Warrick C: Lynnville, IN: Peabody Wild Boar Coal Mine & Alcola Squaw Creek and B-E 1360W

(Satellite, a lot of strip mining has been done between Lynnville and Booneville.)

Parked Bucyrus-Erie: (Satellite, see below for some images)

Peabody mined the area south of Lynnville, and Squaw Creek mined the area north of Boonville.

This mine operated south of I-64. Peabody also mined north of I-64.

This mine closed in 1998. [CoalDiver]

The 1360 Experience posted
This is a picture of the completed Bucyrus Erie 1360W on the erection pad. The people in this picture are the ones who helped build this machine.

Shawnetta Compton posted
The old girl has been turned. Boom is now facing west.
Steve Postin I thought it was parked facing west.
Shawnetta Compton A wicked storm turned her facing north several years ago. Before my time at wild boar.
Zachary Postin It was but they say tornado or high winds moved it north and apparently they moved it back where its facing west again. I'm going to check it out here in a bit I was just out there 2 weeks ago and it was facing north
[Quite a few comments concern if and who will rebuild it using modern AC equipment.]

Satellite, accessed 2017

In a satellite image, the boom is facing north. You can see the shadow of the cables from the tip of the boom back to were the bucket is still west of the house.


While it was facing north, people could get good side views of it from the road: 1, 2, 3. Casey's Flickr photo has some informative comments.

Satellite, accessed 2020

Murph Dogg made a Lego model of it and provided the comments near the end of his web page:

This is the Squaw Creek 1360w, currently parked at the newly opened Wild Boar Mine near Lynnville, Indiana. The machine has been parked for about 10 years and was completely stripped and gutted by vandals and copper thieves. The machine made news in the mining machine enthusiast circuit this past year when it's idled boom swung about 30-40 degrees in high winds. The machine may see future work again at Wild Boar if the economy improves.

A Facebook photo when it was still working at Squaw Creek Mine. (Choose "Not Now" if you are not a member of Facebook.) I found the source of the Facebook photo.

Carl King posted four photos after it was facing West again with the comment: "Driving around on Sunday and thought these were pretty good pictures of the old Squaw Creek 1360."

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Bradley Robinson posted nine photos of the dragline. It now has a chain link fence around it.

They don't seem to be moving the dirt very far in this video. (new window) This must be the other 1360W that was built and shipped to Alberta.
 
   

Some of the reclaimed land has become an Important Bird Area. It is a good bird area because the land is still "held in bond" by Peabody (northern section) and Squaw Creek (southern section). When the coal companies release the bond and make the area available for purchase, the resulting development would significantly decrease the amount of available habitat for nesting grassland birds. Even farming activity would impact the nesting activity.

Audubon

16 photos of constructing the BE 1360

Update:

Map

Map

2:26 video
I’ve posted it before but this was last year. In Memory of the BE-1360 before scrapping.

Tanner Dickerson commented on the above video

Carlton Crasher commented on his video

Carlton Crasher commented on his video

Nick Graham posted
Another one falling to the smoke wrench [cutting torch, I presume]. It's been a fixture North of Boonville, South of Lynnville Indiana for decades.
Alex Taylor: Thankfully some parts from the machine will be donated to the Lynnville Museum Of The Coal Industry.
Carlton Crasher: It’s been parked since 1999. They do still mine that area though in front of the machine all the way up to 61. Especially in the last couple of years.
What I’m more curious is why in the last couple of years they put a fence around it. Ran power to it and installed multiple dish arrays on the boom with a building built beside it just to knock it all down.
Ted Hammond: Was there last year. They were still talking about the possibility of it going back to work. Too late now.
[A video in a comment shows the energetic felling of the boom.]

Andrew Adams commented on Nick's post

Job Wilson posted

A coworker purchased a picture frame from a secondhand store, and this picture was flipped around so it looked like it was a blank backboard.

This is the Marion 5900 from Lynnville Mine in Warrick County, IN.

[To summarize some comments, it switched from a fixed-pitch bucket, https://pbase.com/lexyky/image/164876482, to a variable-pitch bucket, https://pbase.com/lexyky/image/174152281. I don't know what that means, but the photos are interesting. I noticed that the "before" photo is dated 2016, whereas the "after" photo is dated 2008. So I'm confused.]