The tipple from the Catherine mine near Muddelty, Nicholas County, was one of the last wooden tipples to be used in West Virginia. The raw coal feed conveyor has been removed and the area around it reclaimed but the Catherine tipple still allegedly stands. For more information
about this tipple see this page about the tipple.(September 2005 photo)
The train yard at the end of the old Winifrede Railroad, a historic independent short line railroad now used by Kanawha Eagle Coal, LLC. (April 2006 photo)
These coal cars sitting in Winifrede Hollow still bore the label "WNRR" - Winifred Railroad. The creek that drains the hollow is actually Fields Creek, but Winifrede was the coal camp that was located there. (September 2001 photo)
This is Widen, WV, in Clay County, site of much UMWA warfare. where the mines were owned by the Elk River Coal and Lumber Company before being sold to
the Clinchfield Coal Company, a subsidiary of Pittston Coal Company. (August 2003 photo)
Here is some of the board and batten coal camp houses in Widen.
The Clinchfield Coal Company closed the Widen mines in 1963. (August 2003 photo)
Gauley Mountain Coal Company's town named Jodie, WV representing the Gauley River district of the Kanawha Field. (September 2004 photo)
Putnum county coal company town named Black Betsy, WV. This is in a district of the Kanawha coalfield in which the southern extent of the Pittsburgh seam occurs. The Black Betsy Coal and Mining company opened the coal mine here in 1902. (September 2002 photo)
These silos, and part of the aerial tram and barge loader, are all that remains of Semet Solvay's once large mine at Harewood, WV. (September 2002 photo)
The Kanawha Coalfield has been blessed with the navigable Kanwaha River. That ensures that operations aren't entirely dependent on railroads for transporation. The barge loadout pictured here, across the river from Chelyan, WV, has a huge stockpile of coal to load into the waiting barges. (April 2006 photo)