I love how you stop and take the time to admire the interesting finds. Like the labels, or the teddy bear. It's like I'm exploring with you and have time to ponder how things got to where they are. Great job.
An amazing documentary. I grew up in Allentown, and would have been 14 when passenger operations ceased. So this kind of hit home. Of course, your story would never appear on the History Channel or be presented by a museum. You're the real deal -- no restoration or sanitized interpretation as you examine the details. The contrast between the decayed glory that remains from the station's heydey and the present evidence of homeless occupation and drug activity is very compelling to me. Thanks for your work.
***** i use a cheap piece of crap dslr and the cheapest lens available for it. nothing fancy at all. cheap enough that if something happens to it i won't stress it. i guess it's just all in how you use it? i wish i had a canon 5d or a 4k video camera with image stabilization or something like that.
Great footage!! Always afraid to go in because of the homeless or criminal element. This "modern" station was built in 1930s to replace the beautiful "old fashioned" Victorian one that was located across the street. As you can see in some old pix, there was a 2nd story but that was torn down mid to late 70s. About half of this station was devoted to the "Railway Express Agency" where you picked up your parcels before the days of UPS and Fed Ex delivery to your door.
I was a bit of an urban explorer in my younger days, back in the 1970's. In those days the URBEX scene was a lot different than today. We didn't have the internet to share our finds and, we didn't work in groups as it was difficult to find like-minded people. Instead most of us, myself included, did all our exploring alone.If we got injured or got into a jam we had nobody to back us up and nobody to get help. Still we took our chances and did it because we found it interesting. I think its great that nowadays most of you guys work in groups. Makes it a lot safer. Also, these days you have video cameras plus the Internet to share your work. These days I leave the urban exploring to the younger folk. I am not as agile as I used to be when I was young,
HimJimRimDim. you're talking stupid that's a load of crap and you know it because you don't know what you're talking about you just make things as you go along and anyone could do that that's not a dummy
This is an interesting relic, with all the talk of putting a new passenger line through the Lehigh Valley and connecting to NJ Transit's line giving rail access to to the Northeast Corridor line from the Lehigh Valley it makes you wonder if this station could be resurrected.
My parents married in New York in 1957 and frequently took "the Valley" as they called it to visit my dad's family. They likely purchased their return passage at the very ticket booths you filmed. As a kid I often visited my grandparents and remember the LVRR freights passing thru, and the upper platform shelter still standing. Not much left from those times, except those old yellow clippings on the walls. Thanks for sharing your explorations.
Very frustrating that you used to be able to catch a train in Easton to NYC. The Lehigh Valley is the largest metropolitan area in the USA without light rail.
Thanks for filming this, I've lived in the Lehigh Valley all my life but never bothered to check out any of our many abandoned areas (for a good variety of reasons) and your exploration in tri-state area is really intriguing.
I love that no one in your crew says stupid comments while exploring. You're not loud and obnoxious and you capture the interesting things that I would be looking for if I was there. Thank you for posting your explorations!
It is interesting to see the reaction of today's youth to the past that many of us took for granted when their age. I'm sure future generations will find their primitive cameras and light sources odd..Keep exploring kids!
I enjoy your vids guys! I especially love the attention to detail of so many different things such as architectural details, news clippings and some of the grand details alike the staircase! I think one of my favorite things is my empathic gifts allow me to feel the excitement and genuine love of history and what you are doing! Please don't lose that dude!
Thanks for this video, I grew up on a farm on the Lehigh river near here that was south of Walnutport. That train went past my bedroom window about 500 feet away. We would pick up coal from the tracks for the cold winters. We moved to California in 1956. This brings me up to date on the local history.
Once again, good job guys! Hopefully someday someone will notice how respectful you are of the properties and allow you in to film even more less known and untouched historical gems.
Thanks to each of you . This is a great video and made me want to purchase so many of the items shown. This is truly a piece of history and wonderfully filmed. Thank you for taking us there. Well done. Jim , not Nigel
Also grew up in Allentown. Finding videos of people exploring abandoned places in the Lehigh Valley makes me smile. I wish I had the balls and willing friends to explore some of these places myself.
