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Tracks run along cut in hillside.  Train engine back in the distance.

1. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

Men standing on big steam shovel beside dump cars.

2. Marion Steam Shovel in Big Cut with Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Dump Cars.

Man working a steam shovel.

3. Marion Steam Shovel in Big Cut with Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Dump Cars.

Marion Steam Shovel and Shay in Big Cut rear view at distance.  'Shovel is near the end then track is thrown in low place and shovel is brought back to start where track is now.'

4. Big Cut One Mile from Spruce, W. Va. on the Elk River.

Distant photo of a Shay engine and steam shovel in between the cut in mountain.

5. Shay and Steam Shovel in the Big Cut

Steam shovel working at the Acme Limstone Quarry in Greenbrier County.

6. Acme Limestone Company Quarry, Greenbrier County, W. Va.

7. Steam Shovel, Island Creek Coal Company

8. View of Steam Shovel and Mine No. 21, Island Creek Coal Company

The steam powered Marion Shovel, Model 60 and two unidentified workers. Information on the back includes: "From Roy Long Coll..."

9. Sims Brothers' Steam Shovel On New Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Grade Near Barboursville, W. Va.