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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

Tipple and tracks with filled RR cars present.

2. Tipple at Consolidation Coal Company Williams Mine

Tipple with filled RR cars.

3. Consolidation Coal Company Fairmont Tipple

Oakwood Steel Tipple loading coal cars.  Men standing on the coal in the cars.

4. Oakwood Mine Tipple

"Mine cars with 6 to 8 tons of raw R/M moving to rotary dump -Arkwright."

5. Tipple and Coal Cars at Arkwright Mine

Filled railroad cars at the Collins Colliery Tipple. There is a water reservoir in the background.

6. Collins Colliery Tipple

Coal cars going under tipple, Cranberry or Summerlee Mine.

7. Coal Tipple

Two men walking away from either Cranberry or Summerlee tipple loading coal cars.

8. Coal Tipple

Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars full of coal.

9. Loaded Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry

10. Loaded Coal Cars Leaving the Mine at Rosemont or Flemington, W. Va.

11. Loaded Coal Cars Leaving the Mine at Rosemont or Flemington, W. Va.

"Looking west on tramroad showing mine cars loaded with coal, head house, conveyor line, railroad tipple, river tipple and Kanawha River."

12. View of Tramroad Looking West, Island Creek Coal Company