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Hi @Glowstick Films, awesome video! I reached out to you via email about a week about researching one of the mines in the walker county area. I'd love to hear back from you if you get the chance. Keep up the interesting videos!

Good to see you back! I was about to ask Josh if everything was okay. I still think that the spot behind the crusher used to be a tunnel. If there really wasn't a slope at this one, I wonder why? And zero maps other than the eastern most mine.... weird...

I've been going to flat top recently as I was lead on a bit of a hunt. Old fellow that lived nearby said his father used to talk about a second tunnel and trestle that veered off a second railbed. Been looking for the flat top portal(s) as well as the second tunnel (Second trestle is long gone) but nothing yet. The man said this second railbed was already covered up by the 80s but I was able to spot parts of it on google earth pro using the time machine feature. Current goal is to go back and find the flat top portal as well as this second railbed/tunnel. If you got any information that would be greatly appreciated!

Hard to believe it's been dormant this long. Having lived in Wisconsin all my life I've always been interested in mining operations other than upper Minnesota and Michigan so your efforts are appreciated

My parents both grew up in the Marvel community. I listened to their stories of this area, of my parents, grandparents and great grandparents lives. My father worked in the top house (if I remember correctly) before leaving the area to look for work elsewhere, landing in Ohio, where he planted his roots and stayed. Thank you for this bit of history from my not too distant past, it was a wonderful reminder of all the stories I've heard.

3:25 that’s the house I grew up in -up until I was 16-17 years old. We had it painted a pretty yellow and my mom planted a beautiful dogwood tree out front. A lot of memories in good ol’ Bayview, Alabama.

Now that was a big one !

Hoping for a good update on the condition😊

Unfortunately I will not be visiting Birmingham until this is re-built exactly as it was in 1943.

My grandaddy worked those mines for a very long time. He died of black lung. He burned coal in his house every winter with his 11 kids and wife living there. Every one of my aunts and uncles , including my mom developed different cancers and eventually every single one of them developed dementia.... coincidence?.?? I doubt it😢 They grew up in poverty and some didn't go to school because they had no shoes and the older boys had to work. My family did not profit from these nasty coalmining jobs. It only brought sickness and death. Greedy men stepped all over the little guy and gave them crumbs. I hate their guts.

I have a living relative that worked the mines for many years. He talked ab the mile long slope, cable system, and working on all the equipment there. Is there a way to get a copy of some of the mine maps? I have been trying to get him some framed.

Love your videos. One of the few things that ties me to my dad’s generation

JB Casey, my paternal Grandpa was a plant superintendent at Woodward and later Koppers. His sons; Billy, Bob (my Dad) and Buddy grew up in a "company house".

I'm thankful I got to see this beautiful trestle many times back in the 80s before it was carelessly set on fire by kids with fireworks. I walked across it many times and and midway across, there were two cross ties that extended perpendicular of the tracks where you could sit in case you were caught by a train and couldn't make it back. Thanks for the video!

I wanna go . I live next to the park would love to see the old mines that are left up on the hill. . I've mapped miles of trails up there

I began my coal mining career in 1973 at Mulga.

Yep..been there on four wheelers..live 20 minutes from there and have visited most of the old mines..live the history..

That’s Josh box! I cannot find the cave man help a brotha out

This video is absolutely spectacular! I've always been a railfan, and when we moved to B'ham in "73 I didn't get to see the stations and such. Only in my imagination could I see it all. Thank you so much for doing your homework & posting it so many can enjoy how it all must've looked.

So they own the portal? Since it is sealed who would make the call and give an ok to reopen?

This is the town I grew up in, spent quite a a lot of time walking around right where you were in this video

Great resources. how were you able to source the old photos and records of the Acmar mines?

We had them in old quarries that vented limestone mines in my area. We used to hang out near them when they still used them.

What is the name of the narrator on this video? How can I contact him? William Lynn.

Thank you for this! My great-grandfather, Joshua L. Mitchell, built the #10 trestle for Moore Bros. His family’s picture is with one of the Atlanta Constitution articles you showed. I’ve been to the site but didn’t know it was now part of the rail-trail system. I had never seen some of the other photos you have here! My father researched this before his death. I wish he’d lived to see your video or to be able to go to the site.

