I'm going to have to see if there was a Sanborn Fire Insurance Map made of the Coalbreaker area and rail yard so I can find out what that concrete pit was for. I will let you know if I find anything. BTW: The view looking up at the chimney with wispy looking clouds was beautiful! Yes, it would be nice to see what's in the culvert.
Railways always have a place in our hearts and I could wander old tracks all day thinking of the engines that traversed them, even in the dead of night. Lily was cool, and nice to see a fresh pretty face among the ruins of what was once so grand. Nice vid, JP.
My family was from the wilkes barre scranton area of pa.l remember years ago visiting wilkes barre and seeing trains on the Lehigh Valley , Jersey Central , and Delaware & Hudson railroads. My favorite was the D&H. Loved there Alco diesels and the Nathan M3RT1 horns that they had.
Wow-what a find! I thought all of the rails were removed from that area, but you proved that they weren't. The CNJ leased the L&S railroad for a period of 999 years. There was a good-sized yard there and there were shops where rail cars-especially hoppers-were rebuilt. That foundation that you saw could have been the shop itself. There was also a turntable and roundhouse there. My grandfather worked in the Huber mine, and I remember when he took me there and showed me around those buildings. So, yes, this is a great video that jogged my memories.
Date said, BSCO, Which is the Bethlehem Steel Company, STEELTON, which is the rail mill in Steelton, PA, OH, which Open Hearth, which is the cooling method, 1929 is the date, and the -30 was actually 130 RE. Which means the rail is 130 lbs per yard, AREMA Standards, hope this info helps!
Such an awesome way to spend time with Lily. They grow up so fast my friend. My baby girl is 32 yrs old. She is the blond standing beside me. It seems like yesterday she was being carried on my hip now she carries my grandson on her hip..lol... You are such a wealth of information when it comes to coal mining and trains. I had so many family who were miners and I know so little...I had a great uncle who listed the job of braker on his WWI draft card. My momma was a wealth of info except for what actually happened in the mines while her family worked. Girls were spared but her stepbrothers were not. They started young I believe they were about 10 or 11 when they started working in the mines. I learn more and more everytime I watch your videos. Thanks 😊 ✌
At 12:12, I looked on Penn Pilot. There were about 10 sets of tracks there and several buildings (I think I'm where you are; Edit-you are near the roundhouse, the 10 sets are further down). Near the municipal building, there was 2/3 of a roundhouse. It looks like the municipal building is one of the two original buildings that used to be there.
Sadly, I missed the opportunity to check out the breaker before it's demolition. When I return to Pennsylvania, I will definitely check out this area. Seeing the father-daughter time you guys are having is awesome!!!!!
Awesome adventure JP! I'd definitely like to see you return and explore that culvert! Cool old finds in that area, great old history! Great to see you and Lili out exploring! Can't wait to see that culvert!
This was so cool and fun. Lili sure is no longer a little girl, she looks so grown up. I would love for you to go back to these places, you may even have more than one video there. But, please bring someone with you if you are going in that culvert. We need you to stay safe.
Thank you! Love the videos. If you feel brave enough would love to see the culvert! I grew up on the boarder of NY an PA and used to travel to Carbondale, Dunmore, Scranton and more...always loved seeing the old abandoned mines and railways. Thank you!
How nice to be able to spend time with Lili. Looks like you two had a beautiful day for exploring. It's so interesting learning about historic and abandoned train rails. Would be awesome for you to return and explore the culverts. Maybe the remnants of that building was an old train station of some kind. Huber Coal Breaker looks super interesting! Awesome seeing the old locomotive and coal cars especially the car that was loaded. Great video JP, thank you so much!
That was cool!!! Really enjoyed the breaker ruins, interesting. Lili I never guessed you also were afraid of heights when you ride all those fun rides!! But that’s ok. Culvert return , yes please!! 💖💙💖💙💖💙
I've been doing tons of local coal mine, breaker, colliery research and hunting the last 2 years. Such rich history in the valley here. Going through Duryeas website, you can find tons of pictures and historical info and print on that area.
