My grandpa worked that mine. I would visit that area as a kid and always felt like I was going back in time. I toured it once as a teenager but my curiosity and appreciation was not what it is now. Thank you for the video..hits home. 🙏
@austinturby9371 that's so cool to to hear about! My great great grandpa used to work for that coal mine as well! SO COOL TO LEARN ABOUT OUR FAMILY HISTORY!
Enjoyed the tour so much ....lots of history there .Seeing the basket of RR spikes reminded me of the Thanksgiving day many years ago when my sisters and I decided to walk along the track near our house. They had recently done maintenance on the track and as we walked along .we picked up the old spikes that had been tossed aside and put them in our pockets .Our jeans became so loaded down we could hardly hold them up on our walk back home . . Daddy thought we were crazy to be so excited about a bunch of old rusty spikes. ...but to us they were treasures . Watching your videos is like a "treasure hunt " , Jay ...thank you for the fun.
I never knew of this mine until you mentioned it. I like the information that was put out during the tour. Hopefully get to see it next year. Thank you again for another great video.
This is one of the best videos you've done yet. I'm doing my best to make sure that people know about your channel. The rail yard video you did was also a great one (amongst many others), so please don't leave TH-cam. Christmas is always a busy time for everyone, so don't be discouraged. This is also the stuff that needs to be documented. Anthracite coal burns hotter and almost 50% cleaner. It's still a viable option when modern technologies are too expensive. Catalytic converters can destroy the toxins easier, and reburns the smoke, producing even more heat, reducing the amount needed to provide the equal amount of heat.
Why don't they utilize that or a form of that tech to continue to use coal and save an industry that they say is mostly responsible for carbon emissions? If my question is a little vague I can elaborate.
That was a pretty awesome visit jay. I loved all the detail they had in those train layout. So much history in all the items they had on those shelves too. So much authentic items. I really enjoyed the tour. Love all What they had to show. Especially the ride going down. Thanks jay for sharing this with me.
Loved the mine tour, very interesting. The old equipment outside is fascinating, especially the steam powered engines. Awesome video and I thank you so much for taking us along with you.
Pennsylvania, land of coal mines and steel! That was an interesting tour. Never been in a coal mine before only a gold mine. There are obvious similarities as they all follow the vein. Interesting when he was talking about how far the vein goes all the way to Harrisburg, where I was born. Great tour JP, thanks.
I would love to tour this mine. I was a coal mine section mechanic for a few years before hitting the gold field. I loved my time spent in the mines it was a whole different world underground and the guys you work with are your work family. You spend as much time or more with your fellow miners then you do at home. Thank you for the awesome footage.
I took a course in college Marking Art & Design and we made things like at 7:10 but they were mostly buildings. I know how to use an old stove like that. The baby looks like it's in a bath tub of ice cubes. At 8:37- the one with the wringers is what we had to use Up State New York to do our washing in when I was eight. We had the old wooden phone hanging on the wall that you had to pick up the ear piece, wind the phone then talk into the mouth piece and speak to an operator. How things have changed. Can't wait to go in the mine. Thank you for taking us along.
Great video, very interesting. Thanks for posting. I used to visit the White Scar limestone caves in North West England, and at the original turn-around point, they used to kill the lights and what an atmosphere that was. It allowed us to experience how it must have been for the man who scraped though tiny holes from the original entrance. They had a figure laying on its belly,. All he had for light, was a couple of candles fixed to the front of the bowler hat. Thanks again. Jack UK.
Love the walking history lessons 👌😁 I really like all of the old tools that the miners used. Most of what y'all show isn't found in a classroom 😁 Thanks for the tour...very interesting and informative 👍👌😀 Another awesome video 🥰 Thanks for sharing 👍😊🥰 Take care and stay safe ❤🙏
Thank you for this video. It was done beautifully. I was born and raised in this coal region yet have never been on this tour. It’s now on my list to do. I must say I got emotional watching understanding what my great grandparents, uncles and many family members had to endure to put food on the table.
