I spent some time looking for the Bridge Hunter post for the bridge over the shovel until I finally remembered that they don't document UCEBs (Ugly Concrete Eyesore Bridges).
There are certainly a lot of land tattoos for strip mining near Rockport.
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| Donna Grady Ebelhar posted Green Coal shovel moving down Green River closely under the Audubon Parkway bridge when it moved from Rockport to Spottsville. January 1989 Roger Shocklee: I pumped water out of the barge after it was loaded during Christmas 1988. We worked 12 hour shifts waiting for the river to drop so it would fit under the bridges. [Winter is generally the low water season for rivers.] Matt Weyand shared Gibson Smith: 1650-B Wendell Bennett: That's showing somewhere around 50' tall stripped down . Devery Patterson: Looks like the 1650 that was at vogue & Alston. Pretty sure it’s the one we dismantled at vogue. We took it to Alston surface and built it back. Wayne Pruitt: This was the shovel named “The River Queen”. It came from the River Queen mine and arrived downriver at Spottsville Ky. Green Coal Company put her to work there. I was oiler on this same machine for several years. She was laid to rest at the Spottsville mine in the mid 90’s |
There are certainly a lot of land tattoos for strip mining near Rockport.
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Vicki Embry Dant posted two images with the comment: "The first picture is of a postcard from Green Coal Company. The second picture tells about the machines."
Terry English: Great pictures. The shovel was the BE1650B and the dragline was the Page that pulled back for the BE1650B at the Green Coal Company Panther Mines.
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| Jim Bartlett posted 1650 Pit 1983 Terry English: We had a BE1650B Shovel, BE1050B Shovel, BE480W Dragline and a Page Dragline.... |
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