Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive

Identifier:

002996

Title:

Miner Operating an Electric Locomotive

Description:

'An Electric Locomotive: Good dependable motive power is just as necessary in a coal mine as on a railroad. This picture shows on of White Oak's ten ton electric locomotives used to haul loads and distrubute empties in our mines. A crew consists of a motorman and brakeman, or trip rider, who pull loads from the working places to convenient sidings where they are picked up by main line locomotives, who haul to the tipple or shaft bottom. A large producing mine uses fifteen and twenty locomotives and five hundred mine cars in maintaining production.'

Acquisition Source:

Craigo, Robert

Acquisition Method:

Acquired

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView