tipple loading coal cars.  Coal cars moving up and down hill on tracks.

9. Stanaford Wooden Tipple

Early Stanaford Wooden Tipple- later acquired from Eastern Gas and Fuel.

10. Stanaford Wooden Tipple

Tipple and coal buildings present.

11. Enterprise Mine Tipple, Fairmont Coal Company

Tipple and tracks with filled RR cars present.

12. Tipple at Consolidation Coal Company Williams Mine