The Abandoned Anthracite Coal Mine Underground Infrastructure Experience. A Rare Sight to Behold! 🇺🇲
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Hello, & welcome to my channel. Please read the full disclaimer to this video. American Industrial History is my passion, it is my one calling in life. I absolutely love the historical anthracite coal mining era of Pennsylvania. I hold a bachelor's degree in History through Bloomsburg University, also a teaching degree through them (I do not use my teaching degree), I have also completed a good chunk of my master's degree with a concentration in American History specifically. I have not finished it yet because of finances! With this said, I have extensively researched the anthracite mining history of our region through not just print, but also physically as evident from this video. I started in 2003/2004 & it has become an expertise harnessed over decades (a life's work). There's always something new to learn, so please feel free to like & subscribe. FULL SERIES OF DISCLAIMERS IS BELOW, PLEASE CONSULT!
This mine like many others, has been destroyed. It is sealed sadly. Concrete was poured into it, thus ruining future wildlife habitats for say, bats, etc. With this said however, YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME POST A LOCATION, A PICTURE OF A MINE (BOTH UNSEALED OR EVEN BAT GATED ONES) OR GIVE DIRECTIONS TO ANYONE & I MEAN ANYONE! I will not post the mine operation name, the CITY where it is, I will not mention the COUNTY NOR will I post what particular Anthracite Coal Field this is in (ex. Northern or Southern, etc.) With this also said, I formerly explored abandoned mines, I no longer do, everything you see here is "past tense" with old clips. When I took these videos, I had no forethought to think they'd be on TH-cam, so if they don't meet your expectations, this may be why. I didn't plan on these being professional grade, as I am a photographer, not videographer. ALSO, NO ONE POST LOCATIONS OF THIS MINE (if it is recognized) OR ANY OTHER MINE. IF YOU KNOW OF ANOTHER MINE, PLEASE DO NOT POST IT ON HERE, CHANCES ARE I ALREADY HAVE SEEN IT TO BE HONEST! I will have to DELETE any comments mentioning locations or even if you ask for locations, these too will be deleted. Sorry for the drama, but there is ENDLESS drama that goes with this hobby. I can write a novel and produce a miniseries on the drama that comes from attempting to be a historian, crawling into a hole in the ground that is abandoned & sharing the history with those that want to learn. It's ridiculous. Scroll down for FULL DISCLAIMER, PLEASE:
DISCLAIMER: Stay Out & Stay Alive!! As you can see from this video, abandoned mines are treacherous. I've worked with the Pa. DEP/Pa. Game Commission (civilian non-employee reporting dangerous mines) over the last 10 plus years to bat gate mines, backfill open vertical shafts that were threats to people & animals, etc.
STAY OUT & STAY ALIVE! I NO LONGER ACTIVELY EXPLORE ABANDONED ANTHRACITE COAL MINES. I HAVE NEARLY 2 DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND AM TRAINED, HAVE OXYGEN, FLAME SAFETY LAMPS, MAPS, MEDICAL TRAINING FROM THE MILITARY, ETC. YOU CAN EASILY GET HURT OR KILLED IN OLD MINES! Black damp can kill you in mere moments & it is something you cannot smell or see, without training & proper equipment, you will succumb to this. No locations will be given or discussed anywhere on my channel; I will delete them if comments as such arise. I always carried a closed-circuit oxygen self-rescuing apparatus that miners carry. Always a had a ridiculous number of batteries & multiples of flashlights themselves, glow sticks, hard hat, tourniquet, maps of the specific mine, a safety party on standby should I not come out at a predetermined time, etc. I kept my explorations as professional as one possibly could. I also had an extensive knowledge as to how & why miners did what they did underground. I knew what could possibly happen to the roof/walls before it happened in a sense. My geology knowledge was something I worked hard at & most people could miss what I often saw thus resulting in collapses, etc. SO PLEASE STAY OUT & STAY ALIVE!
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After responding to a comment from Robert Stevens, I just realized that the Mine Hospital had a dedicated set of elevated tracks in front of it & right off the bottom of the slope. This seems to be a default dedicated route for the medical evacuation (medivac) of the injured miners. Because it was at the bottom of the slope and had its own siding, they would send down an empty coal car from the surface and literally send it right in front of the hospital. Then they would usher in the injured miner and immediately hoist them up the slope and out of the mine! That was the most efficient & caring thing I've seen on the human caring scale while underground in a mine! Wild!!