I find your channel very interesting because you show me abandon places near were I live... I was just at knoebles today and I was going to visit centralia but didn't have the chance anyway I like your videos... Keep on posting.
I agree the camera team did an excellent job. However, your additional story brought the adventure to another level and that was very cool! Thank you Mr. O'Hay.
This is way cool. I see people much younger than me doing explorations like this is fascinating.I just happen to live in part of an apartment complex that was once large factory. Ive seen pictures and video of the abandoned factory during some urban exploration tours. From what it was to what is is now is amazing. I love your documentary work. This stuff you do is top notch. Keep up the good work.
Recommendation - get Peztl lamps to free up your hands. Helmet mounted cameras? Boots, gloves, beware of discarded sharps (needles etc) and avoid standing water (risk of Leptospirosis)
My light is about 5x brighter than even the best Peztl headlamp actually. It's great. The problem for viewers is that my camera lens lacks low f-stop capabilities for actually capturing the full amount of light available. So really, I need a new lens, not a new light.
06:53(ish) looks like a weighbridge to me. Wow! Thanks for the video guys. I'm enjoying this all the way from the UK. I love how you find out & include bits of history about the place.
Those wrought iron railings & pillars that appeared @ the 17:00 mark were amazing. I would love to be able to rescue them from further deterioration, but i can guarantee it would never be an option die to red-tape & ownership retention of the property. Wonderful insight you guys have given to forgotten properties.
***** Hey I was wondering if you would be interested in grouping up for some really cool abandoned places my friend and I explore and have just stumbled upon. We want to use them for films mostly but It would be cool to have another Like minded/experienced individual to go out with. I live basically where you filmed the Railway Passenger Station
I work for a railroad and I have to say, the " old school" way of how the buildings were back then look so much better then the modern prefab way today. I have been fortunate to have seen some of the historic RR buildings of my area before they were demolished... Thanks for the uploads, Keep'em coming !! Too bad you didn't see any old train movement records....recoding actual arrival and departure times of trains......oh well :)
i love all the closeups you give on the documents and stuff you find...close up of a dead spider, or that old tire in the beginning, things like that. i always wish urb ex's would show me MORE of that type of thing. you really learn alot about the location and what not that way...love it. GReaT ViD! keep em comin, please!
Incredible old memories in that place - fascinating to see the old newspaper clippings on the walls - always sad to see places like this go to waste. It's too bad that they don't restore it for historic purposes. Thanks for sharing.
Great Vid, very impressed to see so much of the original stuff in such good shape, around my way places have been destroyed because no one cares to preserve anything.
Great video! I grew up in Wilson Borough, a few miles away. That station closed down before I was born, but I always wondered what it looked like inside. It's a shame that the station has deteriorated so bad. It would make a great train themed restaurant. Unfortunately, that is not the best part of town.
Great video! Loved the pop up information regarding the station. So sad that it's left like that. Too bad that some kind of historical society couldn't have stepped in and had it as a museum.
Liked and subscribed! :D Dude you NEED to bring me along on your next explorations. i have been in a station very similar to that many times. But your team seems to be oblivious to security, stealth, safety, and being mindful of their surroundings. You saw the pipe and personal effects, people obviously get high there. Was anyone trained or equipped to defend the group if the need arose? Was anyone ready to administer first aid should someone be injured? i love this kind of thing, because you walk through faded memories of rusted history when you explore places like this. And i am totally grateful to you and others like you that preserve these sites before they are reclaimed by time. But the times when several people walked onto decayed stairs or touched things that could be toxic, contaminated (or the instrument of a crime) made me wince.
Things I loved about this - the older images used in comparison, the information about the railroad, and the camera work Very cool, Kept me captivated for the entire 20 minutes. I really liked the eold newspaper aritcals about the line.
Thats nuts, i know this area well, I worked not but a few blocks from this station, Thanks for such an amazing video and all the awesome facts about the Lehigh Valley Railroad!
I grew up in the LV and did the same kind of stuff you are doing. Cool, keep it up. I live the historical aspect and the LV once a manufacturing mecca has remnants of its' past all over the place.
