I've lived in WV all my life and I can tell you for a fact 90% of WV is 4 to 6 ft of dirt covering solid rock, I'm 60 yrs old and when I was a teen all us boys dug graves for every family within 25 miles and there were very few we didn't have to use TNT in the last couple ft.
@Donald Donald just about any where as long as you've got good light in a rural area, but they grow apples and wine grapes in the NE of the state and Clay county is where the yellow delicious was first found, I live in Kanawha county on 22 acres and when I was a kid there was 52 apple trees, 20 peach trees, and there were pair trees, walnut, hazalnut and chestnut, trees, and we picked 5 gal buckets of blackberries and raspberries, and had plenty of strawberries from moms patch, but sad to say it's all grown up and most of it has died from neglect
I’m from Vermont and my uncles and I come down most years in April to canoe on the South branch of the Potomac. When I’m in Your state, I feel like I’m in Northern Vermont. It looks very similar. The people are friendly and cool. Lots of city people have moved up here. They have changed everything. The kids are going to graduate High school in a few years. I’m thinking about moving near Romney/Springfield area of your state. I promise you and the people of WV, I will not do what was done to my community. Hopefully WV can remain true for generations to come.
@@greenmountainhellhound6835 thank's I'm proud to be from WV and I've found that in most other states people from WV are well liked because we are just down home people and I hope ypu can join us your more than welcome here
At 16:29 remains are probably an old root cellar for storing food in winter. Worked in N. Central Wv as rural surveyor for 35 years. This video looks like my office.
I'm from W.V. originally and I really appreciate your videos. I grew up in Montgomery, W.V. and when I was a kid it was a pretty nice town that had everything your needed, except a movie theater. We had a large city pool, department stores, nice local mom and pop restaurants and shops. When the mine jobs started disappearing and we lost W.V. Tech the town really started to vanish. It's just so sad to see a once prosperous area turn to a ghost town.
Both of my parents went to WV Tech in the '50s. They worked at the A&P while going to school. We moved from Boomer in 1960. We went to Montgomery in the summer to visit our grandparents. Loved the pool, Murphy's 5 & 10¢ store. The park across the river in Smithers. Wonderful memories.
Was just up that way earlier today. They had a cave in across the river from Montgomery Hospital. It looks so desolate compared from the times you were talking about. I’m not from there (I’m from the Seth area) but we traveled all up in there when I was growing up. We had family in Smithers and Montgomery. and my Grandparents are buried at London Cemetery. We always made stops all through there to eat and that area always had really good mom and pop diners. All those places are gone now. Really sad. When I was a teenager it was a “happenin” place. LoL because of Tech. It’s sad to see things so drastically. I bet it was nice living there back in the day.
I was graduated from Montgomery high school in 1964 and at that time, we did have a movie theater. It cost 25 cents to see a movie. I now live in Nebraska but miss those WV hills very much. May God bless us all
Seeing those old abandoned homestead’s is so sad. I think of the hardworking families living in them, leaving because of the economy. In Virginia around Skyline Drive, the houses are mostly gone, but cemetaries remain. I wonder if any of those homes could be rehabbed?
It causes the mind to wonder about those gone before, the stories of their lives, their troubles and trials ... what made them laugh or cry.... Life was hard no doubt, but good in ways, to be sure. Writers and poets could have a field-day exploring such places. Interesting video...greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Monroe County west Virginia,is probably the most beautiful County and place on God Green earth.the people there are really blessed to be able to live and be there,you know that the whole big beautiful County has not one red or signal light in it.to me that pretty cool now,it's so beautiful and so clean to go there and be there that I'd love to have me a really nice farm there and and that way I'd really know that I was in heaven.so Monroe County people you are most luckiest people on God's green earth to have just one inch of heaven of Monroe County beautiful land now 💯🇺🇸👏👌👍🤞🌻❤😁‼️
My home is Bluefield, Mercer County, WV and raised in Covington, Alleghany County, VA. Monroe County is between the two. I believe all three are God's countries, the most beautiful mountain area you'd ever wish to see!!
SO BEAUTIFUL, OH HOW I MISS MY WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS.. HOME.. I'VE MOVED TO SOUTH TEXAS, BY THE BORDER OF MEXICO, AND IT IS MISERABLE HERE FOR ME... THE LANGUAGE BARRIER, POVERTY, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONSTANTLY, WITH BORDER PATROL AND HELICOPTERS CIRCLING CONSTANTLY.. WHAT A MISTAKE I'VE MADE, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF WORK... NO PEACE, OR PIECE OF MIND.. LORD HELP ME GET BACK, I DON'T WANT TO DIE HERE, I WOULD RATHER HAVE MY MOUNTAINS ..
