My grandfather and great grandfather both worked at this roundhouse. My great grandfather was the first of the LV officials to meet Lindburgh when he landed at Coxton in a field across from this roundhouse.
The roundhouse with mountains in background at the end of the video is mid 40's Ogden, Utah I live about 6 miles away from what remains which is just a round hole.
My uncle worked for the LV. I remember him taking me to this roundhouse in 1952. He lived on Cliff St in the Junction. I also remember my mother talking about Lindbergh’s landing in Coxton, which btw is located in Duryea, not Pittston.
The town of Martinsburg, WV has preserved most of its roundhouse, although a second on was destroyed by an arsonist. Check it out. Thanks for the video. Edit: camerawork is too jerky, slow pan allows us to see the picture better.
I hate arsonists!! I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a professional videographer, and I don't do TH-cam for money - got too much going on. Part of the problem with this hobby is that there's a possibility you could be trespassing so you don't really spend a lot of time analyzing a shot and you don't do re-dos. As to the slow pan, I did, but there's soo much video, that it's rendered at about 3.5x speed. Then to make it worse, Pinnacle Studio video software is pretty crappy and miserable to work with. I do it for the fun and for the history.
Here is a more kind comment that you are sure to appreciate. I absolutely love your introductory technique with the closet door in your bedroom. What flashes each and every time you open and close it has grabbed my attention to see more. The content of what you have filmed is priceless. My only suggestion I can offer you is to pan much less and let your camera grab the images in front of it slowly. There really is no need for more expensive equipment to produce a much more enticing video. My best recommendation to you as a fellow creator is to slow down which would give us the time to focus in on the scene. You have tremendous potential with your content and I support your future endeavors at producing very interesting content. Best to you!!
I will quickly concur that I agree with what you are saying. I could have made this vid longer thus reducing only speeding up 300x instead of 400x, and honestly, too, my cinematic focus was unfocused as I was more focused on avoiding being seen and escorted off the property, lol. I truly appreciate your comments. I admit all my videos are for my personal consumption and I’m not monetized, but I do want something halfway decent. ( I really do need to switch to another video editor, though -_- ). I’ll take more time filming when I’m less likely to get in trouble 😉
@@NotLost Regardless of anything, it was still a very interesting video. Now I understand how you were careful not to get caught in the act of filming in a place that you perhaps should not have been. Brave on you!
I was there 3 years ago. Such a beautiful roundhouse. The bathroom was straight out of a horror movie. The fact that the tipple is still pretty much intact is rad too. Good stuff 👍
As I told Brian: I think TH-cam is a bad place to explicitly share this, even though there are many clues...too many probably -_- But, you can rest because that's how I found it - in the roundhouse database :)
Epic video. grew up in the Northampton / ironton area. I love LVRR there is a mostly intact round house minus the tracks, on private land but there is a trail behind it you can see it from. I contacted the company who's business owns the land and they let me do a walk around years ago when they were closed for opertations. That part of the yard is storage for the steel the fabricated things they make. There are old steam cranes and back there too. but the building is intact. No more train tracks. No more turntable. But the brick and mortar and wood is still there and for the most part it's preserved. Frozen in time as other industry grew around it. It is the slatebelt section of the RR. I just found out what i thought was the outlet wall for the canal was actually a trestle that got washed out in 1946 and the existing one i know is its replacement built in the 1950s and subsequently was shut down a few years after it was built. According to older locals the collpaseped bridge was built By Jersey central rail road in the late 18 early 1900s to shunt train cars across the river to an area to loop the train around and back across the bridge. I will do more research and get facts. But D&L and Ironton RRs both have a heritage trail that line the river on both sides. People myself included cross the trestle every day. So many locals including myslef know alot about this LVRR i used to jimp from the trestle to the river as a teen. I grew up hiking and fishing on and around that bridge and was taught about the rich history of coal, slate and concrete in the valley like how the former atlas cement plant that shipped 90% of raw material for the Panama Canal concrete from the local quarry in Northampton. my schools team was the Konkrete Kids. It's gratifying to know the history teacher included local lore. Years ago the D&L trail was just that a deer trail over the LVRR tracks. But learning my areas history in more depth is so gratifying.
C9r)oxton? Near Wilkes-Barre? First thought is was Manchester NY ca. 100 miles east of Buffalo which I wandered through in 1983. Once supposedly the World's Largest Relay Yard. Paperwork there was from either 1967 or 1970.
Bright side. Still an active 24/7 yard. Running lots of pulp and sand north. All sorts of goods moving south nightly. With active branches throughout the area. Even you can still find coal trains still running through NEPA.
I found the videography very difficult to follow. I couldn’t focus on anything with all the constant fast panning. Maybe re-film but walkthrough with a slower pace?
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a professional videographer, and I don't do TH-cam for money - got too much going on. Part of the problem with this hobby is that there's a possibility you could be trespassing so you don't really spend a lot of time analyzing a shot and you don't refilm at a slower pace. As to the slow pan, I did, but there's soo much video, that it's rendered at about 3.5x speed. Then to make it worse, Pinnacle Studio video software is pretty crappy and miserable to work with. I do it for the fun and for the history. If you didn't find the history of value, sorry.