I love yours videos. You are an awesome urban explorer. I have to deal with them occasionally with my job. You don't seam to vandalize the buildings you enter or leave any trace of your presence at all. I had to deal with 3 young urban explorers trying to make off with a 10ton gantry crane in their pickup from one of my employer's warehouse a while back. it was build some time around 1840 and abandoned in the 1940's and recently I've been put in charge of fixing the building to be used as a shop
This is not far from where my hubby's cousin lives. Looks like it is time for a trip soon! I was surprised you all didn't find any other people in there with all those personal belongings sitting around. I also enjoyed the architecture, but I am sort of an architecture "nerd" :) Great job! I was eagerly awaiting a new video from you!
Thank You for uploading this video. I love videos about abandoned buildings and could sit and watch them all day long. Of course I'd end up with diabetes if i did that but, I can enjoy them while I have a little time.
Just found your site, loved the shots of all the abandoned places. Such a shame too. Imagine what they could do with a lot of these locations. Have you ever come across a place that had strange things happened? Sounds and movement that weren't made by you and your team. Haunted? Would love to hear stories on that as well.
I swear your videos are so cool! I've always loved watching shows and things based in the 1800 and 1900's and to see abandoned buildings and whole train stations is amazing! Just imagining that once this place was alive with a whole bunch of people that the majority of them are dead. I just find it fascinating and would love to visit places like these even if they're not the safest and it may be trespassing ^-^'
really cool to see those news clippings, and like you said, they all seem to be bad news. question that makes it even more creepy is that they are burned in place.
I go to a welding school in the area and a kid from new Jersey was making fun of kids from around here because of how excited we get about abandoned warehouses and stuff. He was like relax scooby doo, I'm 23 years old but I still think the history of this area is fascinating and who wouldn't want to check out places like this.
I love how you stop and take the time to admire the interesting finds. Like the labels, or the teddy bear. It's like I'm exploring with you and have time to ponder how things got to where they are. Great job.
An amazing documentary. I grew up in Allentown, and would have been 14 when passenger operations ceased. So this kind of hit home. Of course, your story would never appear on the History Channel or be presented by a museum. You're the real deal -- no restoration or sanitized interpretation as you examine the details. The contrast between the decayed glory that remains from the station's heydey and the present evidence of homeless occupation and drug activity is very compelling to me. Thanks for your work.
shenandoahvalleytv Thank you for watching and for the thoughtful comment!
+shenandoahvalleytv Awesome comment as well, from one valley dweller to another.
+Ari Nelson I need that camera
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i use a cheap piece of crap dslr and the cheapest lens available for it. nothing fancy at all. cheap enough that if something happens to it i won't stress it. i guess it's just all in how you use it? i wish i had a canon 5d or a 4k video camera with image stabilization or something like that.
Great footage!! Always afraid to go in because of the homeless or criminal element. This "modern" station was built in 1930s to replace the beautiful "old fashioned" Victorian one that was located across the street. As you can see in some old pix, there was a 2nd story but that was torn down mid to late 70s. About half of this station was devoted to the "Railway Express Agency" where you picked up your parcels before the days of UPS and Fed Ex delivery to your door.
I was a bit of an urban explorer in my younger days, back in the 1970's. In those days the URBEX scene was a lot different than today. We didn't have the internet to share our finds and, we didn't work in groups as it was difficult to find like-minded people. Instead most of us, myself included, did all our exploring alone.If we got injured or got into a jam we had nobody to back us up and nobody to get help. Still we took our chances and did it because we found it interesting. I think its great that nowadays most of you guys work in groups. Makes it a lot safer. Also, these days you have video cameras plus the Internet to share your work. These days I leave the urban exploring to the younger folk. I am not as agile as I used to be when I was young,
HimJimRimDim. you're talking stupid that's a load of crap and you know it because you don't know what you're talking about you just make things as you go along and anyone could do that that's not a dummy
This is an interesting relic, with all the talk of putting a new passenger line through the Lehigh Valley and connecting to NJ Transit's line giving rail access to to the Northeast Corridor line from the Lehigh Valley it makes you wonder if this station could be resurrected.
I love these tours of abandoned buildings. Keep 'em coming!
