It's been more than three weeks since Jeff Willig got a call from his buddy Chris Sexton asking if he wanted to go stand in front of a moving train loaded with coal.
More than 1,100 miners in Kentucky, Wyoming, West Virginia and Virginia lost their jobs with no warning.
They didn't get paid for their last week of work, and their paycheques from the previous two weeks bounced.
Willig, Sexton, Blake Watts, and Chris and Dalton Lewis stood on the tracks on the evening of June 29 and blocked the train.
Then the miners set up camp nearby on the tracks to make sure it couldn't come through again.
Jeff Willig was among the original five miners who blocked a train from leaving the Black Mountain mine in Kentucky.
At a camp site in Kentucky, coal miners have set up a tent city complete with a performance space, left, and a kitchen, right. »