Miners would remove coal at the "face" and shovel it into carts to take it to the surface.

Above ground, mines had buildings used as shops for machinery.

Mines used track to move the coal.

The building above the tracks was called the tipple.  Coal was taken to the tipple to be loaded into the railcars below.

Coal had to be sorted out of the "boney" or waste rock.  These men and boys were referred to as "pickers."

Coal also had to be sorted into different sized chunks.  This was done by passing it through a series of screens.

Another view of the screening table. 

Another view of the screening table.

A closer view of the coal tipple.

Different view of a coal tipple.

This view shows how the tipple loaded coal into the railcars.

This was the easiest way to load coal into railcars.