Move back. I'd rather work at McDonald's and live in the mountains then live where your at and make 75/80 K a year. Lived in Houston for 3 yrs, back in the early 80's. Living on disability in Wv. And it's a satisfying way of life.
Oh boy, b4 you get too much of a senior citizen, please move back to WV. I know you would be happier there reminiscing and enjoying your childhood area.
Being called a Mexican Hillbilly all my 49years of life, didn’t bother me at all until the last few years. My dad’s family is from West Virginia and both his parents were born there. I loved to visit every summer and walking through the holler to go get me pop and candy at the General store. My mom’s dad is from Laredo Texas and her mom is from Detroit Michigan. So my grandparents never taught his 7 kids the Mexican language. Bad mistake, the grandkids could have really used that Mexican language. Especially for the Officers in my family and my son. I love both of my cultures and was raised the south Pentecostal way and my Mexican way. I have really been doing my ancestry tree of my Moore side and went back as far as my 5th great grandfather, and it shows on my DNA matches that the Moore side came from Scotland and Europe over on a boat for the first time as European’s to this country. My Mexican tribe was always on this land we call America. This ancestry tree has cost me a lot and a lot of time, but I love it. Your words are hurtful and my hillbilly family would be upset with you talking about there kin like that. You are in Texas which is 55% Mexicans and blacks now. Because I look so white I do not have a problem in West Virginia, but my Mexican son would and my mom. You talk about the Lord. I know you could care less, but try to see it from a Mexican and white person’s point of view. It is my Pentecostal white side that shock me. I will go to West Virginia this summer to find we’re would visit every summer until the 80’s. I have a painting that was given to me after my grandfather passed away, of his moms house with no bathroom in the Bluefield holler. Did not me to be disrespectful, but I witness the difference in colors. People who are white have said stuff to me about Mexicans not knowing I am very proud of both my heritage’s and then I open mouth and tell them.
Hard to imagine that the home once have little kids running around playing, mama cooking inside, and dad working on the car. These were places that people lived their lives just like we do today.
At14 mins you walked into a building, there was a black garbage bag on the floor. You could see a hole in the bag when you entered but as you got closer it closed.
I have done this, gone into abandoned homes. Sometimes you feel bad, but in the end, if you save a piece of their lives...... nothing wrong with it! One time... I got 2 GORGEOUS bibles... They would have been destroyed.. I gave to coworker and she was THRILLED!
I'd love to live in West Virgina, I think it's the most beautiful place to call home. Looks like petrified wood to me. Maybe they used a gas light on the locomotive...they came along before the electricity.
West Virginia is a beautiful state with lots of creeks, rivers, and lakes. Lots of great rock formations. Beautiful mountain views. Great scenery and always interesting places to visit.
You should do more videos like this. You speak your mind I think as I would if I were to be out exploring abandon places and roaming about in nature. I don't think there's anything you could do to improve upon this very down-to-earth video endeavor. It's really that good and has been a lot of fun to watch. Much thanks.
Lol! Dirty magazines!! That was some kid hide out to wack his pub! Lol! Probably the kid that road the dirt bike. Cant imagine anyone else. The house is in no mans land
Excellent exploration. Love the content. We spent 2weeks this past summer in Southern WV. We saw much of this type buildings abandoned. It was unbelievable to see.
Man, the hill you were about to go up as you passed thru the tunnel, I know where that is and it's csx railroad property. They're pretty strict about trespassing in this area (where that was). From when I was younger and you could go up there, you're right by the railroad tracks and the tunnel is really neat looking up there. Be careful about trespassing when in WV.
Be very careful up there going on other people's property,it might look abandoned but someone owns it and you could get shot or get your ass kicked for that. 💯
Wonder why they had to abandon & movie out !? He said for economic reasons!? Something the government made up or polluted the water & the air.... but usually they don’t give 2 f-ks to warn people of the dangers.... if they would warn ppl of any danger, it’s probably because they want there land.... or afraid family members would get a big law suit if family members would just start passing away for no reason, or they’d get cancer . Like everyone on the creek would get the same illness.... & that’s happened a lot around WEST VIRGINIA.....