Wow. Larger and more sophisticated than Pioneer. These old mines never get old old for me. Loved that old Dodge! Thank you for filming and including as much as you have. Felt like I was there.
Thank you for sharing. I shared the anthracite region with my wife about 4 years ago and it's one of our favorite places. So much history in that region. You are blessed to be from there Sir. Thank you again!!!
this mine tour and the tour of the associated mining shops is awesome. I've been on several in NE PA region and this one is by far the most interesting and informative. I highly recommend.
It's been many years since I've been here and I could go back a million times ...I love these types of things. Your video was great and the still shots at the end were beautiful!
Very interesting and informative. Have never been in a real coal mine. Just the one at the Science and Industry museum in Chicago which was pretty neat. Thanks JP for another great video.
It is so amazing. We have basements and sometimes live there, but I'm mind boggled at how they almost build complete cities underground and all that massive equipment there. Your guide was very informative.
The Pioneer Mine in Ashland is a neat tour because they have a small steam engine ride you can take and the mine tour has some really neat fossilized prehistoric trees. I also found Scott Crossfield’s signature on a wall. I’ve also taken the #9 tour and it is unique in its own way too. They said the escape shaft comes out above Boyer’s grocery store up on 209. Thanks for filming this.
Awesome Museum, lots of great items. Loved the stove, have cooked on wood stove, not coal. Mine tour was very interesting. All your videos are just incredible Jay! On to the next!! :)
Cooking on a woodburning stove sounds like fun ( and tricky ) ... .have never done that . We have a reproduction one..castiron in antique mold and wired for electricity. ....just love stuff from "the olde days " ..
@@barbara-pigeonbray4579 Yes was tricky trying to keep the heat right. My Grandma was better at cooking on wood stove & in general. Lol Me too love the stuff from olde days! Take care. :)
At-39:51- Isn't that where they showed in a picture that a steel structure was, kind of looked like an oil rig and they said it was no longer there, but maybe the hole is still there and they have it blocked off for safty reasons and maybe to help keep the water out.
Really great video. Remember as a child the “men” coming home from a day at the mines. Thank you. So very interesting. You give us such knowledge about things I could just wonder about as a kid, summering at family farms. You are the best!
Marty Jones.......yes. and lots of memories of the family all being together ..Now, we are spread out ...from Ohio to Fl. ...sure miss the days when we celebrated together at Mama and Daddy's. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and a good time at Sis' tomorrow : )
Great Video!! Never been in a coal mine...not sure if I would be able too...lol...so love seeing your videos on the mines...so much history!!! Thank you!!!
The Coal Miner's Prayer By W. Calvert Each dawn as we rise, Lord we know all too well....We face only one thing, a pit filled with hell. To scratch out a living the best way we can... But deep in the heart, lies the soul of a man.... With black covered faces, and calloused hands, we work in the dark tunnels, unable to stand. To labour and toil as we harvest the coals..... We silently pray..."Lord, please harvest our souls." Thank you coal miners of yester years and also today and their family's. They suffered much and also today to bring light and heat into homes that without their work those homes would have remained dark and cold. What a very brave lot indeed.💖
I dug up one of the Old Company's Lehigh Large porcelain signs near an active Long Island Railroad overpass about 9 years ago. It was rough but it was free.
2:11 Ranchleers and farmers use a similiar alignment of rails as a "cattle guard" because it eliminates the need of a gate to keep cattle in, their hooves can't negotiate the rails. There was a Colorado rep or sen who thought the cattle guards could be retrained for other jobs.
I grew up just up the hill from here on Ridge st. My grandfather was a miner in this mine and possibly other ancestors. I know many of the people who helped clean and open the mine to the public.
There are still a few companies out here in Western Pa that will offer tours of active Longwall mines as long as you have a friend or family member who works there.
