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Summerlee Mine Tipple and surrounding buildings.

1. Summerlee Tipple

IDNO:
004386
Title:
Summerlee Tipple
Description:
Summerlee Mine Tipple and surrounding buildings.
Parral mine at Summerlee operated by Stuart Colliery Co. (Daily capacity -1200 tons.)

2. Parral Mine Tipple at Summerlee, W. Va., Stuart Colliery Company

IDNO:
004452
Title:
Parral Mine Tipple at Summerlee, W. Va., Stuart Colliery Company
Date:
ca. 1908?
Description:
Parral mine at Summerlee operated by Stuart Colliery Co. (Daily capacity -1200 tons.)
Summerlee tipple and surrounding buildings.

3. Coal Tipple at Summerlee, W. Va.

IDNO:
004474
Title:
Coal Tipple at Summerlee, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1950
Description:
Summerlee tipple and surrounding buildings.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. 'This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews. Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day. Note how the cars are trimmed! What a neat appearance they present! Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed. Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows. Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal. No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture.'

4. Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple

IDNO:
004546
Title:
Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. 'This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews. Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day. Note how the cars are trimmed! What a neat appearance they present! Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed. Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows. Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal. No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture.'
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. "This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews. Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day. Note how the cars are trimmed! What a neat appearance they present! Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed. Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows. Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal. No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture."

5. Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple

IDNO:
004547
Title:
Loading White Oak Coal at the Summerlee Tipple
Description:
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars below the Summerlee tipple. "This picture shows a days run of coal below Summerlee Tipple just before being moved by the railroad crews. Three cars of stove size, four cars of lump, four cars of egg and eleven cars of slack constitute the loading for the day. Note how the cars are trimmed! What a neat appearance they present! Even the cars of slack are evenly loaded and trimmed. Careful inspection and frequent supervision accounts for results like the camera shows. Every attention is paid to the preparation and marketing of "White Oak" coal. No detail is too small to receive our most careful attention. Conditions shown here prevail at all the White Oak Mines. Each and every mine is carefully inspected as loaded by an experienced and competent inspector; all impurities removed and the car fully loaded and properly trimmed just as you see them in this picture."
Coal loading area. Cars going under a tipple.

6. Summerlee Coal Mine Facilities

IDNO:
004550
Title:
Summerlee Coal Mine Facilities
Date:
1952/04/20
Description:
Coal loading area. Cars going under a tipple.
Snow covered coal tipple station. Possibly at Summerlee?

7. Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004554
Title:
Coal Tipple
Date:
ca. 1920-1940
Description:
Snow covered coal tipple station. Possibly at Summerlee?
Coal cars being loaded under a tipple.

8. Summerlee Tipple, Fayette County, W. Va.

IDNO:
004555
Title:
Summerlee Tipple, Fayette County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Coal cars being loaded under a tipple.
Large trainline of coal cars. New River Co., Mt. Hope, W.Va., Summerlee Mine. Summerlee, W.Va. 'C.H. Sprague + Son, 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.'

9. Loaded Cars at the Summerlee Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004558
Title:
Loaded Cars at the Summerlee Coal Tipple
Date:
ca. 1951
Description:
Large trainline of coal cars. New River Co., Mt. Hope, W.Va., Summerlee Mine. Summerlee, W.Va. 'C.H. Sprague + Son, 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass.'
Coal cars coming away from tipple.

10. Sumerlee Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004561
Title:
Sumerlee Coal Tipple
Date:
ca. 1950-1960
Description:
Coal cars coming away from tipple.
Many coal cars loaded at the Summerlee Mine.

11. Coal Cars at Summerlee Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004563
Title:
Coal Cars at Summerlee Coal Tipple
Date:
1952/04/20
Description:
Many coal cars loaded at the Summerlee Mine.