@@poppaluke9991 Yes, lots of crazy people back in these mountains. I have known many shootings to go down over "someone being on my property" and that is no joke. Of course, most locals know where to go and where to avoid, but yeah, in this day and time with guns everywhere, especially here in Southern WV...be careful my friend. Most in WV will recite the "Castle Law" as they call it and most truly don't undersand it and will fire away thinking they are 100 percent legal to shoot.
The 701 was built in May of 1911 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) at their Richmond plant. The locomotive was built for the Hocking Valley Railway in Ohio. It was acquired by the Chesapeake and Ohio in 1930 when the Hocking Valley was merged into the C&O. The locomotive is a Class G5 Consolidation-type engine with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement. The C&O used the 701 to pull trains along the Hot Springs Branch, transporting passengers to and from The Homestead Resort. Locals nicknamed her the Merry Widow “because she seemed to be happily steaming along, alone, up the Hot Springs Branch.” She was also known as “Tojo” for being used to transport Japanese prisoners-of-war to Hot Springs. The engine was retired in early 1954 as the C&O replaced its steam engines with diesel-electrics. The locomotive was subsequently donated by the railroad to the city of Covington and in November 1954 to its current resting place at Main Street Park.
ALCO also made a lot of diesel locomotives and marine diesel engines for tow boats. That thing that looks like a wire near the head light is a wire for an electric head light. The locomotive was equipped with a generator and air brakes. This is from the internet: In 1897, a dramatically improved headlight appeared featuring a powerful beam powered by electricity. This light was so superior that Congress passed a law in 1915 requiring all locomotives to be equipped with electric headlights.
I was 10 when we moved from WVa. When we go back to visit I love to see the history. It's so old there. One of my claims-to-fame as a boy was an abandoned moonshine still site that we wandered upon in a place the locals called Turkey Hollow. It was neat as a child.
The iron thing laying on the ground at the burned out house was a old coal stove. There was still coal laying around it. Some people still use those today. Put a chunk of coal inside and it will keep you warm all night.
If you love rocks you should travel up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Lake Superior and walk the shoreline from Munising to White Fish point. They have so many different rocks of all colors and even rocks made from the lightening hitting the beach. They have a certain rock that you need to use a black light at night to find..it sparkles and is very round oblong shape.
Grew up in WV left for 20 years went back and was appalled at what that state has become. Left after 4 years will never go back. Drugs and despair are rampant
I'm from the Appalachian mountain) thanks for the awesome video sure brought back some not that long ago memories but you are so lucky to not have ran across a rattler or copperhead lol
Our family vacationed this past summer in the southern part of WV. Spent 2 weeks at a mountain top cabin Air BNB near Snowshoe. Absolutely beautiful country. We explored some of the Monongahela National Forest. 2 weeks wasn't enough time.
I’m coming from Oregon to see your area in two weeks. I’ve never been across the nation and I want to envelop myself in the natural areas that were once the Walmart of Native American people. I’m starting in Columbus, renting a car, and heading down into Kentucky and West Virginia. No time limit, just going to follow my nose until I’m ready to come back home.
I was just waiting for one of those hillbilly freaks from the Wrong turn movie to come out of the woods...haha. I'm pretty sure that they filmed most of those movies in West Virginia. Cool stuff though, exploring unseen places can be a lot of fun.
I would love to do what you do. I love rocks too! Yeah, that's a piece of wood. If I had my d'ruthers I'd take any one of those properties and never leave. Wish you would go explore Kentucky. That's one beautiful state too.