Hi Jay, a very cool tour, the tour guide seemed very knowledgeable and really bought the mine to life so to speak. I really loved the photograph you took of the steam train with the sunset behind it, awesome. You are 38 ???, I thought you were younger, I beat you on age as I turned 51 yesterday ;). Thank you for an indepth look at how an Anthracite mine works and thank you for taking us along. x
I don't know if you still can but, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was built over a mine, and had tours. Haven't been in it since i was a kid, long time ago. lol Some of what you showed reminded me a lot of that tour.
Very fascinating video! A horrible, dangerous way to have to earn a living. I didn’t know they had such young boys working in the mines! Really cool equipment outside and an awesome museum inside. Thanks for taking us along with you. I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Great photo montage at the end too!!👍🏻😊
My father his father and his siblings all were born in Lansford, both my grandfather's and some of there sons worked in the #9 and #8. My Great Grandfather was killed in the #8 in 1948
Pretty sure the lockers that were suspended from chains in the air served two purposes ,to keep Rats from getting into your stuff and to stop theft ! I delivered to foundries in Erie ,Pa in the 1980's and many locker rooms had open rooms with benches and chain lockers suspended in the air!
My grandpa worked that mine. I would visit that area as a kid and always felt like I was going back in time. I toured it once as a teenager but my curiosity and appreciation was not what it is now. Thank you for the video..hits home. 🙏
@austinturby9371 that's so cool to to hear about! My great great grandpa used to work for that coal mine as well! SO COOL TO LEARN ABOUT OUR FAMILY HISTORY!
Enjoyed the tour so much ....lots of history there .Seeing the basket of RR spikes reminded me of the Thanksgiving day many years ago when my sisters and I decided to walk along the track near our house. They had recently done maintenance on the track and as we walked along .we picked up the old spikes that had been tossed aside and put them in our pockets .Our jeans became so loaded down we could hardly hold them up on our walk back home . . Daddy thought we were crazy to be so excited about a bunch of old rusty spikes. ...but to us they were treasures . Watching your videos is like a "treasure hunt " , Jay ...thank you for the fun.
Glad you made it in time to watch. 💙
Love those mine tours. Thanks
Fascinating place. Thanks, Jay. And great photography!
I never knew of this mine until you mentioned it. I like the information that was put out during the tour. Hopefully get to see it next year. Thank you again for another great video.
I love them small tucked away places. Very good alternative to the lackawanna county mine tour.
This was really cool, I really love these coal mine tours.
Me too. Ill be doing more in the spring
This is one of the best videos you've done yet. I'm doing my best to make sure that people know about your channel. The rail yard video you did was also a great one (amongst many others), so please don't leave TH-cam. Christmas is always a busy time for everyone, so don't be discouraged. This is also the stuff that needs to be documented. Anthracite coal burns hotter and almost 50% cleaner. It's still a viable option when modern technologies are too expensive. Catalytic converters can destroy the toxins easier, and reburns the smoke, producing even more heat, reducing the amount needed to provide the equal amount of heat.
You can reuse almost anything if you really need to. We need to all have the same hope. It makes sense biologically.
Why don't they utilize that or a form of that tech to continue to use coal and save an industry that they say is mostly responsible for carbon emissions? If my question is a little vague I can elaborate.
That was a pretty awesome visit jay. I loved all the detail they had in those train layout. So much history in all the items they had on those shelves too. So much authentic items. I really enjoyed the tour. Love all What they had to show. Especially the ride going down. Thanks jay for sharing this with me.
Loved the mine tour, very interesting. The old equipment outside is fascinating, especially the steam powered engines. Awesome video and I thank you so much for taking us along with you.
Pennsylvania, land of coal mines and steel! That was an interesting tour. Never been in a coal mine before only a gold mine. There are obvious similarities as they all follow the vein. Interesting when he was talking about how far the vein goes all the way to Harrisburg, where I was born. Great tour JP, thanks.
Always fun and interesting to learn about our local history.
Love these tours
This was a excellent tour these mines are so interesting that's all I can say. One will never find this information in a history book.
