I Love your videos, you make me feel as though I am there. I cannot believe how fast trees and vegetation grow there. in Wales, it would take much longer to become overgrown. Thank you.

son of a gun, I've ridden past there a few times but never went down below to check everything out! Thanks man, I'll be hittin it up this winter

@hiworldstephensonultranate290

2 жыл бұрын

hi Great stuff 4years back!

@hiworldstephensonultranate290

2 жыл бұрын

hi Love ur funny comments Irish fan

Hey thanks for showing the way in. I stood at the back of that park a couple months ago, and didn't even see ruins, let alone a way to get there. But! I found the trail and now I'm here. 👍

I can't imagine the amount of time and labor it took just to do all the stonework at this site.

Thanks so much for these videos of the Mahanoy Plane. Living in Mahanoy City I always wanted to look for the remains. You provided an excellent tour from my lazy boy hahaha. Coal dirt is in my veins from my great grandfather, grandfather and father working for the UMWA. Thanks again!!!!

@jameskellinger8314

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather worked there too. My mother was born there

I enjoy your videos. This one is amazing. All of that architecture is astounding. I wish there were photos of what it looked like in its former glory.

Cool Stuff. Love the old historic sites. Keep up the good work.

Thumbs up! Great find! Not only ruins but abandoned railroad cars...too cool!

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it was a cool spot

Wow! Once again you have both educated and entertained us. Thanks Cliff! I am trying to make my way back through all of your vidoes. I find it interesting that places, such as along the steps and narrow walk, it appears that there was no 'wall' and seems 'open' to below. Realizing it's old, but the stonework looks flat. What an awesome explore! Be safe

Awesome video as always thanks for your hard work and time!!! Watch your six while exploring

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

thanks

Man, what a cool place! Hopefully the fence will keep some of the garbage out of it. Thanks for taking me along, I really enjoyed it!

miss exploring this place, great footage 👍🏻

Wow such an awful lot to see. It’s a shame people think it’s okay to dump rubbish. You were like a little boy in a sweet shop. Just loved that. The stonework was lovely . Thanks for taking me along

Great video explore Cliff. Would love to see a revisit.

I went exploring around there a few years ago. Further down there was more concrete ruins, and I think even a mine entrance. Interesting area and nice video!

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

I'll try to get back there someday and look around some more

@crusher9

6 жыл бұрын

Half way down the incline there used to be a tunnel that went under the plane. We called it Frankensteins cave. It was a narrow gauge railroad that went from a mine to the west and to the east was the St.Laurence Colliery which is below the plane house..

@577buttfan

4 жыл бұрын

@@crusher9 Do you have coordinates for it,Id like to visit tomorrow? paraglidermx0@gmail.com

Cool video and very hazardous being on your own. You should go back with a metal detector, you may find some historic coins etc;

What history, love it.

The rail road stopped using it in 1932 upon completion of their new condo in the valley But they maintained it up until 1976 it was fully functional at time

Really awesome ruins!!!

I had read what an engineering feat this was to accomplish. Shame it was not preserved by the Historical Society or someone. It seems like it goes on forever! Those train cars looked massive. I had never seen them from that viewpoint. Thanks for taking us with you. So much history right there in people's backyard. I wonder how many have actually checked it out?

@masongaming9269

Жыл бұрын

I have

I live right there, I love visiting this place.

This is an interesting video. The spray painting on the wall is somewhat beautiful.

Been there yesterday. Nothing changed. Even a hole is the fence is same))

Pretty cool!!!!

Very Cool!

Wow and it ran for almost 70 years. There's a great history with photos at the anthracite coal history website. To think this was just maybe a 2 hour drive from where I grew up in Lancaster. Have you checked in to the Knox Mine Disaster? It's up by Pittston along the Susquehanna and occurred I believe in 1958 or 59. The river was swallowed up by a big hole in the bed that flooded the mine and killed some men. There's a memorial there. Greg

@6:12 - looks downright treacherous. Better be sure-footed for treks like that. That whole area looks like a dangerous place to be wandering around, especially after dark. My buddy's Grandparents are from Frackville, I'll have to get the "poop" on this place from him one of these days. Nice post, WW

There are many vintage photos of the Mahanoy Plane on the net. Did you ever make it to the area of the weight house at the top?