If you like to go to an old places like houses, castles or what's left of them, go to Europe. Especially Eastern Europe. Plases like Hungary (Transylvania), Ukraine, unfortunately for now only Western Ukraine, Carpathian mountains. Poland, and so on. When I was a kid, back in the '70th, we, my friends and I used to find the most interesting places. Caves, antient burial mounts, etcetera. And yeah, Western Ukraine is not nearly as dangerous as most people in the US think. It's also surprisingly affordable and amazingly beautiful. Even towns, cities like Lviv, Kiev, etc. I've left when it was under soviet (mokshas) occupation and only went back in the winter of '22. I have forgotten how beautiful it is
Great video Naptown! Appreciate the content. Ya know, it's quite sad that some of fthat gorgeous water is so full of acidic waste from the coal mining operations that it is far from potable. I grew up in southern WV, moved away, came back around 2000, the mountain areas where there are no people around are great, however, much of southern WV has been destroyed by drugs. Perdue Pharma and Oxycontin literally changed my hometown forever. Watch a documentary called Oxyana about a small town in southern WV called Oceana as it is a decent depiction of what happened in the late 90's as opiates were just flooded into our market...strange, we were usually the LAST to get anything, HOWEVER, we were the first to have an oxycontin boom! It makes you wonder... Anyway, be careful Naptown...good thing to ask around before you take off into the woods. Sadly, most of the land is owned by coal companies or land companies and they have literally ravaged much of it. Cancer rates are through the roof, the water is horrible and while the place still has so much beauty, so much has been destroyed. I can only imagine the beauty before Europeans found the place. Can you imagine how wonderful it must have looked when it was just a few Native Americans here and there and they used only what they needed,. We are trying to get the Hatfield McCoy ATV Trail system to provide a nice way for people to see the woods and scenery and also provide a nice source of revenue for southern WV as coal will eventually be gone no matter what anyone thinks or hopes and we must look to the future. Have a great day everyone!
Can you do a video on repairing the valve cover seal? I am learning that there isn’t a gasket on the 2.0TFSI, just some “green goop” Audi throws on? There is oil coming out of the valve cover bolt front right closest to timing chain cover. I’m assuming the seal is giving way? Any info would be awesome!!
The precursor to modern-day cement was created in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin, a British bricklayer and builder, who experimented with heating limestone and clay until the mixture calcined, grinding it and then mixing it with water.
I have lived in WV for over a decade. I am still amazed by the beauty. Truly breath taking. WV is one of America's best kept secrets.
We are moving to Morgantown next month.We can’t wait
Try "exploring" on the Harlan side of that ridge...ROFL
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West virginia sucks
I've lived in WV all my life and I can tell you for a fact 90% of WV is 4 to 6 ft of dirt covering solid rock, I'm 60 yrs old and when I was a teen all us boys dug graves for every family within 25 miles and there were very few we didn't have to use TNT in the last couple ft.
@Donald Donald just about any where as long as you've got good light in a rural area, but they grow apples and wine grapes in the NE of the state and Clay county is where the yellow delicious was first found, I live in Kanawha county on 22 acres and when I was a kid there was 52 apple trees, 20 peach trees, and there were pair trees, walnut, hazalnut and chestnut, trees, and we picked 5 gal buckets of blackberries and raspberries, and had plenty of strawberries from moms patch, but sad to say it's all grown up and most of it has died from neglect
Looking at land there and that's very good to know thanks
I’m from Vermont and my uncles and I come down most years in April to canoe on the South branch of the Potomac. When I’m in Your state, I feel like I’m in Northern Vermont. It looks very similar. The people are friendly and cool. Lots of city people have moved up here. They have changed everything. The kids are going to graduate High school in a few years. I’m thinking about moving near Romney/Springfield area of your state. I promise you and the people of WV, I will not do what was done to my community. Hopefully WV can remain true for generations to come.
@@greenmountainhellhound6835 thank's I'm proud to be from WV and I've found that in most other states people from WV are well liked because we are just down home people and I hope ypu can join us your more than welcome here
1957 Pontiac. I had a 2 door one back in 1966. It was a beast.
first time seeing one, thank for identifying
Keep making more of these.
At 16:29 remains are probably an old root cellar for storing food in winter. Worked in N. Central Wv as rural surveyor for 35 years. This video looks like my office.
I'm from W.V. originally and I really appreciate your videos. I grew up in Montgomery, W.V. and when I was a kid it was a pretty nice town that had everything your needed, except a movie theater. We had a large city pool, department stores, nice local mom and pop restaurants and shops. When the mine jobs started disappearing and we lost W.V. Tech the town really started to vanish. It's just so sad to see a once prosperous area turn to a ghost town.
WVU Tech moved from Montgomery a few years ago and that town is now struggling
Both of my parents went to WV Tech in the '50s. They worked at the A&P while going to school. We moved from Boomer in 1960. We went to Montgomery in the summer to visit our grandparents. Loved the pool, Murphy's 5 & 10¢ store. The park across the river in Smithers. Wonderful memories.
