Somerville, IN: Coal Mine

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Plenty of equipment working this morning in Somerville, IN.

The comment got me looking at a satellite image around Somerville. I quickly found a coal loading facility that includes a loop track and some land scars that indicated old strip mining. But I had to zoom out quite a ways and then pan south to find the current pit operations.

Satellite

Then I zoomed back in because this mine still has a big stripping dragline.

The loop track is connected to the Indiana Southern/.../
Big4/C&EI/Evansville, Indianapolis & Terre Haute.

Jan 2020 Update: The dragline has moved significantly further South since Jul 2017.

At satellite resolution

Lots of helper machines.

Satellite

They reclaim the land as they move across it.

Satellite