Barrow & Locke Mining Combine

Often referred to as B&L; also called the "Barrow and Locke Mining and Railroad Combine", "B&L Coal and Rail", or "B&L Mineral Resources".

"one of the earliest and richest collaborations to ever extract minerals from these here mountains" - Episode 5 - The Boy

The Barrow and Locke families have a long, deep tie with the Inner Dark.

The combine is headquartered in Pennsylvania; it's possible that it's actually headquartered in a town called Barrow, as Earl Hamner speaks of coming south "from up in Pennsylvania, right by Barrow, the home office." B&L seems to be a combination of two institutions--Locke Rail or Locke Railroad (mentioned by name in Chapter One of The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow), and Barrow, which was presumably initially a mining company.

B&L has existed since at least 1877 (in 1917, before he encounters The Boy, Earl Hamner notes that he has been with the company for forty years).