Underground mule stables!

Brilliant, man. Absolutely top-notch! My only suggestion would be to slow it down 50% or so for your appreciators who may not (ahem) see or read so fast anymore. But keep on. You’re piling up fans

My wife's grandfather grew up in Tracy City in the 1920, 30's and early 40's. We sat for hours and talked about growing up there. Nothing was easy. He talked about taking a man's mule and plowing several acres of bottom land for less than 50 cents a day during the depression. There were no jobs and at times no money or food. What you grew or hunted was about it, a lot of days. He also talked about going with his father to hear John L Sullivan talk to the coal miners about joining the Mine Workers Union. They finally did and months later most all of the union support stopped and mining support went to West Virginia and Kentucky because much more coal was coming out of the ground. More mines and miners meant more dues so he dropped them like a hot potato. The people in Tracy City didn't have many good things to say about him. Interesting enough her grandfather stayed strong in his faith in God and moved later to an area that had better jobs and he lead a pretty good life. At no time in his life good, honest, hard work was never a problem.

It's a nice feeling when you see a video like this and the videographer is documenting a proud history of coal mining and not knocking the industry and the people who worked the mines. My family used to go to church out on the mountain. The congregation had a lot of miners. On Sunday mornings, you could always tell who the miners were because they would be all fresh and clean. Except for the telltale line of coal dust on their lower eyelashes. Thank you for the video and bringing back some wonderful memories. God bless those coal miners, their footsteps have long quit the place but they sure left their mark.

Excellent video. We traveled through there when I was a kid and saw those ovens. Had no idea what they were at the time.

My mom was born and raised in Walker County. She’s still going strong at 89 years of age. Her dad, my grandfather, was a coal miner and father of seven children. He and my grandmother left in 1952 because the mine played out. I’ve shown her a couple of videos and she really enjoys reminiscing. She said she went to church at Snoddy’s Chapel. At any rate, thank you for sharing this video. I welcome any replies from viewers as well.

When I was little my mom worked at the K-Mart near the top of flint ridge just down from the TCI/USS HQ and my dad would take me to see her when she worked the night shift. He and I would sit in the car and watch the flames coming from the stacks dance in the distance until I fell asleep. Sadly, since they scaled back the plant operations and Walmart left, the area has become the site of many shootings and like most places that have an economic downturn when industry leaves or scales back, drugs, alcohol, and violence are starting to take hold of the area. The city even disbanded the police force a couple years ago due to a lack of funds and now the sheriff's office has jurisdiction of that area from what I remember. Sad to see what appears to be a company that built the town, turn its back on it and throw it away when they've gotten all that they wanted or that it isn't as profitable anymore and leave all the damage to the environment and health of the nearby residents that industry causes as a by-product of advancement.

It's always interesting. Never know what you might find.

Very nice🎉🎉

If you plan to visit these now days you better bring a lot of heavy equipment. They buried them in about 70 feet of dirt and rock and built a new high school on top of them.

There were operating coke ovens in Rockwood, Tn that you could see from above as you went up I40 on the mountain.

Very cool

Nice video . Well done ! Very interesting .

Is this Jeff and Josh underground Birmingham by any chance?

I’m gonna put in for ya’ll a raise!!! But seriously, ya’ll have done it again! Thank you for recording all this for posterity!!

Birminghams biggest mistake as a city was tearing this down.

Interesting video and l concur on the spray paint. Thanks 😊

Both mines I worked in had rail. Super nice getting around. I watched a video of a diesel man-trip... yeah... no thanks. Nice video of the longwall in operation.

Great work! I worked at US Steel in the land development, we still had documents and maps of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in map drawers.

thanks for showing. I was eight years old when the terminal closed. A group of kind ladies rounded up a group of us kids who had never been inside the terminal. They arranged for someone who had worked inside the the terminal to give us an inside tour of the place. It was most interesting . It's too bad it wasn't saved.

Makes me miss working there. Thought I was going to work there some more a while back but got cancelled. May just have to visit sometime anyways.

What is the name of the first piece of music?

Yo guys, I got some mines on buck mtn. Right outside of weatherly, hit me up

Enjoy your videos🎉

Wow, great find.