The Squaw Creek Southern Railroad (reporting mark SCS) is a

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subsidiary of Respondek Railroad operating in the southern portion of the State of

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. Originally, the Squaw Creek Southern started operating 21 miles of former Yankeetown Dock Corporation/

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trackage owned by

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, but has since started servicing Foresight Energy's Sitran Coal Terminal near

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and

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's Innovative Plastics plant in

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History

In 2003, Norfolk Southern bought 21.6 miles of former

Peabody Coal Company Peabody Energy is a coal mining and energy company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Its primary business consists of the mining, sale, and distribution of coal, which is purchased for use in electricity generation and steelmaking. Peabody ...

/Yankeetown Dock Corporation (AMAX Coal) trackage and spurs from Lynnville, Indiana, to Yankeetown Indiana. In 2007, the Squaw Creek Southern acquired trackage rights from Norfolk Southern from 0.0 BY (Yankeetown) and 21.6 BY (Lynnville Mine), and since then, has done the loading at Alcoa's Liberty Mine north of Boonville, and unloading at Alcoa's Warrick Operations, as well as Yankeetown Docks.

Locomotive Roster

* RRC 11,

EMD SD35 An EMD SD35 is a 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1964 and January 1966. Power was provided by an EMD 567D3A, 16-cylinder engine which generated . A fuel tank was used on this unit. ...

rebuild from EMD SDP35 * RRC 20,

EMD SD38-2 The EMD SD38-2 is a model of six-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Diesel, General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) from 1972 to 1979. EMD built 90 of these medium road-switchers, which were used in both yard and mainlin ...

* RRC 21, EMD SD38-2 * RRC 204

EMD SD9 An SD9 is a 6-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and June 1959. An EMD 567C 16-cylinder engine generated . Externally similar to its predecessor, the SD7, the SD9 was built with the improv ...

Former

Algers, Winslow and Western Railway The Algers, Winslow and Western Railway was a Class III short-line railroad that served the surface mining operations in Pike County, Indiana. It operated approximately 19 miles of track which reached from the coal mines west of Cato south ...

#204 * RRC 415

EMD GP7 The EMD GP7 is a four-axle ( B-B) diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October 1949 and May 1954.Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973) pp. 53 Power was provided by an EMD 567B 1 ...

Former

#415 * RRC 1001 EMD GP7 Former Peabody Coal #1001 * RRC 4139 EMD GP7 * the railroad also had a single EMD SD40T-2, 8795, which is currently operated by the Wheeling And Lake Erie Railway.

References

External links

Squaw Creek Southern Website

Respondek Railroad Website

Photos of Respondek Railroad Corporation locomotives
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History

Locomotive Roster

See also

References

External links