@@JPVideos81 passed it hundreds of times when I was younger but unfortunately, never went in. A friend of mine has and I believe got some solid pictures.
Anthracite has low emissions, and is used to heat pizza ovens. It is difficult to ignite compared to soft coal or bituminous. I know a coal bin that has some shiny coal left from WWII era when the coal furnace was converted to oil. I am curious about the use of anthracite in home heating. My relatives could have told me, but they are gone now.
I used Anthracite for home heating when I was a kid. I'm in my 30s, and when my childhood home went on zillow maybe about a year back it still had the coal stove. It was a pretty efficient system, I don't remember my house being cold.
You find the coolest places to explore. Is this your second set of abandoned rails that appear to be partially used? The culvert would be good but so would an explore of the structure and its close surrounds. I was wondering if it was for train maintenance until you said the tracks you found went along it instead of into it. Great video. Thanks for taking us along.
JP, really enjoyed your video! Hello Lili! Yes please go back and go thru the colverts. That little engine was really cool and so was the coal car. Neat little building with the stove, desk and stool.
Oh yeah definitely return I am all about it !! Shame the Coal Breaker is no longer there sad how history is cast aside sometimes . I would definitely bet both of those narrow gauge items where used in the Coal Breaker so so cool !! Cool to see the stack is still there !! So cool a car loaded with coal !! Really liked those pictures at the end !! Great video as alway's !! 👍👍
Great video, surprised u got to go in that area I believe it was fenced in. A CNJ passed near the firehouse going thru Blackmans Patch back of old Kmart last stop was a recycling place what is Sheetz. Used to bring a ton of cars with salt stored at Post Coal across from Verizon repair on Casey Ave WB Twp. Way back it brought coal from a breaker probably were Wegmans was late 50s. The tracks were removed in the 90s for a sewer updated project. Good memories of a train crossing not far from my back yard near old Kmart
the old trolley line ran through there, under the bridge on the main street. if you follow the main street toward Ashley then left to the highway next to the construction equipment in a trail which goes under the highway .
Thanks Jay Thanks Lilli Very interesting to imagine what was once there, but I can't help thinking of all the unused iron laying about in this country. Central California Watching
I wish like heck they had been able to preserve the old breaker, that must have been an amazing sight. I enjoyed your tour of the park and the nearby abandoned rail spur. Cool that they put some relics in the park to enjoy, and that Lokie is different than the others I've seen. It looks longer, especially in the front. I'm glad Lily was able to join you and I'll check her video out.
That Lokie was used at the wanamie mines to take coal from the 19 slope to the 18 slope location where it would be loaded into rail cars and taken to the Huber for processing. There were 2 others as well 4 and 8. They used them up into the early 70s! Those mine cars came from the franklin colliery and would hold 4 tons of coal. Notice there are no dump doors. Franklin had a rotary dump that would spin the whole mine car over and dump it. It’s a darn shame what happened to the Huber breaker.
It's amazing what can be found in the neighborhood you grew up in, or even a few miles away, especially here in Pennsylvania lol, so much history and great places and people to get video of, I'm just about 60 and I've lived in a lot of places and never really got to explore them, thanks to everyone that makes these kind of videos so there can be places to go see and visit, good video JP and Lily, hope to see more of you in the future young lady
Be sure to look at the rails, as far as I know they always cast a date on them. Sure as I said that you looked at the dates. Yeah you should come back and explore some more.
That was a fun explore...lots of hidden gems along the way ..Loved the tree growing around the old pipe ! Yes, would love to see you explore more of the culvert and old building site .....Really too bad they demolished most of the old buildings ...The Colliery.looked like a really huge outfit in its glory days . Fun to see you with your exploring buddy : }
I now have a new video Series up, Which its called 1926 DL&W 130 RE RAIL RESTORATION. I did a 5 part video of me Restoring my 1926 DL&W 130 RE rail. I found it in a scrap pile in Duryea near Stephenson Street, And I brought it home to restore and Preserve it, (If I didn't collect it, It'd be a piece of DL&W History gone forever). It also has the famous LACKAWANNA logo that I applied to it. (that you'd see on the 426 and 409 switchers).Feel free to check them out and tell me what you think! Always look forward to new videos, Keep up the awesome work!