I grew up in that city in the 60s-80s and I've always wondered what the inside looked like. Thanks for the tour!
I really like the informative bar pop-ups and the close up shots of eclectic items ~ well done.
I have seen that place a hundred times as a kid and always wondered what it was all about.
There are some really amazing old ruins in the rust-belt. Thanks for sharing. I see you have an artist's appreciation for your subjects
You guys (and gals) truly do bring history back alive! Thank you for all you do.
My parents married in New York in 1957 and frequently took "the Valley" as they called it to visit my dad's family. They likely purchased their return passage at the very ticket booths you filmed. As a kid I often visited my grandparents and remember the LVRR freights passing thru, and the upper platform shelter still standing. Not much left from those times, except those old yellow clippings on the walls. Thanks for sharing your explorations.
Very frustrating that you used to be able to catch a train in Easton to NYC. The Lehigh Valley is the largest metropolitan area in the USA without light rail.
Amazing video! I remember sneaking in there as a kid after bike rides along the river. Thank You for the video and all of the historical references.
The architecture of the building is breathtaking. Nice work documenting this amazing piece of history!
I used to live right up the hill from this place. Fantastic of you to go searching through it!
Thanks for filming this, I've lived in the Lehigh Valley all my life but never bothered to check out any of our many abandoned areas (for a good variety of reasons) and your exploration in tri-state area is really intriguing.
I love that no one in your crew says stupid comments while exploring. You're not loud and obnoxious and you capture the interesting things that I would be looking for if I was there. Thank you for posting your explorations!
Great video coverage of a cool bit of history. Love the way that you capture the little details.
This is a great work of visual historical documentation.
The captions/story cards added context to the visual exploration.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Thanks for posting this!
It is interesting to see the reaction of today's youth to the past that many of us took for granted when their age. I'm sure future generations will find their primitive cameras and light sources odd..Keep exploring kids!
I enjoy your vids guys! I especially love the attention to detail of so many different things such as architectural details, news clippings and some of the grand details alike the staircase! I think one of my favorite things is my empathic gifts allow me to feel the excitement and genuine love of history and what you are doing! Please don't lose that dude!
Thanks for this video, I grew up on a farm on the Lehigh river near here that was south of Walnutport. That train went past my bedroom window about 500 feet away. We would pick up coal from the tracks for the cold winters. We moved to California in 1956. This brings me up to date on the local history.
Once again, good job guys!
Hopefully someday someone will notice how respectful you are of the properties and allow you in to film even more less known and untouched historical gems.
Your quality of filming and locations are excellent!
You always seem to find the finest details, that make it real, like being there yourself.
Love this stuff, thanks. :)
I love each video you've shot and can't get enough. Great stuff!
Thanks to each of you . This is a great video and made me want to purchase so many of the items shown. This is truly a piece of history and wonderfully filmed. Thank you for taking us there. Well done. Jim , not Nigel
Your videos are so interesting...love how you just "show the story" . Please keep up the great work.
There was so much beautiful symbolism in this video. You do great work!
Thank you so much for the tour. It was really cool. You guys are very brave. Love watching.
Your videos are the best "urbex" stuff around!
The Unknown Cameraman! Bringing us the best in scarcely seen awesomeness!!
Thank you for the dope camera work!
Sad with the homeless people living in these kind of places.. Lost souls.
Another great video! This one covers two of my intrests,trains and abandoned places.Thanks for the video!
Awesome job exploring! Love your vids. Keep up the great work!
Made my night :) Wish I could have explored this place while I was visiting NY! Awesome job.
Also grew up in Allentown. Finding videos of people exploring abandoned places in the Lehigh Valley makes me smile. I wish I had the balls and willing friends to explore some of these places myself.
I find your channel very interesting because you show me abandon places near were I live... I was just at knoebles today and I was going to visit centralia but didn't have the chance anyway I like your videos... Keep on posting.
I agree the camera team did an excellent job. However, your additional story brought the adventure to another level and that was very cool! Thank you Mr. O'Hay.
lots of history, thanks for showing!
This is way cool. I see people much younger than me doing explorations like this is fascinating.I just happen to live in part of an apartment complex that was once large factory. Ive seen pictures and video of the abandoned factory during some urban exploration tours. From what it was to what is is now is amazing. I love your documentary work. This stuff you do is top notch. Keep up the good work.
