If you go to pittston there's a mine there they sealed up. 113 men are at the bottom. My grandfather was a demolition expert and was told to blow a wall. He refused saying if he did that the river would come in and kill everyone. His boss insisted and pop told him where to stick his job.

I used to deliver the liquor stores in that area.Always wanted to explore the area,I'm fascinated by the coal mining history of our area.I really enjoy your channel

Really good video. Thanks for posting. Amazing that so much is still intact.

Thanks for sharing life with enthusiasm awesome video

Thanks for taken us along. Great video.

My summer of 1959 was spent at my aunt house in Kulpmont Pa . which is close to Shamokin PA. I was told to stay out of the old mines so I only went in the entrance of the solid rock mines and avoided all those timber mines entrances. As a kid of 12 I had a hell of a good time checking out those old mines around Kulpmont Pa. It is still hard to believe that 180,000 people worked in those hard coal mines during those good times. In Kulpmont Pa.during the 60s less then a quarter mile behind Ash st and behind a kids park there were dozens of open square shaft vents or exits from the mines below. There were so many mines your eyes never left the path in fear you might fall in and never be seen again. During the 80s a young couple were driving back there and drove right into a mine one night sad. Most of the people that lived in Kulpmont Pa . during the 1960s came from the same area in Europe around the Ukraine.

Thanks that was fantastic. Loved the brickwork of the wall

Great find and great video 👍

Love the history and remains and also beautiful area!!!!

I've been watching a lot of your videos I really enjoy Pa as well..I can show you a lot of places around the Shamokin Ashland area

I've been watching a lot of your videos and just came across this one! I live right at the bottom of the Glen!

Awesome video! Videos like this are what got me hooked on your channel, I'd definitely like to see more of this place, very interesting.

My goodness, this was/is a complex place. Thank you for the adventure, and thank you for being safe.

Awesome video. It's cool it's cool to see that some things are still intact up there.

Wish you could do the coal mines in WilkesBarre! My grandfather and his brother both worked in those mines. Sadly, my great uncle died in a cave in. Thank you for all the sharing of this kind of forgotten history! Awesome job! This is my first time!

Your video is awesome! I was born in Shamokin, and used to climb the coal hills when I was a kid. The mining was strong and they even had mining tours. Everything you found is really very cool. Thank you for sharing this!

My home town!!!!! Thanks for the video!!

Gotta love coal country history...😊

Outstanding Adventure, Well Done. 👍

Great video , thank you

Grew up in minersville, really appreciate your time and videos. Takes me back. Would like to discuss other locations with you. Ones nobody else knows about. Father was chief of police in Cass township, and even he didn't know of my discoveries til I showed him.

Lots of good stuff there, an awesome area to wander in the woods

The big drum was the cable winch that pulled the dinky cars up the mountain. There were two small cable cars that took the spoils from the breaker up the mountain and then they were hauled to the current dumping spot on the very large coal bank in large Euclid dump trucks

I love how you bring a level-headed approach to your adventures- not a reckless daredevil but curious & brave enough to go into places I wouldn’t! (Arachnophobe) the cave-like entrance at 15:40 is fascinating, for the tilt of rock layers and obvious seam of coal. I’d expect a more modern way into the mine is somewhere- but that looks like a hand-dug version!

This is by far my favorite video of yours.

Great video

It looked like most of the building we're pumping stations.

great investigation...enjoyed your video...Western Canada

Cool, you helped me remember sitting on my GMA's porch, watching the coal carts. Pulled up the mountain. We lived in Shamokin as a kid!

COoooool.I love this kind of stuff.

No wonder my Pop worked in the old mines, he was born in Shamokin, PA in 1913. Sure enjoyed the Mines he took me thru back in the 60s.

My Grandfather and Father both worked in the Mines in that area. My Grandfather worked 50 years in the mines going in at 11 years old in the 1800's , my Father went in the mines in 1930 at 14 yrs old.

Some of that looked like air compressors for pumping air into the mine. The other stuff might have been pumps to pump water out of the mines into those troughs. Totally wild . I was just near there looking for the Plane in Manahoy. Great stuff.

Nice video I'm born and raised in Shamokin

i live not too far from here and wanted to do a video on this place as well, but im like you not sure what everything is i hope someone can give us a lil history lesson on this stuff. great video buddy cant wait to see your return visit maybe you can find out more info on your return

That big "Wheel" I believe is a cable hoist, and yes, it would have been used to pull the coal cars out of the mine. Back where I am from in WA state we had a lot of coal mines. One town in particular had a cable hoist, but nothing is left of it, so to see this cable hoist I can get a better picture as to what the hoist would have looked like. Very cool stuff! I completely agree with your statement about preserving history. Things should not be torn down, but rather preserved in such a way that everyone can enjoy. Keep it up! Love your videos!

