Coal miners sitting on a bench outside an office conversing as they await the beginning of their shift. Miners completing their shift arrive by rail car. Their faces are blackened from their mining work. They proceed to their cars and prepare to leave. The next shift gather their belongings, including lunch pails and board rail cars to take them down into the mine. open rail cars filled with coal are seen on a parallel track. The rail cars depart with the next shift of miners.
Piles of coal used to fire the furnaces of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Plant, alongside a river in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania United States.
Workers leave Jones & Laughlin Steel plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania United States. A number of workers walk out of the gate of plant. Some leave in cars. Security guard at the gate directs traffic and talks to some workers.
Jones & Laughlin Steel plant and houses near a muddy river in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania United States. Houses and buildings on other side of river also visible in distance.
Rural area around Aliquippa, Pennsylvania United States. Houses, barn and old buildings in countryside as seen from a moving car. Cars parked outside the houses. Houses at distance, near the road.
A line of ailroad cars deliver coal to the Jones & Laughlin Steel Plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania United States. They enter a device that grasps each car and rotates it completely, to empty it. A worker controls the coal car dumping machine from a control room. Empty coal cars come out of the yard.