My grandpa worked that mine. I would visit that area as a kid and always felt like I was going back in time. I toured it once as a teenager but my curiosity and appreciation was not what it is now. Thank you for the video..hits home. 🙏

@caseyyoung8315

4 ай бұрын

@austinturby9371 that's so cool to to hear about! My great great grandpa used to work for that coal mine as well! SO COOL TO LEARN ABOUT OUR FAMILY HISTORY!

Enjoyed the tour so much ....lots of history there .Seeing the basket of RR spikes reminded me of the Thanksgiving day many years ago when my sisters and I decided to walk along the track near our house. They had recently done maintenance on the track and as we walked along .we picked up the old spikes that had been tossed aside and put them in our pockets .Our jeans became so loaded down we could hardly hold them up on our walk back home . . Daddy thought we were crazy to be so excited about a bunch of old rusty spikes. ...but to us they were treasures . Watching your videos is like a "treasure hunt " , Jay ...thank you for the fun.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you made it in time to watch. 💙

Love those mine tours. Thanks

Fascinating place. Thanks, Jay. And great photography!

Pennsylvania, land of coal mines and steel! That was an interesting tour. Never been in a coal mine before only a gold mine. There are obvious similarities as they all follow the vein. Interesting when he was talking about how far the vein goes all the way to Harrisburg, where I was born. Great tour JP, thanks.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Always fun and interesting to learn about our local history.

That was a pretty awesome visit jay. I loved all the detail they had in those train layout. So much history in all the items they had on those shelves too. So much authentic items. I really enjoyed the tour. Love all What they had to show. Especially the ride going down. Thanks jay for sharing this with me.

This was really cool, I really love these coal mine tours.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. Ill be doing more in the spring

I never knew of this mine until you mentioned it. I like the information that was put out during the tour. Hopefully get to see it next year. Thank you again for another great video.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

I love them small tucked away places. Very good alternative to the lackawanna county mine tour.

Loved the mine tour, very interesting. The old equipment outside is fascinating, especially the steam powered engines. Awesome video and I thank you so much for taking us along with you.

This was a excellent tour these mines are so interesting that's all I can say. One will never find this information in a history book.

Another great find jp.

Love these tours

Thank you for this video. It was done beautifully. I was born and raised in this coal region yet have never been on this tour. It’s now on my list to do. I must say I got emotional watching understanding what my great grandparents, uncles and many family members had to endure to put food on the table.

@JPVideos81

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you watching. Taking the tour in person is the best way to appreciate the hardship of those who risked their lives for a few cents a day.

Mine tours are fun to take on a hot Summer day because the mines are always in the 50s so it’s a good way to cool off.

I would love to tour this mine. I was a coal mine section mechanic for a few years before hitting the gold field. I loved my time spent in the mines it was a whole different world underground and the guys you work with are your work family. You spend as much time or more with your fellow miners then you do at home. Thank you for the awesome footage.

this mine tour and the tour of the associated mining shops is awesome. I've been on several in NE PA region and this one is by far the most interesting and informative. I highly recommend.

My grandfather worked that mine. He lived up in Summit Hill. Ive been to that mine many times.

This is one of the best videos you've done yet. I'm doing my best to make sure that people know about your channel. The rail yard video you did was also a great one (amongst many others), so please don't leave KZread. Christmas is always a busy time for everyone, so don't be discouraged. This is also the stuff that needs to be documented. Anthracite coal burns hotter and almost 50% cleaner. It's still a viable option when modern technologies are too expensive. Catalytic converters can destroy the toxins easier, and reburns the smoke, producing even more heat, reducing the amount needed to provide the equal amount of heat.

@zelbole

4 жыл бұрын

You can reuse almost anything if you really need to. We need to all have the same hope. It makes sense biologically.

@destinationunderground6006

2 жыл бұрын

Why don't they utilize that or a form of that tech to continue to use coal and save an industry that they say is mostly responsible for carbon emissions? If my question is a little vague I can elaborate.