My buddy was born in Shamokin and his grandfather worked in the coal mine really interesting

I know a lot about SW Pa , like your videos about NE Pa

great video from Steve Manning in catlettsburg Kentucky

You'd like Eckley Miner's village, it's a preserved coal mining town, you've probably heard of it but it's awesome there!

Great exploration! You are correct, it is sad that this site could not be salvaged and made into a living museum, in some manner. The younger generations who know only the digital world do not have a theoretical or practical knowledge of what humans can engineer and do by brain and by hand.

I know that area pretty good. You should look for Geocaches while you're out in those cool places!

I wish you could do the NJ Zinc Company in Palmerton PA. My grandfather worked there in the early 1920s and my uncle worked there.

Some of those buildings were pump house's and some of machinery were old Goyne pumps, i guess they were pumping water up to seperate the coal from the rock because coal floats

Fascinating how Mother Nature is taking back and reclaiming the abandoned mines. My Grandfather was a coal miner in Shamokin; he arrived in PA after emigrating from Poland around 1906. Shamokin was once a thriving area thanks to the mines, silk mills, and woolen mills (my Grandmother worked in the mills). Once those industries died, Shamokin began a sad, slow decline.

awesome ruins dude i grew up in coal mining country in central pa many moons ago...but wats great is no graphetti

I use to work with someone who use to work at the Glen Burn Colliery Shamokin Pa. The Glen Burn colliery was owned by the Susquehanna Coal Company Nanticoke Pennsylvania. I had relatives who worked for the Susquehanna Coal Company in Nanticoke.

Thank you.

That's awesome!!! I wonder what kinda story's would of come out of this place🙂

I'd really enjoy seeing this. I'm only 20 minutes or so away.

My great great grandfather, Henry Trego, was killed in a mining accident at the Bear Valley mine in 1873.

In the 70 years of operations, the Cameron produced 300,000 tons of anthracite coal.

enjoyed the tour and the comments. Some people knew what some of the machinery was. if no one wanted to preserve history the area could use the money from recycling all the iron and other metals to create new industries in the area.

Just was in bamse coffee, and they had a great picture of this place.

If that was the cable hoist you were standing by, does that mean there was a vertical shaft beneath it or was this a horizontal hoist? Is there a safety risk if there was a shaft imedeatly below there? I couldn't tell from what was left of the structure which direction (vertical/horizontal the loading was applied to the hoist. Anyone know?

There's abandoned mine drainage all over PA...you don't have to go far to find it...

The whaleback is a cool coal formation

Nice

Dare you to take a shot every time he says "cool."

I live in nepa and I always am looking for cool old stuff

When I was in grade school, after a torrential rain the culm bank muck came into the city streets.

The other things you can check out next time there is Duncan donuts, it's a big deal there, and my favorite, james pizza.

My partner said he used to have a job hauling trailers (temporary homes) for the coal miners working there. He wants to make a drive up there. He said the roads would sometimes cave in from the mines. Similar to Centralia?

Can u say Mollie Maguires...great videos.

All of the metal was scrapped by the owners in June of 2019

Hi. New fan!! Like to ask you some questions please thx?

It takes a lot manpower and $ to build these structures to mine....What do you think would be a percentage of cost to mine versus the profits of mining?

A few miles from there is the, almost, abandoned town of Centralia where the coal mine has been burning underground for years.

What part of town is this?

Looks like you're at the glenn burn it use to be a very large coal mine Google it the buildings ran all the way up the side of the mountain there was also one that the mine itself was still intact but I think they might have bulldozed over it

If you Google Glen Burn Colliery there is lots of information including articles, videos, and photos. Lots of history. I remember the name Glen Burn very well because my father ordered and we burned coal from there.

Maybe the ones In charge of the town would let people volunteer to clean it up would be cool

do a google search on the whales back you would like that it's in the shamokin area

we should go explore some abandoned places here in Ga

i wonder how long it's been since that facility was producing product

I'm sure your blind subscribers appreciate you describing exactly what is shown on camera. Thank you for your inclusiveness.