Was just up that way earlier today. They had a cave in across the river from Montgomery Hospital. It looks so desolate compared from the times you were talking about. I’m not from there (I’m from the Seth area) but we traveled all up in there when I was growing up. We had family in Smithers and Montgomery. and my Grandparents are buried at London Cemetery. We always made stops all through there to eat and that area always had really good mom and pop diners. All those places are gone now. Really sad. When I was a teenager it was a “happenin” place. LoL because of Tech. It’s sad to see things so drastically. I bet it was nice living there back in the day.
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I was graduated from Montgomery high school in 1964 and at that time, we did have a movie theater. It cost 25 cents to see a movie. I now live in Nebraska but miss those WV hills very much. May God bless us all
Cars that old don’t have catalytic converters
Seeing those old abandoned homestead’s is so sad. I think of the hardworking families living in them, leaving because of the economy. In Virginia around Skyline Drive, the houses are mostly gone, but cemetaries remain. I wonder if any of those homes could be rehabbed?
It causes the mind to wonder about those gone before, the stories of their lives, their troubles and trials ... what made them laugh or cry.... Life was hard no doubt, but good in ways, to be sure. Writers and poets could have a field-day exploring such places. Interesting video...greatly appreciated. Thanks.
They were addicted to porn😂
@@robertgrant5372 he should have read the date 📅 🙄 😒
Just think in 50 year's people will be looking at our places and our graves, life is short bro
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Indeed, we're just passing thru; all the more reason to be good and do good.
Monroe County west Virginia,is probably the most beautiful County and place on God Green earth.the people there are really blessed to be able to live and be there,you know that the whole big beautiful County has not one red or signal light in it.to me that pretty cool now,it's so beautiful and so clean to go there and be there that I'd love to have me a really nice farm there and and that way I'd really know that I was in heaven.so Monroe County people you are most luckiest people on God's green earth to have just one inch of heaven of Monroe County beautiful land now 💯🇺🇸👏👌👍🤞🌻❤😁‼️
I love to visit Monroe County,,,so beautiful! Haven't been in a few years. I live in Logan County.
Nope, McDowell here. It is beautiful there.
My home is Bluefield, Mercer County, WV and raised in Covington, Alleghany County, VA. Monroe County is between the two. I believe all three are God's countries, the most beautiful mountain area you'd ever wish to see!!
SO BEAUTIFUL, OH HOW I MISS MY WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS.. HOME.. I'VE MOVED TO SOUTH TEXAS, BY THE BORDER OF MEXICO, AND IT IS MISERABLE HERE FOR ME... THE LANGUAGE BARRIER, POVERTY, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONSTANTLY, WITH BORDER PATROL AND HELICOPTERS CIRCLING CONSTANTLY.. WHAT A MISTAKE I'VE MADE, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF WORK... NO PEACE, OR PIECE OF MIND.. LORD HELP ME GET BACK, I DON'T WANT TO DIE HERE, I WOULD RATHER HAVE MY MOUNTAINS ..
Move back. I'd rather work at McDonald's and live in the mountains then live where your at and make 75/80 K a year. Lived in Houston for 3 yrs, back in the early 80's. Living on disability in Wv. And it's a satisfying way of life.
Oh boy, b4 you get too much of a senior citizen, please move back to WV. I know you would be happier there reminiscing and enjoying your childhood area.
Being called a Mexican Hillbilly all my 49years of life, didn’t bother me at all until the last few years. My dad’s family is from West Virginia and both his parents were born there. I loved to visit every summer and walking through the holler to go get me pop and candy at the General store. My mom’s dad is from Laredo Texas and her mom is from Detroit Michigan. So my grandparents never taught his 7 kids the Mexican language. Bad mistake, the grandkids could have really used that Mexican language. Especially for the Officers in my family and my son. I love both of my cultures and was raised the south Pentecostal way and my Mexican way. I have really been doing my ancestry tree of my Moore side and went back as far as my 5th great grandfather, and it shows on my DNA matches that the Moore side came from Scotland and Europe over on a boat for the first time as European’s to this country. My Mexican tribe was always on this land we call America. This ancestry tree has cost me a lot and a lot of time, but I love it. Your words are hurtful and my hillbilly family would be upset with you talking about there kin like that. You are in Texas which is 55% Mexicans and blacks now. Because I look so white I do not have a problem in West Virginia, but my Mexican son would and my mom. You talk about the Lord. I know you could care less, but try to see it from a Mexican and white person’s point of view. It is my Pentecostal white side that shock me. I will go to West Virginia this summer to find we’re would visit every summer until the 80’s. I have a painting that was given to me after my grandfather passed away, of his moms house with no bathroom in the Bluefield holler. Did not me to be disrespectful, but I witness the difference in colors. People who are white have said stuff to me about Mexicans not knowing I am very proud of both my heritage’s and then I open mouth and tell them.