Nice of your daughter to go along. Hope you treat her to ice cream or lunch after as it is not the type thing a teen is real interested in. Interested in going with Dad but not in dead train tracks probably. LOL. God Bless. xoxoxo
Out west when a RR line became disused, the rails were soon pulled up and used elsewhere or the metal was recycled. It's odd to see so many old rails still in place.
That steel provider is still in operation today. If you look at a recent rail you'll find the same stamping out of Ohio. That line was probably installed later yrs for a different line n hardly used as the end of that rail company. At 1 tyme must've Ben a fairly large operation.
What a fun adventure with many interesting finds! I definitely need to explore those areas more to see what else I can find.
Looking forward to the return trip : }
I'm going to have to see if there was a Sanborn Fire Insurance Map made of the Coalbreaker area and rail yard so I can find out what that concrete pit was for. I will let you know if I find anything. BTW: The view looking up at the chimney with wispy looking clouds was beautiful! Yes, it would be nice to see what's in the culvert.
YES! I sure hope that you return to that area for more exploration. Look on "Historic Aerials" for more info.
Looking forward to return trip
I LOVE these kind of activities. Is it just me or abandoned railroads are somewhat magical ?
this was a fun trip and thank you everyone for the compliments!
Railways always have a place in our hearts and I could wander old tracks all day thinking of the engines that traversed them, even in the dead of night. Lily was cool, and nice to see a fresh pretty face among the ruins of what was once so grand. Nice vid, JP.
love Pennsylvaina rail history,i was born in reading,moved from pa to Florida when i was 15 in 1998,keep the vids comeing.
I love these old historical railroads! The culverts are beautiful! Definitely return here in the future Jay!
I;m right there with ya Jeff. I love finding and exploring these places.
My family was from the wilkes barre scranton area of pa.l remember years ago visiting wilkes barre and seeing trains on the Lehigh Valley , Jersey Central , and Delaware & Hudson railroads. My favorite was the D&H. Loved there Alco diesels and the Nathan M3RT1 horns that they had.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Tfs ❤️
Yes, Jay
Return in the Spring, it should be beautiful then.
So good to see your daughter, it's been a long time.
Cheers,
Rik
Definitely worth a return trip!
Wow-what a find! I thought all of the rails were removed from that area, but you proved that they weren't. The CNJ leased the L&S railroad for a period of 999 years. There was a good-sized yard there and there were shops where rail cars-especially hoppers-were rebuilt. That foundation that you saw could have been the shop itself. There was also a turntable and roundhouse there. My grandfather worked in the Huber mine, and I remember when he took me there and showed me around those buildings. So, yes, this is a great video that jogged my memories.
Thanks for watching and sharing that info. I was shocked how much was still hiding back there.
I really enjoy going on these adventures, it is nice that your daughter is with you. Please do return this place looks very interesting.
Happy to hear you enjoyed our adventure. We had fun exploring these hidden finds.
Date said, BSCO, Which is the Bethlehem Steel Company, STEELTON, which is the rail mill in Steelton, PA, OH, which Open Hearth, which is the cooling method, 1929 is the date, and the -30 was actually 130 RE. Which means the rail is 130 lbs per yard, AREMA Standards, hope this info helps!
Definitely helps. Thanks so much!
@@JPVideos81 NP! Always happy to help with decoding those rails!
What a cool find! And you know you're going back! Just make sure someone is with you! Thank you for sharing this awesome video! Loved it!
You seem to always find amazing places to explore. BTW, Hi Lili! 👋 I love your hair!