This was excellent! Great camera work and editing.
Love these videos, bro! I'm kind of a railroad fanatic so this really caught my eye when I saw it on the main page.
Recommendation - get Peztl lamps to free up your hands. Helmet mounted cameras? Boots, gloves, beware of discarded sharps (needles etc) and avoid standing water (risk of Leptospirosis)
absolutely! giving me the willies watching these people touch things with their bare hands. oh my....
My light is about 5x brighter than even the best Peztl headlamp actually. It's great. The problem for viewers is that my camera lens lacks low f-stop capabilities for actually capturing the full amount of light available. So really, I need a new lens, not a new light.
I love watching your videos I learn and explore at the same time thanks!:) keep them coming!!
Great video. I have been going through all of them since I came across your channel. They are very addicting.
Awesome find guys, thank you !
Great work! ...and nice touch with the History inserts.
06:53(ish) looks like a weighbridge to me.
Wow! Thanks for the video guys. I'm enjoying this all the way from the UK. I love how you find out & include bits of history about the place.
Those wrought iron railings & pillars that appeared @ the 17:00 mark were amazing. I would love to be able to rescue them from further deterioration, but i can guarantee it would never be an option die to red-tape & ownership retention of the property. Wonderful insight you guys have given to forgotten properties.
I've seen that place a few times and I've always wanted to explore it. Great video!
great attention to detail and facts, keep up the great work!
What a fabulous place this must have been in it's heyday. Great job to TheUnknownCamerman!
This is so much fun to watch, I love watching these videos of yours, it mind blowing and I learn history to. Keep up the out of the world work.
Thanks!
Your welcome! I would love to do one of these with you, like a haunted building or house.
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Hey I was wondering if you would be interested in grouping up for some really cool abandoned places my friend and I explore and have just stumbled upon. We want to use them for films mostly but It would be cool to have another Like minded/experienced individual to go out with. I live basically where you filmed the Railway Passenger Station
This was interesting and I'm glad you documented it before it fell into too much ruin. Thank you for sharing.
I love the picture of the 2 button light switch at 5:39. My grandparents used to have those kinds of switches in every room of their house.
I work for a railroad and I have to say, the " old school" way of how the buildings were back then look so much better then the modern prefab way today. I have been fortunate to have seen some of the historic RR buildings of my area before they were demolished... Thanks for the uploads, Keep'em coming !! Too bad you didn't see any old train movement records....recoding actual arrival and departure times of trains......oh well :)
Ive been watching your videos for awhile now, and get so scared by them, but find them so interesting! I dont know why I do this to myself. LOL
i love all the closeups you give on the documents and stuff you find...close up of a dead spider, or that old tire in the beginning, things like that. i always wish urb ex's would show me MORE of that type of thing. you really learn alot about the location and what not that way...love it. GReaT ViD! keep em comin, please!
Incredible old memories in that place - fascinating to see the old newspaper clippings on the walls - always sad to see places like this go to waste. It's too bad that they don't restore it for historic purposes. Thanks for sharing.
Great Vid, very impressed to see so much of the original stuff in such good shape, around my way places have been destroyed because no one cares to preserve anything.
we visit PA every spring (and then some) we need a friend like you when we visit!!!
Great video! I grew up in Wilson Borough, a few miles away. That station closed down before I was born, but I always wondered what it looked like inside. It's a shame that the station has deteriorated so bad. It would make a great train themed restaurant. Unfortunately, that is not the best part of town.
There's only one thing missing, a Pipboy 3000
Great video! Loved the pop up information regarding the station. So sad that it's left like that. Too bad that some kind of historical society couldn't have stepped in and had it as a museum.
Great video. What's hard to believe is why can't they refubish this great place.
So many buildings are left to time or to be destroyed.Thank you for this video.
I have literally been waiting for this video to come out!!!!
I like your style! Great attention to detail, and lots of it!
Awesome camera work you guys. It's fun to live vicariously too. Hope to get out there to check out the Old PA Turnpike some day. Keep it up.
thanks for posting
Really interesting video of some history hidden away. Thanks!
