Best Video On Beehive Coke Ovens 7 mins of heaven Virtual Museum! Shoaf Uniontown Pennsylvania
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Check out this link of a 1970 Film of this exact location to see how coke was manufactured! www.lifeinweste... Today Enjoy a tour of the last great coke oven operations located in Shoaf Pennsylvania, south of Uniontown. This 200 oven operation closed for good in 1972 due to not meeting EPA standards. So ended a 100 year history of coke manufacturing in Southwestern PA. This operation could be a wonderful walking tour if not for the fact that what is under it is too valuable for the owners to turn over to tourism (a coal seam) Too Bad. Enjoy the best examples of complete coke ovens, with rails still in place for "larry cars" to load the coal through a trunnel hole in the top, rails running along the front of the ovens to allow the "mud car" to assist the mudders who would block up the opening for a 36 or 72 hour coke charge, the Railroad "Wharf" still intact between two banks of ovens that allowed the workers to easily deposit the cooked coke and send north to Pittsburgh. To realize what workers did for so little (often a $1 a day or worse--paid in company store scrip), a dirty, life shortening existance, which supported their families, is quite a humbling experience. Visit www.stuffthatsgone.com and the Coal and Coke Heritage Museum, located at Penn State University, Fayette Campus US 119 South, Uniontown, PA.
On the way home from Fairchance to Point Marion at night, I would watch those coke oven burn....what a site....to me it was comforting.
My Dad worked on Coke Ovens all over Fayette County Pa 30s 40s and early 50s
I use to pass these Coke Ovens on the Western Trolley on our ways to Uniontown, coming from Edenborn, about 7-10 miles away. Fond childhood memories. My Grandfather mined the Bituminous coal used for Coke, as he worked for the Frick Co. until he retired in 1951.
Running through 1972, really? Wow. I know the coke works in Alicia just outside of Brownsville ran into the late 60's and I thought that was one of the last beehive operations still firing. Great video! Gonna have to get out that way myself soon.
you never realized you lived in the center of the coke oven universe! I wish I could go at that site with a chain saw and make it a real historical showplace.
I believe they wasted a lot of coal with the process they used. 2:22 great idea that would be nice if they cleaned those up and made a tour. I'm a masons apprentice (i can sling mud pretty well) not sure when I have any extra time tho. I wish they would have done that in Connellsville
I have a setup like this by my house, not nearly as intact as this one but looks exactly the same.
Oh Wow! I'll definatly visit that whenever its done!!
Very informative.
I noticed that the ovens were set up to be basic operation with very little else including not even sheltered from the elements for the workers
Holy crap I went down there and we picked up spirits! The mofia used to "use" those coke ovens...
@blumpkinman94
You didn't know you lived in the center of the universe!!!
Liking your videos. Very informative my friend.
Looks like good deer hunting as well
Is this site open for anyone to look around or is it on private property with no trespassing? I would like to explore it to get some photos and measurements for modeling a coke works in O scale. Thanks for posting this! I enjoy all your videos!
They’ll chase u off. Sunday would be best day. You can buy scale model coke ovens on ebay
Hey there are more original unused bricks available where we located them, probably enough to build a second one if you are ever interested in making the connection...it will cost!!!
They just tore out the old Coke ovens around masontown wv
Did you have to repost these? I swear I saw these months ago but it shows they were recently posted.
I saw about that in Dunbar, but its going to cost a few thousand dollars.. there still are at 0 or were last Saturday
They have the money--that thermometer is for the next phase...we poured the footer so it's ready to roll!
I live in oliver 3
The inserted comments are great but really - You're only talking so leave comments up for 3 times as long as it takes you to read it. It's the first time for the rest of us.
i live like 1 mile from here