Very nice! Reminded me of the salt mine tour I had in Salzburg Austria.
Another great find jp.
I would love to tour this mine. I was a coal mine section mechanic for a few years before hitting the gold field. I loved my time spent in the mines it was a whole different world underground and the guys you work with are your work family. You spend as much time or more with your fellow miners then you do at home. Thank you for the awesome footage.
I took a course in college Marking Art & Design and we made things like at 7:10 but they were mostly buildings.
I know how to use an old stove like that. The baby looks like it's in a bath tub of ice cubes. At 8:37- the one with the wringers is what we had to use Up State New York to do our washing in when I was eight. We had the old wooden phone hanging on the wall that you had to pick up the ear piece, wind the phone then talk into the mouth piece and speak to an operator. How things have changed.
Can't wait to go in the mine. Thank you for taking us along.
Great video, very interesting. Thanks for posting. I used to visit the White Scar limestone caves in North West England, and at the original turn-around point, they used to kill the lights and what an atmosphere that was. It allowed us to experience how it must have been for the man who scraped though tiny holes from the original entrance. They had a figure laying on its belly,. All he had for light, was a couple of candles fixed to the front of the bowler hat. Thanks again. Jack UK.
Love the walking history lessons 👌😁 I really like all of the old tools that the miners used. Most of what y'all show isn't found in a classroom 😁
Thanks for the tour...very interesting and informative 👍👌😀
Another awesome video 🥰 Thanks for sharing 👍😊🥰
Take care and stay safe ❤🙏
Thank you for this video. It was done beautifully. I was born and raised in this coal region yet have never been on this tour. It’s now on my list to do. I must say I got emotional watching understanding what my great grandparents, uncles and many family members had to endure to put food on the table.
I appreciate you watching. Taking the tour in person is the best way to appreciate the hardship of those who risked their lives for a few cents a day.
Wow. Larger and more sophisticated than Pioneer. These old mines never get old old for me. Loved that old Dodge! Thank you for filming and including as much as you have. Felt like I was there.
Pioneer is next on the list.
Thank you for sharing. I shared the anthracite region with my wife about 4 years ago and it's one of our favorite places. So much history in that region. You are blessed to be from there Sir. Thank you again!!!
Thanks for watching
this mine tour and the tour of the associated mining shops is awesome. I've been on several in NE PA region and this one is by far the most interesting and informative. I highly recommend.
Cool video. My Fathers Dad worked both the mine and the #9 Breaker. 1st as a breaker boy and then as a miner. Spent many a summer in Lansford.
Thanks JP this was very interesting
It's been many years since I've been here and I could go back a million times ...I love these types of things. Your video was great and the still shots at the end were beautiful!
Better make a trip back in the spring
Great video! Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland is cool too..
Unusual locomotive in the begining. Neat gift shop and great tour. Thank you for a terrific time.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That locomotive is made small in size for mine work.
I will patiently wait!
🤗
Very interesting and informative. Have never been in a real coal mine. Just the one at the Science and Industry museum in Chicago which was pretty neat. Thanks JP for another great video.
Love all that old stuff . Things were made so much better back then . ( except) the light for the mines . Thank you this was so cool .
Very true
It is so amazing. We have basements and sometimes live there, but I'm mind boggled at how they almost build complete cities underground and all that massive equipment there. Your guide was very informative.
Its impressive what they were able to construct back in the 1800s.
Thank you so much for taking and sharing this tour!
You're welcome
Thanks for doing a mine. I love touring old mines. Great video! See ya on the next one!
You're welcome shelley
The Pioneer Mine in Ashland is a neat tour because they have a small steam engine ride you can take and the mine tour has some really neat fossilized prehistoric trees. I also found Scott Crossfield’s signature on a wall. I’ve also taken the #9 tour and it is unique in its own way too. They said the escape shaft comes out above Boyer’s grocery store up on 209. Thanks for filming this.
Cool interesting video friend keep them coming but please stay safe friend from Scotland
This mine is right down the road from my house. I take my son there often. Never a boring trip/tour.
