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Exploring the coal region, past and present locations, and the techniques used at the time to learn my hometown heritage.
The Things You Find in the Woods
Bob V. found this old coal mine town remnants using LIDAR and an old aerial photo taken back around the 1930's. There was what seems to be foundations of a breaker and homes in the area! The bonus footage might have been a decommissioned desilting dam! I found
two ticks on me.! So watch if you hike in the woods!!
two ticks on me.! So watch if you hike in the woods!!
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Mine Hunting at AOAA in Coal Township, Pa.
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Tad invites me up to Anthracite Offroad Adventure Area in Coal Township, just south of Shamokin, Pa. to look for mine remnants he and Jeff, the owner of the AOAA campground, discovered and legally drive the KRX to a neat bar/restaurant in town!! AOAA LINK: www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g2176108-d10391557-Reviews-Anthracite_Outdoor_Adventure_Area-Coal_Township_Pennsylvania.html LOST MINE...
Fosters Tunnel Dissaster of 1915
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Bob V. and I search for Fosters Tunnel (aka Rahns Coliery) in Coaldale, Pa. Plus more!! LINKS: tamaquaarea.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/ceremony-marks-100th-anniversary-of-foster-mine-tunnel-cave-in-and-rescue-in-coaldale/ usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/rahn_1915.htm youtube.com/@Bob_V?si=FkIsaUB7vym5abZ-
AOAA Adventure in the Winter with Tad and Freinds
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I meet up with Tad and his freinds Harvey, Jamie, Steve, and Donna at Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area for a winter exploration of the old mines, equipment, goat man, and even a mine fire!
Abandoned "Bootleg" Mines
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Bob V. and I find abandoned "bootleg" mines
Exploring Flooded Mines with Bob V.
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Bob V. takes me to mines that show up as orange rivers on Google Maps. We do locate some sources and lots of surprises! Bob V's video link: ruclips.net/video/rpAtuZ5garI/видео.htmlsi=-jwtl8T43dpPGBbZ
Searching for the Haugh & Hirsch Colliery with Tad and Hannah
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MAP LINK: digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/pageol/id/42951/ ENGINE 113 LINK: www.rrproject113.org/
Abandoned Finds
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Bob V. and I originally find what seems to be an abandoned ruins of a building and stumble upon an abandoned homestead with EVERYTHING left behind. The home is a mess with antiques that surprise us. No vandalism other than the former owners mess of beer cans and relics. Seems weird everything is cluttered and unorganized, but left behind!
Interesting Roadside Finds with Bob V.
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Bob V. and I stumble upon roadside finds with lots of unanswered questions.
The Pine Shaft Colliery at Famous Reading Outdoors Burma Trailhead, St. Clair, Pa.
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Tad and I take one last ride of the year on FRO Buma Trailhead in St. Clair, and locate some abandoned mine equipment and the Pine Shaft Colliery ruins!
Finding Mines
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Bob V and I explore an area on mine maps where we find some extensive mining that took place in the past. Plus I loose an expensive flashlight! Bob V's Video Link: ruclips.net/video/MxNdN3PMgDQ/видео.htmlsi=B8toBYC9VW5tCDJm
Famous Reading Outdoors Ashland North Trailhead [PART 2]
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Famous Reading Outdoors Ashland North Trailhead [PART 1]
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Tad and I travel FRO Ashland North Trailhead along the Pottsville/Danville RR. We drive to some familiar past video locations of mine. We end up in Raven Run, Pa.! Question is, do we find our way back? Find out in Part2! MAP LINKS: digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/pageol/id/42951/ VIDEO LINKS: ruclips.net/video/ucQPmnQSn6o/видео.htmlsi=FfMynPlejQLGAQQa ruclips.net/video/MJjEJy-xtwM/...
The Alaska Colliery #1, Mt. Carmel, Pa. [PART 2]
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Part 2 of the Alaska Colliery#1 in Mt Carmel, Pa. PART 1 VIDEO LINK: ruclips.net/video/AChl6RozfrU/видео.htmlsi=xP0pd0nyfBsBGU8d
The Alaska Colliery #1, Mt. Carmel, Pa. [PART 1]
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Bob V. shows me the Alaska colliery #1 in Mt. Carmel, Pa. he found on Pa. Mine Map Atlas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska,_Northumberland_County,_Pennsylvania AnthraciteHeritageAlliance/posts/alaska-colliery-ca-1907/1454133011458984/ upthewoods.net/files/images/CollieriesandCoalBreakers/Northumberland/Alaska01.jpg PART 1 VIDEO LINK: ruclips.net/video/UFdfHl1OZaY/видео.htmlsi=Gwe_PFQrw...