Such an awesome way to spend time with Lily. They grow up so fast my friend. My baby girl is 32 yrs old. She is the blond standing beside me. It seems like yesterday she was being carried on my hip now she carries my grandson on her hip..lol... You are such a wealth of information when it comes to coal mining and trains. I had so many family who were miners and I know so little...I had a great uncle who listed the job of braker on his WWI draft card. My momma was a wealth of info except for what actually happened in the mines while her family worked. Girls were spared but her stepbrothers were not. They started young I believe they were about 10 or 11 when they started working in the mines. I learn more and more everytime I watch your videos. Thanks 😊 ✌
I treasure these moments with her and hope to pass on my knowledge and love for exploring to her.
At 12:12, I looked on Penn Pilot. There were about 10 sets of tracks there and several buildings (I think I'm where you are; Edit-you are near the roundhouse, the 10 sets are further down). Near the municipal building, there was 2/3 of a roundhouse. It looks like the municipal building is one of the two original buildings that used to be there.
Yes please return. Love your hikes in the woods.
Culvert exploration is always interesting. Abandoned railways are so neat to explore as well.
I agree with Lily! Loved the cute train engine!. So fun to gave her along!
She was a great exploring partner 💙
Sadly, I missed the opportunity to check out the breaker before it's demolition. When I return to Pennsylvania, I will definitely check out this area. Seeing the father-daughter time you guys are having is awesome!!!!!
If only they kept it around. Sad to see history disappear.
This was such a fun adventure.
So nice to see Lili, God Bless you and your family.
Great History. Has anyone walked/biked the old Lehigh Valley Passenger Mainline from Mountaintop to Wanamie?
Love seeing all these old train rails an the history behind them. I'd enjoy seeing you explore the tunnel.
Awesome adventure JP! I'd definitely like to see you return and explore that culvert! Cool old finds in that area, great old history! Great to see you and Lili out exploring! Can't wait to see that culvert!
Great video! Definitely go for the culvert explore. Nice to see your daughter is catching the exploration bug.
Another interesting adventure J. Would love to see you go back! Nice to see Lili! Love your hair! Love the history of the coal breaker. 👍❤️🥰
History that needs to be shared and preserved. Wish I got to see it before it was gone.
Lots left unexplored def come back!
Awesome video of some great railroad finds! I think the results warrant a return visit. Plus I would love to see the interior of the culverts
I want to see them too!
Yes definitely return trip
Wow - what a fascinating video. Thank you !
This was so cool and fun. Lili sure is no longer a little girl, she looks so grown up. I would love for you to go back to these places, you may even have more than one video there. But, please bring someone with you if you are going in that culvert. We need you to stay safe.
Love this old train history hi Lilly 😊
That was so cool definitely would like to see you go back
Awesome find. Thanks for sharing.
hi the round water thing Seperator you explained we call that in Australia a cyclone were different sizers for grading size
I always enjoy your family adventures ☺️
Thank you! Love the videos. If you feel brave enough would love to see the culvert! I grew up on the boarder of NY an PA and used to travel to Carbondale, Dunmore, Scranton and more...always loved seeing the old abandoned mines and railways. Thank you!
Excellent video JP 👍👍👍👍 I love abandoned rail roads.
Hi Lilly..that's pretty cool to see those rails there and flow of water ..yes return in the future to go through the culvert thanks JP😊
How nice to be able to spend time with Lili. Looks like you two had a beautiful day for exploring. It's so interesting learning about historic and abandoned train rails. Would be awesome for you to return and explore the culverts. Maybe the remnants of that building was an old train station of some kind. Huber Coal Breaker looks super interesting! Awesome seeing the old locomotive and coal cars especially the car that was loaded. Great video JP, thank you so much!
You're welcome! Glad you stopped by to watch.
Lots of exciting finds🚂 Thank you very much for sharing these locations😊
Needs further exploration nice to sèe father n daughter outing x
Go back for sure! Lots of cool stuff there.
That was a fantastic video. Love to see that culvert. Thank you Jason and Lili for the great video ❤️. Marjan, from the Netherlands
She reminds me so much of my daughter 😊
Yes ! Come back some time and check out the culverts !!