Spectacular repair shop🎉🎉
It is. A time capsule!
OK, now don't laugh, i forgot i had smooth jazz on Pandora, had mute on, started your video, finally. i was like, damn, no sound, ok i get it, read the subtitles, but i noticed i had it on mute, i unmuted while your video was going, smooth jazz, which i love, LOL, so i watched your video thinking you played smooth jazz, loved your video. LOL. spooky yes, Horton Mine Spooky with the chains, i wanted to go see it, but they closed it off. fun mine and oh yeah, you big tease ok next time. good job and nice clear video, nice camera you used.
Thanks man. Hahahaha. That's funny. You're right, it does have Horton mine vibes!! Hahaha. Creepy as hell with the chains!! Thanks for watching man.
Amazingly well preserved Old Lehigh mine. Must be in the Panther Valley. The mine hospital reminded me of a battalion aid-station somewhere in I-Corps, stabilizing and preparing for medivac. The patient exam table looks like Gettysburg just prior to the soldier being given a bottle of whiskry for anesthesia just prior to his leg being amputated with a meat saw.
The preserved rails throughout the mine are fabulous. It's a snapshot in time, 1960, deep down in the Anthracite coal mine. Remarkable footage. Thanks.
Thanks again for your service Mr. Stevens. Hardcore stuff.
Ya, this was essentially just a triage site to quickly stabilize you and get you the hell out and to the surface. In a way, it was like a medivac LZ. Instead of a Huey helicopter being the vehicle for evac...the 5 ton empty coal car here was! Wonder what hell it witnessed.
This was a Lehigh Valley Coal Co. mine. Not in the Panther Valley. I have to keep locations hidden though and redact colliery names, counties, etc. It's for a whole host of reasons.
This one is sadly sealed shut though. A heartbreaking loss.
Thanks for viewership & more importantly, God bless you Vietnam guys. Love you all.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Major Diddos to ALL Veterans, past, present, and future tense. There's 16.5 million of us who shouldn't be afraid to call a spade a spade! Oorah!
@@robertstevens9656 WW2, Korean War & Vietnam War Marines were absolute bad asses. Semper fidelis!
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As soon as i have time, will watch, but so far the 1st few min. nice job my friend. looks cool
Thanks man! Appreciate the kind words and you watching.
Another great video! I have seen some other vintage footage of this mine as well! Really wild place, lucky you! Keep uploading that vintage footage, we love it!
Thanks man. Yes, I have seen that footage recently too. He's a beast. He hustles fast and hard underground. Hahaha.
I shall keep them coming! Appreciate you!
@15:47 I definitely saw a hand on the wall and I heard breathing. Truly phenomenal remarkable paranormal activity, there’s probably floating helmets with candlelight’s walking around down here.
Hahaha. That's probably just me breathing tbh. The hand prints are from the miners probably. Lots of grease, oil, muck. Could be from past explorers too.
I didn't know what clip you were talking about until I clicked on your tag. Hahaha. I was just trolling here.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories 🤣🤣 reminds me of south park ghost hunters
@@Jason-rn4jk hahahaha. Oh yaaaahhh! I remember that! Hahaha
Cool video! Thank you. A quick suggestion, the added text tends to cover up half of the screen and interferes with seeing the great footage you've got. Try using smaller text just at the bottom of the screen like the way closed captioning works.
Thank you!
Really good video, glad you don't mention the specific areas. This way vintage memorabilia is left for the next explorer.
Thanks. I don't share anything looking out (or in from the surface). This mine is toast though. Sealed shut with concrete unfortunately. This stuff will be down there for eternity.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Back at this video, the sound effects are awesome. Can't picture working in an area like that all day though.
Did you ever think of writing a book about these places? You can have an entire chapter on the elevator/ pristine wood video.
14:55 I was thinking of a coal tour earlier in the video. 18:53 Everyone drank Ideal coffee. I've seen those cans in other videos😆 20:11 I'd like to sample that mold. 21:25 It looks like a torture chamber. That was very interesting. thanks
Hahahaha. Thanks Megan. I have to check out that video song request you sent me. Thanks for that!
Ideal coffee, I remember I brought 2 coffees down here with me on that trip. I'm a coffee freak.
Ya, the area lost out with this one. Many more videos to come of this mine. This is just the beginning.
Ya, that spot was unsettling. Nightmare fuel!
love to see a lidar scan of the entire mine.
Me too. They have underwater drones too. The flooded sections would have been great for those too.