Exploring the Ellsworth Colliery at Famous Reading Outdoors Darkwater Trailhead [Part 2]
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Exploring the Ellsworth Colliery at Famous Reading Outdoors Darkwater Trailhead [Part 2]
Exploring the Ellsworth Colliery at Famous Reading Outdoors Darkwater Trailhead [PART 1]
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Exploring the Ellsworth Colliery at Famous Reading Outdoors Darkwater Trailhead [PART 1]
Exploring Famous Reading Outdoors (Part 3 More of South St. Kerin's Trail Head)
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Exploring Famous Reading Outdoors (Part 3 More of South St. Kerin's Trail Head)
Exploring Famous Reading Outdoors (Part 2... South St. Kerin's Trail Head) with Tad
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Exploring Famous Reading Outdoors (Part 2... South St. Kerin's Trail Head) with Tad
Exploring Famous Reading Outdoors (Part 1...Dark Water Trailhead) with Tad.
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Exploring Famous Reading Outdoors (Part 1...Dark Water Trailhead) with Tad.
What Was This Abandoned Building??
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What Was This Abandoned Building??
Yellow Jacket Extermination Coal Region Style!!
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Yellow Jacket Extermination Coal Region Style!!
Visiting "The Whaleback" in Coal Township, Pa.
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Visiting "The Whaleback" in Coal Township, Pa.
Road Construction Reveals Tamaqua's History
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Road Construction Reveals Tamaqua's History
Riding Famous Reading Outdoors' St. Kerins' North Trail Head in Hekschersville, Pa. with Tad
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Riding Famous Reading Outdoors' St. Kerins' North Trail Head in Hekschersville, Pa. with Tad
A Creepy Wash House in Yatesville, Pa.
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A Creepy Wash House in Yatesville, Pa.
The Remnants of the St. Nicholas Colliery
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The Remnants of the St. Nicholas Colliery
The School next to the St Nicholas breaker
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The School next to the St Nicholas breaker
A Tour of the Lehigh Anthracite Surface Mine
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A Tour of the Lehigh Anthracite Surface Mine
IF you see a bottle,let lay 🤷♂️🤣
Thanks again for another enjoyable video Chris. I love these historic anthracite mining areas. Traces of this history are disappearing all too fast.
Hey now all along Wm Penn and into Lost Creek (Loss Crick) there used to be a rail line that paralleled the road up into Shenandoah. It wraps around the mountain and links up wit the the line from Mahanoy City outside Mahanoy Plane. They still shove or pull coal up dat track tru the Buck Tunnel to Tamaqua and points south. Imagine the coal that went through that tunnel back in the day. Built the free world. No joke.
Awesome
By the way, it's TAGGARTSVILLE. And the Tuscarora Road was called TAGGARTSVILLE ROAD years ago. Probably thinks he's just outside the town of TAM-a-kwa
@14:16 LOCALS call it the Bear Cave.
You missed the tunnel in the beginning. You have to cross Red Bridge to get to it. Oh, look! Mountain laurel (nope, rhododendron. Yep, that's definitely a canal, or maybe it's a branch of the Delaware River. (so many canals, no tow paths.) Maybe you were on one‽ look at those rocks!! YEP, they're rocks!! Why do people feel just because the find something interesting and want to share it, do they need to post to you tube like they're an authority on the subject? Still haven't seen anything that shows you found Tagertsville Powder Works or the village og Tagertsville.
Was that a tank from an air compressor?
Good video. Love the outtake pics! Thank you for taking the time to include part of the construction process of the Tunkhannock Viaduct.
Old Bob is like a mountain goat, he just sprints through them woods.
People Don,t realise the Work we put in to make these Documentaries..I Respect all you do..Your content is Awesome....
Much appreciated
This is my New Guilty Pleasure...You guys are Awesome, Respect to You and Bob...I go Alone exept for when my Son comes with me, But I enjoy every Find, As do You...Genuine exploring my friend..Massive respect...
Don't forget Tad.
🤣🤣🤣I,m selling the House and Moving in here....Respect from The WILDARMY....
OH MY GOD BROTHER...Your ME...Over the pond....Loving this my friend, Massive respect from the UK..So glad I found this, I thought I was alone......🤣
Respect from the UK my friend, You and I have very similar channels Brother...Just different sides of the rock, Love this, Your Headline stood out to me The Things You Find in the Woods...Nobody Explores the woods any more, I go out for hours, Never see anybody...Your channel is Awesome, New Sub here from The UK....We are the WILDARMY.....
Thank you kindly
Wow, this is awesome. I'm definitely gonna go check this out tomorrow!
Dont....they are looking for a drowning victim there. It just happened this week.
I know what's there alot of ticks 😆😆😆
i know exactly were you are...i was there in the mid 90's with a buddy of mine in my ford truck...@33;51 you are by something behind you..i bet that was part of the breaker thats use to be there..they didnt knock that building down all to long ago .....you are in the right spot
Yeah G I remember us up there...Do you remember the 48-52 Ford pickup on it's roof in the bush? I even remember the "F1" emblem on the cowl. I also remember in the early 90's the cement structures that you could see from I-81 that were beside the rail line. Hindsight is 20/20 - I wish I would've explored out there back then before I left.