It's been many years since I've been here and I could go back a million times ...I love these types of things. Your video was great and the still shots at the end were beautiful!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Better make a trip back in the spring

Thanks JP this was very interesting

Thank you so much for taking and sharing this tour!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Thank you for sharing. I shared the anthracite region with my wife about 4 years ago and it's one of our favorite places. So much history in that region. You are blessed to be from there Sir. Thank you again!!!

@JPVideos81

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Thanks for doing a mine. I love touring old mines. Great video! See ya on the next one!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome shelley

Thank you so much for the trip out. Jay I enjoyed the ride down under 👌. Good info to. AllieJo.

Love the walking history lessons 👌😁 I really like all of the old tools that the miners used. Most of what y'all show isn't found in a classroom 😁 Thanks for the tour...very interesting and informative 👍👌😀 Another awesome video 🥰 Thanks for sharing 👍😊🥰 Take care and stay safe ❤🙏

This mine is right down the road from my house. I take my son there often. Never a boring trip/tour.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky kid 😁

Very interesting and informative. Have never been in a real coal mine. Just the one at the Science and Industry museum in Chicago which was pretty neat. Thanks JP for another great video.

Love all that old stuff . Things were made so much better back then . ( except) the light for the mines . Thank you this was so cool .

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Very true

It is so amazing. We have basements and sometimes live there, but I'm mind boggled at how they almost build complete cities underground and all that massive equipment there. Your guide was very informative.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Its impressive what they were able to construct back in the 1800s.

Wow. Larger and more sophisticated than Pioneer. These old mines never get old old for me. Loved that old Dodge! Thank you for filming and including as much as you have. Felt like I was there.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Pioneer is next on the list.

Great video, very interesting. Thanks for posting. I used to visit the White Scar limestone caves in North West England, and at the original turn-around point, they used to kill the lights and what an atmosphere that was. It allowed us to experience how it must have been for the man who scraped though tiny holes from the original entrance. They had a figure laying on its belly,. All he had for light, was a couple of candles fixed to the front of the bowler hat. Thanks again. Jack UK.

Best videos keep up the great video making Jay

I will patiently wait!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

🤗

So in a sense the entrance is an incline slope. Love that gated elevator shaft.

Cool video. My Fathers Dad worked both the mine and the #9 Breaker. 1st as a breaker boy and then as a miner. Spent many a summer in Lansford.

Unusual locomotive in the begining. Neat gift shop and great tour. Thank you for a terrific time.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

That locomotive is made small in size for mine work.

Super museum. Informative tour ☺👍

Nice mine tour, ty jay👍👍👍

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

That mine is awesome!!! That shaft was amazing!!! 1000ft down lol. If this was an abandoned find it would be the holy grail of NEPA abandoned mines!!!

@JPVideos81

2 жыл бұрын

You aint kidding. Hope you can come see this with the UGM group.

This was so fascinating!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

💙

Great Video!! Never been in a coal mine...not sure if I would be able too...lol...so love seeing your videos on the mines...so much history!!! Thank you!!!

St watching while do some beading. So interesting. Thanks for the tour.

I took a course in college Marking Art & Design and we made things like at 7:10 but they were mostly buildings. I know how to use an old stove like that. The baby looks like it's in a bath tub of ice cubes. At 8:37- the one with the wringers is what we had to use Up State New York to do our washing in when I was eight. We had the old wooden phone hanging on the wall that you had to pick up the ear piece, wind the phone then talk into the mouth piece and speak to an operator. How things have changed. Can't wait to go in the mine. Thank you for taking us along.

Really great video. Remember as a child the “men” coming home from a day at the mines. Thank you. So very interesting. You give us such knowledge about things I could just wonder about as a kid, summering at family farms. You are the best!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michele

It gave me a better understanding of what it was like working in the mines back then.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

That's the purpose. Thanks for watching.

