This page is a Tribute to all the Men, Women and Children of the Coal, Steel, Iron and Railroad Industries. National Geographic1918
BENEATH THESE BARE ROCKS LIE THE SOLIDIFIED SUNBEAMS A SNOW-COVERED DOUBLE HEADER AT THE END OF A RUN COAL PIERS AT NEWPORT NEWS, VA. A TINY GUARDIAN OF THE MINER'S WELFARE HOW NOT TO PREPARE A BLAST TAMPING HOME THE BLAST AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE MOVING A MINE TRAIN THE MULE STABLES IN A COAL MINE FATEFUL HOURS AT A MINE SHAFT (Death Watch) BREAKER BOYS AT LUNCH TIME THE INCLINED-PLANE ELEVATOR OR AN ANTHRACITE BREAKER A JACKHAMMER DRILL AT WORK, DRIVEN BY COMPRESSED AIR THE VIADUCT AT NICHOLSON, PENNSYLVANIA NAVIGATING THE PENNSYLVANIA HILLS IN A BIFURCATED BARGE THE FAMOUS HORSESHOE CURVE ABOVE ALTOONA A BLAST FURNACE OF AT SOUTH BETHLEHEM ONE OF A THOUSAND MONUMENTS TO THE COAL MINER THOUSANDS OF TONS OF ORE STORED IN A JOHNSTOWN YARD ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER NEAR COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA PORTION OF ONE OF THE BIG OPEN-PIT MINES ON THE MINNESOTA RANGES PARK POINT OR MINNESOTA POINT AND DULUTH HARBOR WOMEN DOING THEIR BIT IN AMERICAN MUNITION FACTORIES. (World War I). GIGANTIC PRESSURE PRESS FOR STAMPING CYLINDERS OUT OF STEEL PLATES THE FINISHING SECTION OF A BIG RAIL MILL STEEL RAIL PASSING THROUGH A ROLLING MILL LOADING ORE INTO CARS AT ASHTABULA, OHIO HULETT UNLOADER REMOVING THE ORE FROM A LAKE FREIGHTER LOADING STEEL RAILS IN CARS, USING AN ELECTRO-MAGNET CRANE INDUSTRY BEHIND THE WAR: PITTSBURGH AT NIGHT A DROP HAMMER FORGING AN AXLE FOR A RAILROAD CAR BUILDING MODERN STEEL PULLMANS, THE ACME OF COMFORT AND SAFETY PULLING AN ORE STEAMER OUT OF POE LOCK: SOO CANAL TAPPING AN OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE IN A STEEL MILL BESSEMER CONVERTERS AT WORK