@@user-or3cb3yu5f yes sir B.K..i remember that truck .it was a black one
Hi Chris & Jaime..It's Dave & Colleen..we have been following you for sometime now..and enjoy your videos and knowledge of the Mining industry..Keep up the great work..
I'm a native of Nesquehoning. Your channel makes me feel right at home!
Always look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work!
Where is the June 1920 tunnel from the beginning. Love anything with the Keystone
It was on rte 54 between Locust Dale and Locust Summitt
@@coalcrackerchris Thank you 👋
Have you found new
My town there.
Enjoyed your explore of a little of Frackville history. I was born in Bloomsburg, but in 1968 dad got a job with E I DuPont's Seaford nylon production facility, the world's first nylon plant. A couple times a year, we would pass this tunnel and under the railroad bridge until it was removed. Everytime we headed north past this tunnel as a child, i would marvel at the fact that it was constructed the same year my dad's father was born. In those early years for me, that wasn't filled in, that only occurred upon the removal of the adjacent bridge. I'm a huge railroad fan. On my families home farm, the hoghouse and butcher house were built from huge railroad tressel timbers removed from the Mainville tressel in the 1920s, when the Reading went to solid fill to carry heavier coal loads. Had a great-great uncle that was a section crew member that worked for the Reading Railroad-Catawissa Branch. Probably how my family got tressel timbers to build hoghouse and butcher house. Family farm dates from about 1850s.
Where did you park wanted to go here for years
By the UPS depot there's an abandoned factory you can park on Lincoln St
What did you find
The boiler house
Yo bot, great video nice seeing the history back in the bush
Not sure if it is still burning but there used to be a coal mine fire off of route 54 going from Mahanoy City to Shenondoah.
My Great Uncle John Snoich worked at this plant from about 1920-1928. He was a machinist/metal worker. I discovered yesterday in the family archive that he had a family membership at the Hauto yacht club as an employee perk too! His dad was killed in the Hauto tunnel hitching a ride on the train - broke his neck in 1906.
I too would have thrown stuff in.
Is the ice cream shop still at the end of town? And the hoagie shop at the top of town? I miss those hoagies 😭💞
Childhood memories
No, water....its a water reservoir. Was born there. Shafts are everywhere
Excellent video and very cool tour! Very informative!👌👍
The bricks around that area should have been shown I bought a few with family names when the memorial was going up.
Hey Chris, big building is where I was saying a big mine was that I have pictures of. I tried asking you for an email address but didn't hear from ya! Let me know if you'd like to see the pictures of the old mine that was there before they filled it in. We used to get to that spot from Bear valley road in Shamokin, that was the easiest way until AOAA started up.
That would be cool!! chirsch54@gmail.com
Do you know what that building was? Awesome piece of history. I sure hope they don't destroy it.
@@tadeccleston8879 unfortunately no, the building looked exactly the same back then as does now. It was just the mine entrance that was there and in good shape before they filled it.
Not to mention, its fun as shit driving to these places
Fyi, when im in pa we need the sxs to get to these locations. The mine shaft is 6 miles away from any road. And the building and mining equipment is 12 miles away from any road. The cracker explores with Bob V when there within hiking distance. We usually cover 40 miles in an explore trying to find cool stuff to video. Not to mention Criss has to pay dues to AOAA and FRO to be able to show ya these places. Over 400 bucks a yr. And me as a driver pays more. Sorry your not into krx. But without it you wouldn't have 10 cc videos at least. Its a tool we use to get us to these places so we can video for all to enjoy.
This is an area on my “mine finding” list.
Hi Chris..I've notice your losing your adventures side..other videos you would be walking and not missing a thing..going in Mine shafts..ETC...the side by side thing takes away so much..yes I realize u cover more ground but less detail..
Good explore buddy. We still have a part 2 to do at aoaa. Then will head back TO FRO. It was great to hook up again. See ya in may for more adventures 😊
Can't wait!
Hi friend cool video but we want more videos please 😊. From Scotland 😊🎉🎉
This channel deserves more followers. Love exploring Pennsylvania's backwoods.
Thank you!!
At 41:43 I want to believe there's a manway that connects to that part that I've passed before at the slope, but I've never went back to look. Even when I had the opportunity and I knew it, for some reason I've never went to look.
Awesome 😎
Great video! Looks like a cool area to explore!
It is!!!
My former neighborhood! Only left the area to live with relatives to seek employment. St. George’s Lithuanian Roman Catholic ⛪️ church was mentioned. Two of my three sisters & I stood in front of the vacant lot where it once stood, & cried! Demolished in 2010! Some of my family & I still continue to visit my old stomping grounds, & then visit the cemetery in Shenandoah Heights where my family has a plot of land. I already bought my own tombstone 🪦 (yep ) & had it installed next to my son & parents. We also head to Kowalonek’s Kielbasy Shop! I absolutely love the Cooked Fresh Liver Ring! And Potato Kishki! Yum! No place like home! Never ever! 🙏🏼💖
Largest surface natural anticline in NEPA that I know about.Love this spot.
That tunnel in the beginning is Fosters Tunnel. It used to connect with the No. 9