LOVE ALL YOUR VIDS.KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK
Liked and subscribed! :D
Dude you NEED to bring me along on your next explorations. i have been in a station very similar to that many times. But your team seems to be oblivious to security, stealth, safety, and being mindful of their surroundings.
You saw the pipe and personal effects, people obviously get high there. Was anyone trained or equipped to defend the group if the need arose? Was anyone ready to administer first aid should someone be injured?
i love this kind of thing, because you walk through faded memories of rusted history when you explore places like this. And i am totally grateful to you and others like you that preserve these sites before they are reclaimed by time. But the times when several people walked onto decayed stairs or touched things that could be toxic, contaminated (or the instrument of a crime) made me wince.
Things I loved about this - the older images used in comparison, the information about the railroad, and the camera work Very cool, Kept me captivated for the entire 20 minutes.
I really liked the eold newspaper aritcals about the line.
Thats nuts, i know this area well, I worked not but a few blocks from this station, Thanks for such an amazing video and all the awesome facts about the Lehigh Valley Railroad!
I love this stuff. I haven't visited an abandoned building in years.
Probably the coolest channel on youtube!
I grew up in the LV and did the same kind of stuff you are doing. Cool, keep it up. I live the historical aspect and the LV once a manufacturing mecca has remnants of its' past all over the place.
I love yours videos. You are an awesome urban explorer. I have to deal with them occasionally with my job. You don't seam to vandalize the buildings you enter or leave any trace of your presence at all. I had to deal with 3 young urban explorers trying to make off with a 10ton gantry crane in their pickup from one of my employer's warehouse a while back. it was build some time around 1840 and abandoned in the 1940's and recently I've been put in charge of fixing the building to be used as a shop
thank you made these kind of films i think im there right now
Agreed. I'm glad to see urbexers respecting the places they visit. Keep up the good work... you've got a new subscriber.
Love the 70's 60's newspaper clippings! Thats awesome how there's some historical sources left.
fan here....love watching you to . for a year now.. still doing good videos 'yay' hehe keep up good work :)
Like the videos, try taking a trip to England and video some of that stuff! haha keep em coming
Another great video my talented friend. Killer location....
This is not far from where my hubby's cousin lives. Looks like it is time for a trip soon! I was surprised you all didn't find any other people in there with all those personal belongings sitting around. I also enjoyed the architecture, but I am sort of an architecture "nerd" :) Great job! I was eagerly awaiting a new video from you!
excellent! thanks for making these vids :)
Thank You for uploading this video. I love videos about abandoned buildings and could sit and watch them all day long. Of course I'd end up with diabetes if i did that but, I can enjoy them while I have a little time.
I love these videos! :)
I like the things you zero in on. You have the curiosity of a true artist. This was so cool Yhank you x 3.
Really cool place, loving your vids
Just found your site, loved the shots of all the abandoned places. Such a shame too. Imagine what they could do with a lot of these locations. Have you ever come across a place that had strange things happened? Sounds and movement that weren't made by you and your team. Haunted? Would love to hear stories on that as well.
Actually, a couple of times when that train groaned over head sounded downright otherworldly. o.~
Sounds like you really had your experience and then some in many areas. Good luck on your next video.
I swear your videos are so cool! I've always loved watching shows and things based in the 1800 and 1900's and to see abandoned buildings and whole train stations is amazing! Just imagining that once this place was alive with a whole bunch of people that the majority of them are dead. I just find it fascinating and would love to visit places like these even if they're not the safest and it may be trespassing ^-^'
Totally cool!! If I lived down there, I would go with you guys. Great adventure.
really cool to see those news clippings, and like you said, they all seem to be bad news. question that makes it even more creepy is that they are burned in place.
LOL that giant teddy bear on the can is hilarious in your intro.
I go to a welding school in the area and a kid from new Jersey was making fun of kids from around here because of how excited we get about abandoned warehouses and stuff. He was like relax scooby doo, I'm 23 years old but I still think the history of this area is fascinating and who wouldn't want to check out places like this.
I just wish they would take out some of the desks those could still be saved!
History is the best subject to learn