Great video! Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland is cool too..

Really interesting, enjoyed very much !

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

Very interesting video, i loved it, good job

Great video j p thank you. 👍

Awesome Museum, lots of great items. Loved the stove, have cooked on wood stove, not coal. Mine tour was very interesting. All your videos are just incredible Jay! On to the next!! :)

@barbara-pigeonbray4579

4 жыл бұрын

Cooking on a woodburning stove sounds like fun ( and tricky ) ... .have never done that . We have a reproduction one..castiron in antique mold and wired for electricity. ....just love stuff from "the olde days " ..

@martyjones9374

4 жыл бұрын

@@barbara-pigeonbray4579 Yes was tricky trying to keep the heat right. My Grandma was better at cooking on wood stove & in general. Lol Me too love the stuff from olde days! Take care. :)

Great video. I worked in the soft coal mines in western PA for 17 years.

Just wanted to let you no I subscribed today after watching a few of your videos .you do a wonderful job keep up the good work jp.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks sherry

Back in the day my father was a coal miner. Never got to see the inside of it. Thank you JP it took 66 years to see one. Very interesting.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

The Pioneer Mine in Ashland is a neat tour because they have a small steam engine ride you can take and the mine tour has some really neat fossilized prehistoric trees. I also found Scott Crossfield’s signature on a wall. I’ve also taken the #9 tour and it is unique in its own way too. They said the escape shaft comes out above Boyer’s grocery store up on 209. Thanks for filming this.

I grew up just up the hill from here on Ridge st. My grandfather was a miner in this mine and possibly other ancestors. I know many of the people who helped clean and open the mine to the public.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome

Great video over the top 👍

I dug up one of the Old Company's Lehigh Large porcelain signs near an active Long Island Railroad overpass about 9 years ago. It was rough but it was free.

That was AWESOME, only thing when he turned the lights out... that would of freaked me out.... baby did well. Thanks for another great adventure.

@lorieharley6055

4 жыл бұрын

@Bill Williams So very close to experiencing blindness.

Very cool .

Love the Video JP

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

Reminder is set , looking forward to the video ... but may be late for the premier ...Thanksgiving pie and coffee at my sister's : )

@martyjones9374

4 жыл бұрын

Have a great time at your sisters. I am having lunch with mine tomorrow. Great holiday memories for us. :)

@barbara-pigeonbray4579

4 жыл бұрын

Marty Jones.......yes. and lots of memories of the family all being together ..Now, we are spread out ...from Ohio to Fl. ...sure miss the days when we celebrated together at Mama and Daddy's. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and a good time at Sis' tomorrow : )

👍Thanks Jay. Very interesting and the history

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

wow I need to go to these places, so freaking cool

Cool interesting video friend keep them coming but please stay safe friend from Scotland

That was a very interesting tour.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Awesome footage. Horrible how young the kids were when they starting working in the mines. The elevator shaft was unreal.

My father his father and his siblings all were born in Lansford, both my grandfather's and some of there sons worked in the #9 and #8. My Great Grandfather was killed in the #8 in 1948

My town!! Live right down the road...

Very educational

Great video! Like the montage too! 👍

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

Pretty cool !

wow loved it

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

that steam loco is a Saddle Tank design with the water tank on top of the boiler. Eliminates the need for a trailing tender

awesome video jp liked

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

Went on the tour week before memorial day with my son was originally doing the Lackawanna tour but it was closed. Turned out to also be very good.

@JPVideos81

2 жыл бұрын

All 3 in the area are fantastic and offer something different.

There are still a few companies out here in Western Pa that will offer tours of active Longwall mines as long as you have a friend or family member who works there.

Great job on the video!!! Thanks for the shoutout

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

No problem

Pretty sure the lockers that were suspended from chains in the air served two purposes ,to keep Rats from getting into your stuff and to stop theft ! I delivered to foundries in Erie ,Pa in the 1980's and many locker rooms had open rooms with benches and chain lockers suspended in the air!

