Image: Mammoth Vein Coal Fig 8

Description: Original caption: "Fig. 8 -- Goodman 80-h.p. Rack Rail Locomotive Pulling 25-ton Trip Up 16 Per Cent Grade -- No. 11 Mine." This mine was located north of Marysville, Iowa and west of Bussey, Iowa. The locomotive uses the Morgan Rack combined third-rail and rack-traction system, and runs on 250-volt DC power at 80 horsepower on 36-inch gauge track. The man on the right is driving the locomotive; the other two men are standing behind it. This photograph was widely used in later Goodman Manufacturing Company advertising and it was used as a stock photo in articles about their mining machines.
Title: Mammoth Vein Coal Fig 8
Credit: E. C. DeWolfe, Operations of Mammoth Vein Coal Co., Bussey, Iowa, The Black Diamond, Vol 37, No. 5 (Aug. 4, 1906); page 30. A higher resolution but higher contrast version appears in Leonard. V. Newton, Electric Locomotive Haulage In and About Mines, B.S. Thesis, Mining Engineering, U. of Illinois, 1913; Plate 41. These images have been combined here. Later in 1906, Goodman made extensive use of this photo in their advertising; see, for example, Black Diamond, Vol. 37, No. 21 (Nov 21, 1906); page 50 and Black Diamond, Vol. 37, No. 22 (Dec 1, 1906); page 50. This photo also appears in Electricity in Mining. the Electrical Record, Vol. II, No. 4 (Oct. 1907), page 16, and as Figure 64 in E.B. Wilson, Evolution of Mine Haulage, Mines and Minerals (Sept. 1910) Vol. 31, No. 2; page 82.
Author: Possibly photographed by or for E. C. DeWolfe, but possibly provided to him by the coal company or the locomotive manufacturer.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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