Hard to imagine that the home once have little kids running around playing, mama cooking inside, and dad working on the car. These were places that people lived their lives just like we do today.
At14 mins you walked into a building, there was a black garbage bag on the floor. You could see a hole in the bag when you entered but as you got closer it closed.
I live in West Virginia it is by far the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.
Wow....very nice I love old farm houses
Outstanding video! Thanks so much for posting!
Love your sense of wonder and deep appreciation of nature and excellent craftsmanship. Thanks for the tour!
I have done this, gone into abandoned homes. Sometimes you feel bad, but in the end, if you save a piece of their lives...... nothing wrong with it! One time... I got 2 GORGEOUS bibles... They would have been destroyed.. I gave to coworker and she was THRILLED!
Very beautiful, love it.
WOW!! First time I have seen your video. Gray sky here in Michigan today and turning cold. This just what I needed. ❤
Enjoyed the tour. Liked the car video. The scenery. The tour thru the house was fun.visited Clarksburg, yrs. ago.
New subscriber....love the tours.
I can smell it as you walk through it. What an awesome
find!
I'd love to live in West Virgina, I think it's the most beautiful place to call home. Looks like petrified wood to me. Maybe they used a gas light on the locomotive...they came along before the electricity.
If you like nature hikes and you own that truck in your profile pic, you'll fit right in here
We’d love to have ya!
Thank you for making this video. I fall deeper in love with West Virginia everytime i see more of its beauty.
it's false beauty
Nice Video! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing. Watching from Las Vegas, NV.
West Virginia is a beautiful state with lots of creeks, rivers, and lakes. Lots of great rock formations. Beautiful mountain views. Great scenery and always interesting places to visit.
You should do more videos like this. You speak your mind I think as I would if I were to be out exploring abandon places and roaming about in nature. I don't think there's anything you could do to improve upon this very down-to-earth video endeavor. It's really that good and has been a lot of fun to watch. Much thanks.
i havent seen this landscape since i was a kid.pretty cool stuff
Lol! Dirty magazines!! That was some kid hide out to wack his pub! Lol! Probably the kid that road the dirt bike. Cant imagine anyone else. The house is in no mans land
Excellent exploration. Love the content. We spent 2weeks this past summer in Southern WV. We saw much of this type buildings abandoned. It was unbelievable to see.
.. "I choose the gravel road, cause *BELCH!*...That's how I roll.." Bravo 👍🏿💯
Video is my souvenir 👍
nice content NaptownTuner. I shattered that thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the solid work.
Leave nothing but footprints and take NOTHING except memories
Adventure + ASMR. Awesome video N.T.
Very beautiful.
Looks like you stumbled across someone's jack shack.
Man i love the taken your videos 👍
Man, the hill you were about to go up as you passed thru the tunnel, I know where that is and it's csx railroad property. They're pretty strict about trespassing in this area (where that was). From when I was younger and you could go up there, you're right by the railroad tracks and the tunnel is really neat looking up there. Be careful about trespassing when in WV.
Looked like he did a lot of trespassing. I'm surprised that nobody ran him off with a gun.
Be very careful up there going on other people's property,it might look abandoned but someone owns it and you could get shot or get your ass kicked for that. 💯
used to get there as a kid!
Wonder why they had to abandon & movie out !? He said for economic reasons!? Something the government made up or polluted the water & the air.... but usually they don’t give 2 f-ks to warn people of the dangers.... if they would warn ppl of any danger, it’s probably because they want there land.... or afraid family members would get a big law suit if family members would just start passing away for no reason, or they’d get cancer . Like everyone on the creek would get the same illness.... & that’s happened a lot around WEST VIRGINIA.....
@@poppaluke9991 Yes, lots of crazy people back in these mountains. I have known many shootings to go down over "someone being on my property" and that is no joke. Of course, most locals know where to go and where to avoid, but yeah, in this day and time with guns everywhere, especially here in Southern WV...be careful my friend. Most in WV will recite the "Castle Law" as they call it and most truly don't undersand it and will fire away thinking they are 100 percent legal to shoot.
I love it here
that front bumper OMG so cool!