Lucky kid 😁
Great video. I worked in the soft coal mines in western PA for 17 years.
Is that a orb or a reflection at 26:27. It goes away and comes back in other places too.
I believe lens flare
My grandfather worked that mine. He lived up in Summit Hill. Ive been to that mine many times.
St watching while do some beading. So interesting. Thanks for the tour.
Awesome Museum, lots of great items. Loved the stove, have cooked on wood stove, not coal. Mine tour was very interesting. All your videos are just incredible Jay! On to the next!! :)
Cooking on a woodburning stove sounds like fun ( and tricky ) ... .have never done that . We have a reproduction one..castiron in antique mold and wired for electricity. ....just love stuff from "the olde days " ..
@@barbara-pigeonbray4579 Yes was tricky trying to keep the heat right. My Grandma was better at cooking on wood stove & in general. Lol
Me too love the stuff from olde days! Take care. :)
Nice mine tour, ty jay👍👍👍
My pleasure
Best videos keep up the great video making Jay
Very cool .
Mine tours are fun to take on a hot Summer day because the mines are always in the 50s so it’s a good way to cool off.
My town!! Live right down the road...
Thank you so much for the trip out. Jay I enjoyed the ride down under 👌. Good info to. AllieJo.
At-39:51- Isn't that where they showed in a picture that a steel structure was, kind of looked like an oil rig and they said it was no longer there, but maybe the hole is still there and they have it blocked off for safty reasons and maybe to help keep the water out.
That was AWESOME, only thing when he turned the lights out... that would of freaked me out.... baby did well. Thanks for another great adventure.
@Bill Williams So very close to experiencing blindness.
It gave me a better understanding of what it was like working in the mines back then.
That's the purpose. Thanks for watching.
Really great video. Remember as a child the “men” coming home from a day at the mines. Thank you. So very interesting. You give us such knowledge about things I could just wonder about as a kid, summering at family farms. You are the best!
Thanks Michele
This was so fascinating!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
💙
Reminder is set , looking forward to the video ... but may be late for the premier ...Thanksgiving pie and coffee at my sister's : )
Have a great time at your sisters. I am having lunch with mine tomorrow. Great holiday memories for us. :)
Marty Jones.......yes. and lots of memories of the family all being together ..Now, we are spread out ...from Ohio to Fl. ...sure miss the days when we celebrated together at Mama and Daddy's. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and a good time at Sis' tomorrow : )
Great Video!! Never been in a coal mine...not sure if I would be able too...lol...so love seeing your videos on the mines...so much history!!! Thank you!!!
Super museum. Informative tour ☺👍
Just wanted to let you no I subscribed today after watching a few of your videos .you do a wonderful job keep up the good work jp.
Thanks sherry
Back in the day my father was a coal miner. Never got to see the inside of it. Thank you JP it took 66 years to see one. Very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it
wow I need to go to these places, so freaking cool
Really interesting, enjoyed very much !
Ty
Awesome footage. Horrible how young the kids were when they starting working in the mines. The elevator shaft was unreal.
Went on the tour week before memorial day with my son was originally doing the Lackawanna tour but it was closed. Turned out to also be very good.
All 3 in the area are fantastic and offer something different.
That was a very interesting tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
The Coal Miner's Prayer
By W. Calvert
Each dawn as we rise, Lord we know all too well....We face only one thing, a pit filled with hell.
To scratch out a living the best way we can... But deep in the heart, lies the soul of a man....
With black covered faces, and calloused hands, we work in the dark tunnels, unable to stand.
To labour and toil as we harvest the coals.....
We silently pray..."Lord, please harvest our souls."
Thank you coal miners of yester years and also today and their family's. They suffered much and also today to bring light and heat into homes that without their work those homes would have remained dark and cold.