When I was a small boy my dad used to take me to the Bethlehem roundhouse down below the old Coca Cola bottling plant to watch the engines and other rolling stock be turned around on the turntable and so on. Later, after Conrail allowed the complex to fall onto ruin my friends and I used to explore the whole thing- it was fascinating and a little dangerous. Even the hobo jungles in the woods by the Lehigh river. We'd spend all day, swimming in the canal and playing army in the old buildings. I saw the last steam engine, which was known as Old Slobberface, and climbed around on it until the bulls chased us off. Hardly anyone in Bethlehem knows anything at all about this old place, just east of the Hump where they sorted out the train cars into other local trains for distribution. The Hump is still there. People would pack lunches and walk along the towpath of the old canal and spend hours watching the cars roll down the Hump and crash into their new trains, to be taken out the west end of the railyard and on to their destinations. The whole place was a fascinating adventure for us kids, and it's all gone now. Progress...
Your video of the old abandoned round house could be better if in panning you would go slower. Count one one thousand, two one thousand, as you pan and what you show would be seen. Otherwise, the round house was acwinderous building. Thanks,
May this country be damned for turning it back on Cole and steam locomotives. All of those skills lost forever. First the steam disappeared then the Diesels disappeared then the railroad disappeared so much for the prosperous new America
Steam power was very inefficient and both manpower, and money, consuming. Railroading is a business! As such, you either keep up, or go out of business. The railroad hasn't disappeared, only changed.
I think TH-cam is a bad place to explicitly share this, even though there are many clues...too many probably -_- But, you can rest because that's how I found it - in the database :)
My grandfather and great grandfather both worked at this roundhouse. My great grandfather was the first of the LV officials to meet Lindburgh when he landed at Coxton in a field across from this roundhouse.
That is too cool! Thanks for the post!
your grandma been to cocks town too i heard.
The roundhouse with mountains in background at the end of the video is mid 40's Ogden, Utah I live about 6 miles away from what remains which is just a round hole.
My uncle worked for the LV. I remember him taking me to this roundhouse in 1952. He lived on Cliff St in the Junction. I also remember my mother talking about Lindbergh’s landing in Coxton, which btw is located in Duryea, not Pittston.
Such a shame
This should be saved and made into a museum
The town of Martinsburg, WV has preserved most of its roundhouse, although a second on was destroyed by an arsonist. Check it out. Thanks for the video. Edit: camerawork is too jerky, slow pan allows us to see the picture better.
I hate arsonists!! I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a professional videographer, and I don't do TH-cam for money - got too much going on. Part of the problem with this hobby is that there's a possibility you could be trespassing so you don't really spend a lot of time analyzing a shot and you don't do re-dos. As to the slow pan, I did, but there's soo much video, that it's rendered at about 3.5x speed. Then to make it worse, Pinnacle Studio video software is pretty crappy and miserable to work with. I do it for the fun and for the history.
Here is a more kind comment that you are sure to appreciate. I absolutely love your introductory technique with the closet door in your bedroom. What flashes each and every time you open and close it has grabbed my attention to see more. The content of what you have filmed is priceless. My only suggestion I can offer you is to pan much less and let your camera grab the images in front of it slowly. There really is no need for more expensive equipment to produce a much more enticing video. My best recommendation to you as a fellow creator is to slow down which would give us the time to focus in on the scene. You have tremendous potential with your content and I support your future endeavors at producing very interesting content. Best to you!!
I will quickly concur that I agree with what you are saying. I could have made this vid longer thus reducing only speeding up 300x instead of 400x, and honestly, too, my cinematic focus was unfocused as I was more focused on avoiding being seen and escorted off the property, lol. I truly appreciate your comments. I admit all my videos are for my personal consumption and I’m not monetized, but I do want something halfway decent. ( I really do need to switch to another video editor, though -_- ). I’ll take more time filming when I’m less likely to get in trouble 😉
@@NotLost Regardless of anything, it was still a very interesting video. Now I understand how you were careful not to get caught in the act of filming in a place that you perhaps should not have been. Brave on you!
@@SWExplore, brave? Others have used other words ;) even myself would say "curious", even though we all know what happened to the curious cat!
I was there 3 years ago. Such a beautiful roundhouse. The bathroom was straight out of a horror movie. The fact that the tipple is still pretty much intact is rad too. Good stuff 👍
Weatherly Pa had a roundhouse they were going to restore. They made some pretty dumb decisions, let it rot and final tore it down.
They probably tried to go on the super cheap, thus, failed on their goal AND lost the money they did invest 🙄
Industry make its millions and walks away...
Too depressing to watch
Where is this place friend??
