Slag piles (coal not good enough to sell) around the town burned and smoked 24 hours a day.
Picking coal from the rock dumps to sell, or for their families.
The only roads in a coal town were dirt roads.
A tipple, or coal breaker, where the coal was graded and separated, then loaded to large railroad cars below.
The good ole coal stove was for cooking and heating.
Every coal mining town had a company store where everything from bread and milk to shoes and medicine were bought.