What a very brave lot indeed.💖
Great video over the top 👍
Very interesting video, i loved it, good job
that steam loco is a Saddle Tank design with the water tank on top of the boiler. Eliminates the need for a trailing tender
awesome video jp liked
Ty
We really enjoyed this video! It made us want to drive the 23 hours it is from us to visit it
Really?
@@JPVideos81 we're seriously thinking about planning a trip now. My son's 5 and he is absolutely obsessed with mines. He loves your videos
If you drive that far to see this one, I also recommend the Lackawanna county coal mine tour which I also did a video on.
I dug up one of the Old Company's Lehigh Large porcelain signs near an active Long Island Railroad overpass about 9 years ago. It was rough but it was free.
👍Thanks Jay. Very interesting and the history
My pleasure
2:11 Ranchleers and farmers use a similiar alignment of rails as a "cattle guard" because it eliminates the need of a gate to keep cattle in, their hooves can't negotiate the rails.
There was a Colorado rep or sen who thought the cattle guards could be retrained for other jobs.
I grew up just up the hill from here on Ridge st. My grandfather was a miner in this mine and possibly other ancestors. I know many of the people who helped clean and open the mine to the public.
Awesome
Great video! Like the montage too! 👍
Ty
Great video j p thank you. 👍
There are still a few companies out here in Western Pa that will offer tours of active Longwall mines as long as you have a friend or family member who works there.
Hi Jay, a very cool tour, the tour guide seemed very knowledgeable and really bought the mine to life so to speak. I really loved the photograph you took of the steam train with the sunset behind it, awesome. You are 38 ???, I thought you were younger, I beat you on age as I turned 51 yesterday ;). Thank you for an indepth look at how an Anthracite mine works and thank you for taking us along. x
Most people think im older, so i take that as a compliment.
Very educational
Pretty cool !
Love the Video JP
Ty
wow loved it
Ty
I don't know if you still can but, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was built over a mine, and had tours. Haven't been in it since i was a kid, long time ago. lol Some of what you showed reminded me a lot of that tour.
Never knew that
Great job on the video!!! Thanks for the shoutout
No problem
Cool video!
Ty
very educational thank you
You're welcome
Just watched this. Great mine to tour! Not sure I'd take a baby in there though... Otherwise looked fun!
I wouldn't recommend taking a baby, but it's definitely worth seeing.
Very fascinating video! A horrible, dangerous way to have to earn a living. I didn’t know they had such young boys working in the mines! Really cool equipment outside and an awesome museum inside. Thanks for taking us along with you. I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Great photo montage at the end too!!👍🏻😊
Thanks so much tara
Awesome train jp.
My father his father and his siblings all were born in Lansford, both my grandfather's and some of there sons worked in the #9 and #8. My Great Grandfather was killed in the #8 in 1948
So cool
🙂
You had a like the minute I saw the narrow gauge tracks!
Thanks!
@@JPVideos81 I love old locomotives and trains as you do. Narrow gauge and steam is even better! Thanks JP!
Come to West Virginia to the Beckley coal mine expedition
I'll look into it
This was awesome, thankyou for sharing:)… Jay, have you been to see the Indian Echo Caverns PA ? I think you will love that, if you haven't :)
Hope to get there sometime
Pretty sure the lockers that were suspended from chains in the air served two purposes ,to keep Rats from getting into your stuff and to stop theft ! I delivered to foundries in Erie ,Pa in the 1980's and many locker rooms had open rooms with benches and chain lockers suspended in the air!
Sweet 👍! I'd love to go explore 😊 in a Mine if I had the chance 😊 JPVideos!!!!!!!!!!
Its a unique experience
@@JPVideos81 I really need to do that sometime.
That old steam engine looks very interesting
Ha ha I just noticed the guys on top🤣👍
12:00 damn, who's making all the freaking noise in the background?
I juste watch one of your vidéo in a nine and it was crazy and a was scare for you ... But i'l ne patiently wait for Watching it !!! Hihi
That was awesome but scary. Wouldn’t want to do that work.
What is the complete location so we can come down and look at it from Kentucky?
Just google lansford #9 mine