That was cool!!! Really enjoyed the breaker ruins, interesting. Lili I never guessed you also were afraid of heights when you ride all those fun rides!! But that’s ok. Culvert return , yes please!! 💖💙💖💙💖💙
Nice find. Good to see Lily there with you. She is growing up so fast! ❤
You should totally 💯 come back and do more exploring in a good 😌 way of course.
I've been doing tons of local coal mine, breaker, colliery research and hunting the last 2 years. Such rich history in the valley here. Going through Duryeas website, you can find tons of pictures and historical info and print on that area.
Have you been inside the Huber breaker?
@@JPVideos81 passed it hundreds of times when I was younger but unfortunately, never went in. A friend of mine has and I believe got some solid pictures.
At 29:50, there were 2 similar structures near Specialty. I think there is one at the Waymart Hotel also.
Lili is so cute! Its good for her, to get out with her Dad in nature. And learn things that are History!
Definitely go back!
Definitely would like to see you return. Great video!
Yes please do go through them.
Greetings from the Oregon coast!
Good to see you... Been awhile since I saw your programs.
Anthracite has low emissions, and is used to heat pizza ovens. It is difficult to ignite compared to soft coal or bituminous. I know a coal bin that has some shiny coal left from WWII era when the coal furnace was converted to oil. I am curious about the use of anthracite in home heating. My relatives could have told me, but they are gone now.
I used Anthracite for home heating when I was a kid. I'm in my 30s, and when my childhood home went on zillow maybe about a year back it still had the coal stove. It was a pretty efficient system, I don't remember my house being cold.
You find the coolest places to explore. Is this your second set of abandoned rails that appear to be partially used? The culvert would be good but so would an explore of the structure and its close surrounds. I was wondering if it was for train maintenance until you said the tracks you found went along it instead of into it. Great video. Thanks for taking us along.
Correct, second set of rails that have showed signs of activity.
Looks like you had some quality father-daughter time. 😊
Great adventure. You know I love train stuff. Definitely do the culvert, though.
yes , come back and explore ...
JP, really enjoyed your video! Hello Lili! Yes please go back and go thru the colverts. That little engine was really cool and so was the coal car. Neat little building with the stove, desk and stool.
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Oh yeah definitely return I am all about it !! Shame the Coal Breaker is no longer there sad how history is cast aside sometimes . I would definitely bet both of those narrow gauge items where used in the Coal Breaker so so cool !! Cool to see the stack is still there !! So cool a car loaded with coal !! Really liked those pictures at the end !! Great video as alway's !! 👍👍
Wait until you see Monday's video where I returned to explore the culvert.
Great video, surprised u got to go in that area I believe it was fenced in. A CNJ passed near the firehouse going thru Blackmans Patch back of old Kmart last stop was a recycling place what is Sheetz. Used to bring a ton of cars with salt stored at Post Coal across from Verizon repair on Casey Ave WB Twp. Way back it brought coal from a breaker probably were Wegmans was late 50s. The tracks were removed in the 90s for a sewer updated project. Good memories of a train crossing not far from my back yard near old Kmart
No fence or signs. Seems to be a regularly used area with locals and it's full of fascinating history.
the old trolley line ran through there, under the bridge on the main street. if you follow the main street toward Ashley then left to the highway next to the construction equipment in a trail which goes under the highway .
Thanks Jay
Thanks Lilli
Very interesting to imagine what was once there, but I can't help thinking of all the unused iron laying about in this country.
Central California Watching
I wish like heck they had been able to preserve the old breaker, that must have been an amazing sight. I enjoyed your tour of the park and the nearby abandoned rail spur. Cool that they put some relics in the park to enjoy, and that Lokie is different than the others I've seen. It looks longer, especially in the front. I'm glad Lily was able to join you and I'll check her video out.
I agree with ya, what a sight it would of been. Thanks for joining us for this little adventure.