As I told Brian: I think TH-cam is a bad place to explicitly share this, even though there are many clues...too many probably -_- But, you can rest because that's how I found it - in the roundhouse database :)
Epic video. grew up in the Northampton / ironton area. I love LVRR there is a mostly intact round house minus the tracks, on private land but there is a trail behind it you can see it from. I contacted the company who's business owns the land and they let me do a walk around years ago when they were closed for opertations. That part of the yard is storage for the steel the fabricated things they make. There are old steam cranes and back there too. but the building is intact. No more train tracks. No more turntable. But the brick and mortar and wood is still there and for the most part it's preserved. Frozen in time as other industry grew around it. It is the slatebelt section of the RR. I just found out what i thought was the outlet wall for the canal was actually a trestle that got washed out in 1946 and the existing one i know is its replacement built in the 1950s and subsequently was shut down a few years after it was built. According to older locals the collpaseped bridge was built By Jersey central rail road in the late 18 early 1900s to shunt train cars across the river to an area to loop the train around and back across the bridge. I will do more research and get facts. But D&L and Ironton RRs both have a heritage trail that line the river on both sides. People myself included cross the trestle every day. So many locals including myslef know alot about this LVRR i used to jimp from the trestle to the river as a teen. I grew up hiking and fishing on and around that bridge and was taught about the rich history of coal, slate and concrete in the valley like how the former atlas cement plant that shipped 90% of raw material for the Panama Canal concrete from the local quarry in Northampton. my schools team was the Konkrete Kids. It's gratifying to know the history teacher included local lore. Years ago the D&L trail was just that a deer trail over the LVRR tracks. But learning my areas history in more depth is so gratifying.
C9r)oxton? Near Wilkes-Barre? First thought is was Manchester NY ca. 100 miles east of Buffalo which I wandered through in 1983. Once supposedly the World's Largest Relay Yard. Paperwork there was from either 1967 or 1970.
This roundhouse needs to have restoration as a museum in the future.
Sadly, it's beyond that, and it's off the beaten path.
Oh, I’m very sorry about it.
Bright side. Still an active 24/7 yard. Running lots of pulp and sand north. All sorts of goods moving south nightly. With active branches throughout the area. Even you can still find coal trains still running through NEPA.
I found the videography very difficult to follow. I couldn’t focus on anything with all the constant fast panning. Maybe re-film but walkthrough with a slower pace?
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a professional videographer, and I don't do TH-cam for money - got too much going on. Part of the problem with this hobby is that there's a possibility you could be trespassing so you don't really spend a lot of time analyzing a shot and you don't refilm at a slower pace. As to the slow pan, I did, but there's soo much video, that it's rendered at about 3.5x speed. Then to make it worse, Pinnacle Studio video software is pretty crappy and miserable to work with. I do it for the fun and for the history. If you didn't find the history of value, sorry.
It’s crazy how vandals could destroy a concrete building and mental locomotives .
That was great! You gave plenty of history and took good video. Really enjoyed this. I might go visit
Thank you, well worth it!
Keep these videos coming friend. I’m a fanatic of Pennsylvania railroads.
Thank you sir, Will do my best!
When I was a small boy my dad used to take me to the Bethlehem roundhouse down below the old Coca Cola bottling plant to watch the engines and other rolling stock be turned around on the turntable and so on. Later, after Conrail allowed the complex to fall onto ruin my friends and I used to explore the whole thing- it was fascinating and a little dangerous. Even the hobo jungles in the woods by the Lehigh river. We'd spend all day, swimming in the canal and playing army in the old buildings. I saw the last steam engine, which was known as Old Slobberface, and climbed around on it until the bulls chased us off. Hardly anyone in Bethlehem knows anything at all about this old place, just east of the Hump where they sorted out the train cars into other local trains for distribution. The Hump is still there. People would pack lunches and walk along the towpath of the old canal and spend hours watching the cars roll down the Hump and crash into their new trains, to be taken out the west end of the railyard and on to their destinations. The whole place was a fascinating adventure for us kids, and it's all gone now. Progress...
Your video of the old abandoned round house could be better if in panning you would go slower. Count one one thousand, two one thousand, as you pan and what you show would be seen. Otherwise, the round house was acwinderous building. Thanks,
So was the Lehigh valley a class 1 or a class 2 railroad?
class 1
Semi-useless video. @@christherailfan5851
May this country be damned for turning it back on Cole and steam locomotives. All of those skills lost forever. First the steam disappeared then the Diesels disappeared then the railroad disappeared so much for the prosperous new America
Steam power was very inefficient and both manpower, and money, consuming. Railroading is a business! As such, you either keep up, or go out of business. The railroad hasn't disappeared, only changed.
where is this??? i catalog Roundhouses 2,426 locations of Roundhouses/Turntables in the USA want to make sure i have this one in database .. TY
I think TH-cam is a bad place to explicitly share this, even though there are many clues...too many probably -_- But, you can rest because that's how I found it - in the database :)
@@NotLost coxton road pittston pa
@@ethanlazowski1849 Been there. Even ridden by on the rails. Twice---once behind steam.
Nice just leave a mess for someone else to clean up whatever
It's still an active rail line on the railroad's property, but still, I get what you mean.
ohh man thats an old Baldwin 50 Ton switcher!!!!!
Nope.....thats a Vulcan built in Wilkes Barre.