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Hi, my name's phillip and i'm from lancaster county pa. just joined the site cause i have a large coliection of photos of abandened places. Most are pics of old railroad, grades bridges and railroad related buildings although i do have several coal mining complexes and a slate mine (althuogh there is not much left of that)i'm not a big fan of trespassing or entering abandoned buildings, but after seeing some of the pics in the site i'm amazed at the stuff within the structures that would otherwise never been seen and agree it was worth the risk. If anyone wants i will upload some of my pics on here so everyone can see, just let me know. if there anything else you want to know buot me just ask.
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 01:47 PM
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"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
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The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
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- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 02:17 PM
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Welcome!
And please do post your pics.
And please do post your pics.
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Welcome!
Post your pics and locations! Enjoy your stay
Post your pics and locations! Enjoy your stay
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 06:30 PM
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alright here are some pics i took of the Bewind-White Coal Company mine #42 complex in scalp level pa. from what i've read this place is soposed to be the most intact mining complex in pa although it's really starting to show it's age and severel buildings are under self demolition from simple neglet. this place is absolutly amazing! if you ever find yourself near johnstown (scalp level is about 5 miles from there)this is a must stop the township even built an overlook on the side of the mountian for veiwing the mine but never did a thing to the complex. it is so overgrown that it can barely beseen from the overlook even in non-leaf season :-( but the place is not even so much as fence off you can literly pull off the road and walk in all the mine railway track is there complete with alot of mine cars of several different types and around 15 mine motors (locomotives) of different sizes. o.k. now i will post some pics.
"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 06:41 PM
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pic 1: looking at one of the 3 yards for the mine railway the building to the far right i believe was the maitnece shed for doing repairs on the mine railway rolling stock and motive power. it has a track running into it. the roof has completely collaspe into the structue.
pic 2:the shower area of the bath house.
pic 3: the office.
pic 2:the shower area of the bath house.
pic 3: the office.
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"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 07:12 PM
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pic 1. the interier of the office from the looks of it someone trashed the place and stole all the wiring out of it. the door on the right is the safe, writing above the door reads "The Berwind-White Coal Mining Company".
pic 2.the rotory dumper, this was used to get the coal out of the mine cars so it could be processed and loaded into railroad cars. the carswould bebacked in and then turned upside down to unload the car.
pic 3. there was also this track located to the left of pic 2 and located in the same building, this is where they cuold unload the mine cars in the tradidional manner by using side-dump or bottom-dump mine cars.
pic 2.the rotory dumper, this was used to get the coal out of the mine cars so it could be processed and loaded into railroad cars. the carswould bebacked in and then turned upside down to unload the car.
pic 3. there was also this track located to the left of pic 2 and located in the same building, this is where they cuold unload the mine cars in the tradidional manner by using side-dump or bottom-dump mine cars.
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"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 07:43 PM
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Are these PA pics? If so, I can move them to the PA forum.
Now you can tear a building down, but you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down, but they have a value you can't see
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 08:02 PM
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pic 1. the conveyor belt housing that took the coal into the processing building after it was unloaded from the mine cars.
pic 2. a close up of the writeing above the safe in the office.
pic 3. looking at the mine complex from the overlook.
pic 2. a close up of the writeing above the safe in the office.
pic 3. looking at the mine complex from the overlook.
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"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 08:03 PM
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Chaindrive, on 06 January 2011 - 07:43 PM, said:
Are these PA pics? If so, I can move them to the PA forum.
"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
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Posted 06 January 2011 - 10:27 PM
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i did have alot more pics of this mine but unforuntely i fear i may have lost them when my computer crash last year, i can't seem to find any pics from the mine #37 complex ethier but i'll keep looking thruogh my pics hopefully i'll find them :-(. as of now i'm going to put up pics of a few other places i got in the pa forum.
"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
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phillip i have some pics of the mine #37 if you want me to i will up load them later today or put them in your folder on my ftp for you and send the login info to you again. that was a great trip i took with you to mine #40 but i lost most of my pics of that too.
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welcome phillip, must not have seen this post
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Urban_Explorer, on 18 August 2011 - 06:09 PM, said:
welcome phillip, must not have seen this post
although your 8 months late. 
"when in doubt, do it. it's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
- Admiral Grace murry hopper
The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electical problem.
you only need two tools in life, duct tape and WD40. If it dosen't move and it should, use WD40. if it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.
someone has to set a bad exsample. :)
pissing people off, one person at a time. :P
there's a fine line between 'fearless' & 'stupidity'.
fld200, on 25 September 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:
*sigh* I show no remorse for complete stupidity...
firefighter. lancoland sta. 50 (formely sta. 5-12)
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i'm michael Himmelstein KB3NZQ i know phillip s because i went to collage with him and we went to mine 42 together. and also did a lot of rail fanning in the johnstown area and also some in the lancaster area too
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Hi and welcome.
Now you can tear a building down, but you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down, but they have a value you can't see
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