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The “Then and Now” series takes a look at the same railroad or locations with vintage film or video and then contrasting the “then” footage with modern “now” footage. In this series entry we look at thirty years on a stretch of railroad in deep southern Illinois: the joint Union Pacific and BNSF line primarily used by coal traffic over the hill at Goreville, Illinois.
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The hollers of coal country in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky. Filmed over the course of two years in every kind of weather from scorching summer heat to winter snow.
Norfolk Southern’s Columbus District between the Ohio River port town of Portsmouth and Capitol City Columbus is not the conveyor belt for coal that it was forty years ago, But, as we’ll see, it still handles a lot of coal, and non-coal traffic is growing.
At Boonville, Indiana, two coal hauling railroads share the same trackage; The Yankeetown Dock Railroad and Peabody’s Squaw Creek Railroad. In Part 1 of Boonville Delights, we take a look at the busier Yankeetown Dock Railroad.
The Squaw Creek operated with bright yellow, aging, diesels from the AMAX mine north of Boonville down to the docks located on the YDC for transferring into barges.