I spent my childhood running in the woods of WV. Now that I'm 64 I only walk through them now. Mountain top rock formations to explore. Good fun.
I have never been to WV - thank you for the great video and now WV is on my bucket list (the waterfalls had me from the start lol).
You should see it in the summer!!
New subscriber, very interesting thank you.
Wrong Turn come to mind. Beautiful WV!
The 701 was built in May of 1911 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) at their Richmond plant. The locomotive was built for the Hocking Valley Railway in Ohio. It was acquired by the Chesapeake and Ohio in 1930 when the Hocking Valley was merged into the C&O.
The locomotive is a Class G5 Consolidation-type engine with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement. The C&O used the 701 to pull trains along the Hot Springs Branch, transporting passengers to and from The Homestead Resort.
Locals nicknamed her the Merry Widow “because she seemed to be happily steaming along, alone, up the Hot Springs Branch.” She was also known as “Tojo” for being used to transport Japanese prisoners-of-war to Hot Springs.
The engine was retired in early 1954 as the C&O replaced its steam engines with diesel-electrics. The locomotive was subsequently donated by the railroad to the city of Covington and in November 1954 to its current resting place at Main Street Park.
Thanks for the research!
ALCO also made a lot of diesel locomotives and marine diesel engines for tow boats. That thing that looks like a wire near the head light is a wire for an electric head light. The locomotive was equipped with a generator and air brakes.
This is from the internet: In 1897, a dramatically improved headlight appeared featuring a powerful beam powered by electricity. This light was so superior that Congress passed a law in 1915 requiring all locomotives to be equipped with electric headlights.
I was 10 when we moved from WVa. When we go back to visit I love to see the history. It's so old there. One of my claims-to-fame as a boy was an abandoned moonshine still site that we wandered upon in a place the locals called Turkey Hollow. It was neat as a child.
The iron thing laying on the ground at the burned out house was a old coal stove. There was still coal laying around it. Some people still use those today. Put a chunk of coal inside and it will keep you warm all night.
What a beautiful spot, even a nice water supply
They are beautiful
There was no Cadillac converter on that year, lucky if you find a muffler!
I love the way you explore. You get it.
If you love rocks you should travel up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Lake Superior and walk the shoreline from Munising to White Fish point. They have so many different rocks of all colors and even rocks made from the lightening hitting the beach. They have a certain rock that you need to use a black light at night to find..it sparkles and is very round oblong shape.
I think WV is our most beautiful state and I mean the people too. By the way, the first wagon is a 1957 Pontiac and the second is a 1963 Chevy.
Grew up in WV left for 20 years went back and was appalled at what that state has become. Left after 4 years will never go back. Drugs and despair are rampant
Yes, people here now vote for those who keep making it harder on them. Very sad really.
I'am your newest subscriber great videos
That used to be a water fall!!! Absolutely beautiful
Please stop rearranging things. Nature has it exactly like it should be. This is why places don't allow people to explore
I'm from the Appalachian mountain) thanks for the awesome video sure brought back some not that long ago memories but you are so lucky to not have ran across a rattler or copperhead lol
Still flipping through those hustler mags after three discoveries.
I really liked your explore. WV is so beautiful. I'm from the Eastern Panhandle. I've been to southern WV, the mountains are the greatest. ♥️
Our family vacationed this past summer in the southern part of WV. Spent 2 weeks at a mountain top cabin Air BNB near Snowshoe. Absolutely beautiful country. We explored some of the Monongahela National Forest. 2 weeks wasn't enough time.
I'm travelling to the panhandle from Ohio this coming weekend. Where do you suggest to go to get the rural WV holler feel?
I’m coming from Oregon to see your area in two weeks. I’ve never been across the nation and I want to envelop myself in the natural areas that were once the Walmart of Native American people. I’m starting in Columbus, renting a car, and heading down into Kentucky and West Virginia. No time limit, just going to follow my nose until I’m ready to come back home.
tranquil and calm
That’s a cellar makes you wonder who owns the property’s you see that wood cook stove was cool
What area in wv is this?
Look like wrong turn movie
If you have an ATV, you can find places like this deep in the woods and miles from any roads
I was just waiting for one of those hillbilly freaks from the Wrong turn movie to come out of the woods...haha. I'm pretty sure that they filmed most of those movies in West Virginia. Cool stuff though, exploring unseen places can be a lot of fun.
