Born and raised in Wilkes-Barre. Truly enjoyed this!
@colleenandbasilbrackett79749 күн бұрын
My grandfather and his family worked in the Shamokin coal mines. They came from Ireland by the way of the coal mines in Wales. Brave, tough people.
@americanfastfoodstories9 күн бұрын
@@colleenandbasilbrackett7974 people with cold dust in their blood are very hard workers. So is their family.
@jamesbenedict72065 жыл бұрын
Love the old mining, loggind,and sailing songs!
@thomassalois3508 Жыл бұрын
I just did this coal mine tour a couple of weeks ago I enjoyed it
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
Good deal!
@bubba4072 Жыл бұрын
That was very informative. Thanks👍
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
Vintage 90s greatness.
@mikeo92194 жыл бұрын
Interesting, thank you....my grandfather worked at the Olyphant coal mine
@debradowling8004 жыл бұрын
My family was at Ellen-Gowan. My uncle started in the mines at ten years old, after his dad was killed in a mining accident. Can't imagine how hard life was then.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
@@debradowling800 beyond our imaginations.
@yosters4 жыл бұрын
whos here from NCC
@cruikshank2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. This was very informative. The Lackawanna Mine is the one I haven’t toured yet. I’ve been to the Pioneer & #9 several times and been in some old workings. My Father’s family all came from Wilkes-Barre. After the water was stopped did the ever attempt to retrieve the 12 lost miners? God rest their souls. I was surprised the story on the Sheppton mine accident didn’t mention the one miner who wasn’t retrieved.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
They built a dam around the whole, pumped out the Knox workings and went down. There are Library of Congress photos of this, it showed the crashed coal hopper cars, etc. They tried finding the 12, none were found, they allowed the mine to then re-flood in 1960.
@michaelkaiser46745 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing life with enthusiasm awesome video
@devprice63125 жыл бұрын
Very awesome video I’m from the area I live in Taylor pa about 6 mins away from the coal mine tour
@zanelile7615 жыл бұрын
I have a safety lamp and carbide light passed down from one of my uncles.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
Nice. What mine did they work at if you know by any chance?
@denniswoloch57572 жыл бұрын
Both grandfathers were miners and at least one uncle who was killed. I was eight years old in 1951 and remember the wake clearly. My Father too was a miner. We were from Dickson City.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear. What mines did they work in if I may ask?
@denniswoloch5757 Жыл бұрын
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I'm sorry.My dad mentioned the mine once I don't remember.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
@@denniswoloch5757 blue ridge...does that ring a bell?
@denniswoloch5757 Жыл бұрын
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I just looked a map of the area where my father pointed to....Blue Ridge was in that area. But I don't remember what he said.....Could be.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
@@denniswoloch5757 that's cool man. Probably was that then.
@staceykersting7056 жыл бұрын
Really great movie...Lackawanna Blues
@sexygirlove206 жыл бұрын
very good.... i was surprised that the visitors were not wearing hard hats and lights..... ps coal miner in australia since 1981
@margaretgiuffre62356 жыл бұрын
sexygirlove20
@gfriedman995 жыл бұрын
That Lippe character was a son of a bitch. Special place in hell for him.
@gavinparson71535 жыл бұрын
What are the songs that play in the video
@stevenrowlands56864 жыл бұрын
The red barons became the railriders
@ashleywinter2092 жыл бұрын
So they just never found the bodies?
@AnthraciteHorrorStories Жыл бұрын
Nope, 58 are entombed in Pittston too.
@folday61699 ай бұрын
You ought to ask viewers what the short wooden pegs are called that the miners are holding and what they were used for. Only old timers will get the correct answers. Signed...An Old Timer!