I go to school there and I have been three

Great videos, I live in Pa, been to Centralia many times , need to go back and check out some of the stuff i missed that you show on your videos . In interested in this one , where in Shamokin is this , can you give me a leed to get there , either off 61 or what ever road to the old mines, thanks.

what road did you take to reach this area?

around locust dale there is places to explore just be mindful of where you park, i would say park at the end of fire house hill rd. there is a place on the right of the tracks heading west that has a mine opening that water pours out of when it rains hard. and in image 1 where the telephone pole is go north and then east on the path and you will find the base of a structure. www.google.com/maps/@40.7782699,-76.3788499,167m/data=!3m1!1e3 . 2nd image www.google.com/maps/@40.7793663,-76.3761352,268m/data=!3m1!1e3 still going east take the 2nd left heading north walk a bit and you will see a steep slope to your left/west and will see a mine opening in the side of the slope. 3rd image www.google.com/maps/@40.7824602,-76.3774086,371m/data=!3m1!1e3 if you remain on the north path, there is a structure to the right/east and from what i can remember it goes way down. and if you keep going up the path it splits, go north and stick to the left and there use to be some buildings up there and a huge mine opening with a sliding door on top of it. i can see the remains of the buildings but not the opening. there has been mining going on in the area in the last few years so it may be active in some parts. and stick to well worn paths. years ago i was up walking a path i used all the time, i had used the day before this day i was walking and 2 large sink holes opened in and area next to the path. after that i walked way around to avoid the sink holes. and if you look at the aerials of the area you will see blue/green water near the paths, years ago the area around the water was extremely steep going to the waters edge, so be careful.

Does shamokin allow smokin?

One of the tunnels is collapsed behind my house

Do you ever get to the Wilkes Barre area I know where there is a old mine shaft in the woods

This is where i live

Shamokin is actually a city notta town

I know ! but way Cool ! 🤣😀 ! 👍👍👍👍 ! ! !

This is my town i commonly go up there

If there are no openings in the sides, the purpose of the metal troughs running down hill was likely to run the water that typically has to be pumped out of a mine down to a stream below. Similar metal troughs--but with openings in the sides-- were part of the system for separating the anthracite from other rock by breaker boys, crippled older miners, and sometimes even girls. There are good photographs of this in a book that I highly recommend: The Kingdom of Coal; Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields by two Anthracite Region locals, Prof. Donald L. Miller and reporter Richard E. Sharpless, published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1985 ISBN 0-8122-1201-0 Thanks very much for this documentary video.

Go out the 3rd patch

The wheel kinda looks like it could have been something to do with ventilation

That orange water will be iron ore from the so called mines.

I would disagree that it's cool. I think depressing is more like it. There used to be a tourist venue where people could go down into the mine. I think Ashland may still have a working museum. You might want to check out Centralia, but I don't know how close you can get. At some point it's closed off. I've heard that the culm bank is the largest in the Western hemisphere, that there might be a larger one in Japan. Also, it's one fire, like Centralia, and when the wind blows a certain way, you can smell it where you're living. I was reminded of it when I went to college in West Philly, and on some days we could smell the sulphur from the tank farms in South Philly. The most interesting thing I can tell you was that when I attended the Washington elementary school, one night the was a torrential downpour, and the muck from the culm bank flowed into the town and into some people's basements and kitchens. They let us out at noon, and I found a street to wade across where it was only up to my ankles, pretty dangerous for elementary school kids, because we could easily have tripped and fallen into it. A friend told me that whereas Shamokin used to be known for coal, now it's known for crystal meth. A claim to fame is that St. Edward's church was the first to be electrified. A more interesting place to visit would be Sunbury, another depressed town 20 miles west of Shamokin, where the Hotel Edison, which I think is still functioning, was the first hotel to be electrified, and Edison lived in Sunbury for a time. Northumberland, across the river was the home of Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen. I hate to think about what people were breathing before that event. Sunbury, by the way, is the county seat of Northumberland County, so you could visit the courthouse. As far as I know there isn't a single higher education establishment in the county. The most prominent one nearly is Bloomsburg University, which most Shamokin graduates would choose. The two most prominent private universities are Susquehanna, whose beautiful campus is in Selinsgrove, and Bucknell University, located in Lewisburg, which I think has the feel of a southern college town. Students from Shamokin High used to drive to Bucknell for enrichment classes on Saturday mornings and then go to lunch at the Bison restaurant.

thats the hoist and hoist house shaft would not be far

the river is made of what we call indian clay that is why it looks orange

Gas meter and a helmet. But they collapse when they want to. No warning Jeffrey it happens. Remember also that they were digging for profit early on, not safety

"Whaleback", unique geographically geological formation

Because of this video more people started showing up; now all the buildings got torn down and the mine backfilled. Thanks 😠

Easy to see OSHA was not around in those days

They made a "slurry" of the coal and used water to transport it

Pumphouse and hoist