You're more likely to run into meth and heroin zombies in the cities. The back country is quite peaceful
Actually they were filmed in Canada.
I would love to do what you do. I love rocks too! Yeah, that's a piece of wood. If I had my d'ruthers I'd take any one of those properties and never leave. Wish you would go explore Kentucky. That's one beautiful state too.
We used to play on that train as a kid...before the nice setup it has now.
I grew up in country out side of Charleston wv I know live in ohio but westvirgina will always be my home
I grew up in poca wv in 1960s watch for copper heads big mike
That little house at 14:00 ..not much work and I'd move right in..I'd even temp plastic over the windows til I got her fixed up🥰
5:20 trippy paint... beautiful
If you like to go to an old places like houses, castles or what's left of them, go to Europe. Especially Eastern Europe. Plases like Hungary (Transylvania), Ukraine, unfortunately for now only Western Ukraine, Carpathian mountains. Poland, and so on.
When I was a kid, back in the '70th, we, my friends and I used to find the most interesting places. Caves, antient burial mounts, etcetera.
And yeah, Western Ukraine is not nearly as dangerous as most people in the US think. It's also surprisingly affordable and amazingly beautiful.
Even towns, cities like Lviv, Kiev, etc.
I've left when it was under soviet (mokshas) occupation and only went back in the winter of '22.
I have forgotten how beautiful it is
The block building with no roof was probably a well house or cellar I've seen a few of them ... WV
Great video Naptown! Appreciate the content. Ya know, it's quite sad that some of fthat gorgeous water is so full of acidic waste from the coal mining operations that it is far from potable. I grew up in southern WV, moved away, came back around 2000, the mountain areas where there are no people around are great, however, much of southern WV has been destroyed by drugs. Perdue Pharma and Oxycontin literally changed my hometown forever.
Watch a documentary called Oxyana about a small town in southern WV called Oceana as it is a decent depiction of what happened in the late 90's as opiates were just flooded into our market...strange, we were usually the LAST to get anything, HOWEVER, we were the first to have an oxycontin boom! It makes you wonder...
Anyway, be careful Naptown...good thing to ask around before you take off into the woods. Sadly, most of the land is owned by coal companies or land companies and they have literally ravaged much of it.
Cancer rates are through the roof, the water is horrible and while the place still has so much beauty, so much has been destroyed. I can only imagine the beauty before Europeans found the place. Can you imagine how wonderful it must have looked when it was just a few Native Americans here and there and they used only what they needed,.
We are trying to get the Hatfield McCoy ATV Trail system to provide a nice way for people to see the woods and scenery and also provide a nice source of revenue for southern WV as coal will eventually be gone no matter what anyone thinks or hopes and we must look to the future. Have a great day everyone!
Maybe get off the methadone? Or at minimum don't be so excited about it 4Life.. 😂
I ❤️ Appalachia!
Oh man I would love to get my hands on that stove and restore it
Can you do a video on repairing the valve cover seal? I am learning that there isn’t a gasket on the 2.0TFSI, just some “green goop” Audi throws on? There is oil coming out of the valve cover bolt front right closest to timing chain cover. I’m assuming the seal is giving way? Any info would be awesome!!
Man I been wanting one of them old fridges forever
What catalytic converters?
cool
What county was this?
Go to Babcock I said.
You ain't that far from there.
Do a 3.2 teardown.
Keep up the good work.
The bricks in the side of the mountian by the creek is a canhouse. Its where we store all the canned foods and root vegetables
My real name is Michael McCluskey. It saddens me to see abandoned things left to nature to let them rot. .
Dude, cool car but watch for snakes. 🙏
Greetings from Greenbrier County.
I would love to walk that creek with u. .
google wisconsin dells, if you like rocks, a lot of deltss from glaciers is quite neat.
I love to find some old horse drawn equipment in the woods
That would be cool,if you could restore it.I would love to drive this baby around.
The precursor to modern-day cement was created in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin, a British bricklayer and builder, who experimented with heating limestone and clay until the mixture calcined, grinding it and then mixing it with water.
The old stone under ground cellar to keep canned slash jarred food good longer.
Looks like where I grew up in New Hampshire, lol. Appalachia.
You don't have a knife on you?
Inexcusable.
I used to walk around the woods here in Ohio and would love running into these old cars sitting out in the middle of the woods.
You’re my Audi savior
That's a stillhouse. Yes where they made the absolute best moonshine you could get.