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| Title | Electric hauling motor at New Black Diamond Mine, ca. 1927 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1927 |
| Caption | By the late 1920s, electric hauling motors had replaced mules for getting coal out of mines in the Cascade Mountains. Engines were attached to the electric line by means of a boom similar to those seen today on top of Seattle's electric-powered buses.
This photo shows an electric-powered mining train coming out of the New Black Diamond Mine at Black Diamond. The mine, owned by the Pacific Coast Coal Company, was also called the Indian Mine. |
| Subjects | Coal miners; Mine railroads; Pacific Coast Coal Company |
| Places | Black Diamond (Wash.); Indian Mine (Black Diamond, Wash.); New Black Diamond Mine (Black Diamond, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.647.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 121, 583 |