Nice Video 👍👍Birngs back memories when I worked for a construction company and we had to put in Hoppers and conveyors 1000 ft down in a coal mine next day we came back and the entire roof collapsed 😢..we got soooo Lucky !!!
Thank you! Geez, where was that at and when?
@AnthraciteHorrorSto early 90s. It was at Caney Creek Costain coal. Near Clay KY. It was a new slope project..new coal silo and stacking tubes and breaker building. And reclaim tunnel...it was 7 days a week for 15 months..what fun..NOT.
That was incredible! I'm getting up in my years I would have loved to have been able to explore like that thirty years ago.I have always wondered what was down there and you have helped me a great deal with that, Thank You very much.
You still got it in you my friend! You're welcome Bob. Have you done all 3 coal tours? Scranton's, Ashland & Lansford?
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I have been to the one in Scranton and the one in Landsford and they were great I haven't made it to the other one yet but I'll probably get there this year.
@@bobcrawford8713nice. Let me know if you want to go to Ashland. I've been meaning to see the headframe hoist that they got from Mahanoy City & relocated to there! That's a cool tour too. I haven't been there in years.
I will do that,I have been busy working on a renovation inside my house lately but with the nicer weather almost here it's time to get out and look around at things a little more,I shoveled a little over a ton of nut coal today I picked up in ebervale and I'm about ready for three advil and bed.
@@bobcrawford8713 yeah, that's not easy my friend. Blow your nose and you'll see a lot of black in there I bet you!
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I'm kind of glad this is sealed up now. It would suck to see it vandalized and destroyed by those who can't appreciate history. Stoked you uploaded this. Even though I already saw that amazing hoist video, I'm looking forward to it again. This mine was just incredible. ⛏️🪨
Thanks Mike!
I'm not glad, because over time all of these will be sealed up and no one in the future will be able to enjoy the exploration. It sucks, to be honest.
@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 you can't stop it unfortunately. The lands being developed & the State of Pa. has limitless money to destroy them now due to Biden's "infrastructure" law or whatever that thing supposedly is. Unless you physically buy the land where the portals are, can you save these mines. That's it unfortunately.
Awesome video! The labels and saw in the shop blew my mind. Cutting those huge timbers must have taken some effort. The quality of the wood in the offices was especially shocking. It makes me wonder if they treated it or something. Did you come across a large slope near the manway you went in? It’s hard to imagine all those building materials and equipment being hauled in through a mile of small space like that.
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Yes, the manway was parallel to the main haulage slope. I'll have a video of the manway and slope itself on here soon. It is an incredible haulage slope. Very steep in spots too.
The wood had a metal put on the outside of it. It's incredible. It is mind blowing. Best preserved building I've ever seen or been in.
Ya, timbering would have been hard!
I love the coffee cans down there.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I’m looking forward to seeing the updates. It’s great to have that mine recorded especially if it’s being closed.
I live in the same area and do alot of research about the old operations. Grateful for guys like you with the skills and equipment to go on. I just like the history and like searching for the portals but I've only gone in the tours. Can you reach out to me pm so I can ask if you have footage of a particular spot I'd like to see. I don't want to name anything on here be ause yourube ruins so much
Sure. My email is somewhere on the page. If you have a hard time finding it, let me know. Thank you.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories I just rewatched this. This was the first video of yours I watched. Man this is a good mine.
the steel beams look like the rails used by railroads one view shows three drilled holes those would be where rail connecter's would be used a free use of rails that would last longer then wood beams
Yes sir. They were narrow gauge mine rail. Good eye.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories The beams did not appear to be I beams
Very nice video
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words. There will be a new hoist video that I filmed in this mine and also a dedicated video to the manway and slope section. Be sure to tune in for that!
Nice try Mr. Anthracite.... J.F.K.
11/22/1963. I was 5 years old first time in a dentist chair, woke up from anesthesia, everyone was crying and screaming... I thought I was dead. Lol
Yeah poor JFK. Feel bad for the guy, really do. The mine closed the year he was elected. He was in the area too as I've read for campaigning in 60.
That's a scary way to wake up from the dentist, holy crap. Terrible story!
The mines death bed😢
I live a mile from Bethlehem steel
Good stuff.
Powdery mildow mold
I know of a mine entrance in carbon county it's on private property but I know the owner. We would Love to see what's down there
Shoot me an email if you want. My information is in the description of the channel. 🫡
Where. I know a few in CC.
My mom voted for nixon in 1960
I liked Nixon too.