So cool

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

🙂

Cool video!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

very educational thank you

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Awesome train jp.

Hi Jay, a very cool tour, the tour guide seemed very knowledgeable and really bought the mine to life so to speak. I really loved the photograph you took of the steam train with the sunset behind it, awesome. You are 38 ???, I thought you were younger, I beat you on age as I turned 51 yesterday ;). Thank you for an indepth look at how an Anthracite mine works and thank you for taking us along. x

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Most people think im older, so i take that as a compliment.

We really enjoyed this video! It made us want to drive the 23 hours it is from us to visit it

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Really?

@annaratliff4638

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 we're seriously thinking about planning a trip now. My son's 5 and he is absolutely obsessed with mines. He loves your videos

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

If you drive that far to see this one, I also recommend the Lackawanna county coal mine tour which I also did a video on.

Very fascinating video! A horrible, dangerous way to have to earn a living. I didn’t know they had such young boys working in the mines! Really cool equipment outside and an awesome museum inside. Thanks for taking us along with you. I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Great photo montage at the end too!!👍🏻😊

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much tara

The Coal Miner's Prayer By W. Calvert Each dawn as we rise, Lord we know all too well....We face only one thing, a pit filled with hell. To scratch out a living the best way we can... But deep in the heart, lies the soul of a man.... With black covered faces, and calloused hands, we work in the dark tunnels, unable to stand. To labour and toil as we harvest the coals..... We silently pray..."Lord, please harvest our souls." Thank you coal miners of yester years and also today and their family's. They suffered much and also today to bring light and heat into homes that without their work those homes would have remained dark and cold. What a very brave lot indeed.💖

I don't know if you still can but, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was built over a mine, and had tours. Haven't been in it since i was a kid, long time ago. lol Some of what you showed reminded me a lot of that tour.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Never knew that

This was awesome, thankyou for sharing:)… Jay, have you been to see the Indian Echo Caverns PA ? I think you will love that, if you haven't :)

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Hope to get there sometime

Just watched this. Great mine to tour! Not sure I'd take a baby in there though... Otherwise looked fun!

@JPVideos81

11 ай бұрын

I wouldn't recommend taking a baby, but it's definitely worth seeing.

At-39:51- Isn't that where they showed in a picture that a steel structure was, kind of looked like an oil rig and they said it was no longer there, but maybe the hole is still there and they have it blocked off for safty reasons and maybe to help keep the water out.

2:11 Ranchleers and farmers use a similiar alignment of rails as a "cattle guard" because it eliminates the need of a gate to keep cattle in, their hooves can't negotiate the rails. There was a Colorado rep or sen who thought the cattle guards could be retrained for other jobs.

You had a like the minute I saw the narrow gauge tracks!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jonsymmonds1120

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 I love old locomotives and trains as you do. Narrow gauge and steam is even better! Thanks JP!

That was awesome but scary. Wouldn’t want to do that work.

That is amazing...I wouldnt beable to walk in there with lights lol I am not that talented. But so sad for young kids to work in there. Thank you so much for this video

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

That old steam engine looks very interesting

I enjoy all your videos this one is one that really hit home though because im from KY and 5 of my brothers worked in the coal mines there for years . One of my brothers got hit in the head with a big piece of coal and he still has coal particles in his head that can be plainly be seen and one of my cousins was killed in a coal mine

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Dangerous, but fascinating profession.

Ha ha I just noticed the guys on top🤣👍

Very interesting! I myself would not be willing to go underground I would be too worried about something collapsing. All the way through your video all I kept thinking about was all of minors and how we still have the black lung program through the federal government.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

These places are inspected and safe.

Is that a orb or a reflection at 26:27. It goes away and comes back in other places too.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

I believe lens flare

I juste watch one of your vidéo in a nine and it was crazy and a was scare for you ... But i'l ne patiently wait for Watching it !!! Hihi