That Lokie was used at the wanamie mines to take coal from the 19 slope to the 18 slope location where it would be loaded into rail cars and taken to the Huber for processing. There were 2 others as well 4 and 8. They used them up into the early 70s! Those mine cars came from the franklin colliery and would hold 4 tons of coal. Notice there are no dump doors. Franklin had a rotary dump that would spin the whole mine car over and dump it. It’s a darn shame what happened to the Huber breaker.
Yes it is! And the Saint Nicholas breaker also.
Hi, Lili! Good to see you both. 😃
Oh yes I would love for you to return
water 💧 looks clean
It's amazing what can be found in the neighborhood you grew up in, or even a few miles away, especially here in Pennsylvania lol, so much history and great places and people to get video of, I'm just about 60 and I've lived in a lot of places and never really got to explore them, thanks to everyone that makes these kind of videos so there can be places to go see and visit, good video JP and Lily, hope to see more of you in the future young lady
Yes it is worth the return
That metal box at 22 minutes in looks like an ammo box used in Geocaching.
Cool place. Left a comment on the second video thanks for the info love to learn .58 and still kicking live in port Jervis ny n.j and pa meet .
Great video! I hope you go back.
Definitely interesting place to return to
Nice video, I used to explore that land in my younger days.
Lots to see back there.
you should bring a metal detector with you to some of these places you might find some really cool relics from the past
I wish I was close enough to go out with you sometime that looks like so much fun
Be sure to look at the rails, as far as I know they always cast a date on them. Sure as I said that you looked at the dates. Yeah you should come back and explore some more.
Awesome video i enjoyed watching thanks 👍
That was a fun explore...lots of hidden gems along the way ..Loved the tree growing around the old pipe ! Yes, would love to see you explore more of the culvert and old building site .....Really too bad they demolished most of the old buildings ...The Colliery.looked like a really huge outfit in its glory days . Fun to see you with your exploring buddy : }
She was a big help and we both enjoyed this little adventure.
the active line heads to behind vulcan iron in wilkes barre
Great Video!! Love these video of historical video. Keep it up and yes i would love to see ya return to that area to go in. :D
Lilly is back
There has to be records of such a large yard!!! Maybe more of historical research is on order!!
Cool video! I liked seeing the bonus location. It was very interesting!
Thanks Don. Interesting indeed.
Yes I would love to see wheat those tunnels go to OK
Hi jp and Lili awesome video jp nicely done
Great vid! I enjoy RR archeology
Doesn’t look standard gauge (4’8.5”)
Jay, the UA-camr Styropyro, has an episode where he makes blue coal it's pretty interesting in case any viewers would like to see Blue Coal.
I now have a new video Series up, Which its called 1926 DL&W 130 RE RAIL RESTORATION. I did a 5 part video of me Restoring my 1926 DL&W 130 RE rail. I found it in a scrap pile in Duryea near Stephenson Street, And I brought it home to restore and Preserve it, (If I didn't collect it, It'd be a piece of DL&W History gone forever). It also has the famous LACKAWANNA logo that I applied to it. (that you'd see on the 426 and 409 switchers).Feel free to check them out and tell me what you think! Always look forward to new videos, Keep up the awesome work!
Nice of your daughter to go along. Hope you treat her to ice cream or lunch after as it is not the type thing a teen is real interested in. Interested in going with Dad but not in dead train tracks probably. LOL. God Bless. xoxoxo
She loves adventures as much as I do. Since she's practicing photography, she really loved this area. We both had a great day together.
My guess is that her parents would know what she is interested in, not strangers on UA-cam.
Out west when a RR line became disused, the rails were soon pulled up and used elsewhere or the metal was recycled. It's odd to see so many old rails still in place.
Seems there lots more left behind than reused.
My grandma's side of the was coal miners in eastern Kentucky when the mines closed and moved up to the U.P of Michigan and mined ore
you should metal detect as well,cool what you could find
Off the subject... Love your hair Lili!
That steel provider is still in operation today. If you look at a recent rail you'll find the same stamping out of Ohio. That line was probably installed later yrs for a different line n hardly used as the end of that rail company. At 1 tyme must've Ben a fairly large operation.