Great video. Subscribed. There's a place along I-81 going up close to Hazleton PA. Looks like a huge pole with a bunch of vehicles impaled on it. What is the story behind it?

@barbh66

6 жыл бұрын

Unit 265 That would be Harry's u pull it junk yard.

Mother nature's taking it back for the Team!

My dad was born and raised in Mahanoy plane. My grandfather grew up with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey.

the wall at the beginning was beautiful that building is massive how did they get the train cars in the woods? so far i think this is your best video and my favorite!

cool place there are lots of old coal mine places here in west virginia to

When you were looking down in the valley at the row of houses @1:00, was that Maizeville or Mahanoy Plane?

thanks

Sweet place!

good work man if ur local to hazleton we should do a colab

15:03 these two pits are definitely there the upper pulling wheels were located. All of the weight of the cars was borne by these structures.

How do you get there

We talk to you the whole time you are in these places. “Cliff, no! Don’t climb in there!” Cliff, that’s dangerous, stop!”

Not just watch for snakes but nails too I always get nervous once you shine your light there is a animal waiting for you and you frighten it

Cliff has cahones of steel. All these tunnels and small places!

You weren't to far from the old stage coach stop behind the schuykill mall. On the old kings highway

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

I've tried to find info online about this place, but came up blank..

@charlesleshko9095

6 жыл бұрын

Try the pottsville republican they had a story about it and pictures

Great work ..I strongly suggest you buy and carry a take down 9 mm carbine and a large combat knife if you go on these excursions in case of 4 legged or 2 legged predators..SERIOUSLY ..GREAT WORK and DEDICATION to forgotten history..I LOVE watching your videos..BE SAFE

Wish we could see it the way it was compared to current.

12:00 Brown Recluse

👍🏼❤️

Here's a link to the page I found(article is from 2015) about this place complete with a lot of historical photos of it. anthracitecoalregion.com/2015/01/07/a-plane-engineering-feat-facts-photos-and-film-of-the-mahanoy-plane/

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@BestofBCT

6 жыл бұрын

Wow what a hellish industrial nightmare.

The nickname of that area is called the Rockies

@brookemickalowski8491

5 жыл бұрын

nik mxforever I thought it was Frankie’s

Hey I live in Frackville.

i hiked the mahanoy plane after your video. great footage...but you should walk down the rest of the plane and explore the remains of the lawrence colliery. love to watch your videos and discover new places to explore....A+++!!!....check out my train AND BACKYARD RAILROAD 80, 90, and 95. made form the "frackville incline" shown on a u tuber video. be safe.....bee season soon over

I can't understand what the purpose of the tunnels was.

You certainly like to be underground. I'll do the heights; you do the caves, tunnels, mines...

Judging by this postcard from a website article I just found about the Mahanoy Plane, it looks like that big, long building you were exploring inside of the different parts of was possibly the engine room. anthracitecoalregion.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/mahanoyplanepostcard2.jpg

:)

Looks like an old coal bunker

those ruins look a lot like the ruins on the ironton rail trial. there's some pretty cool buildings there i believe one was a mill of some sort. if you look for mile marker 3.5 right around the american legion area in houkandauqa, its in that vicinity. in case your in that area to do a video on that.

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

I'll look into it, thanks

You've probably already found this webpage, but there's a very good collection of information on the plane at: anthracitecoalregion.com/2015/01/07/a-plane-engineering-feat-facts-photos-and-film-of-the-mahanoy-plane/ The long building would have been the boiler house (those chutes in the wall were probably ash dumps) while the area behind that would have been where the hoisting engines and equipment were. Good video.

@crusher9

6 жыл бұрын

I'm from Frackville. We explored that area countless times in the 60's. One of the interesting things was the wooden steps that went from Mahanoy Plane to the top of the mountain. They were mostly deteriorated back then and no longer exist.

What about bears .

I love all your video's.id definitely be packing protection never know hen you'd run into a bunch of creeps

@bluemountaindrivepae

6 жыл бұрын

I backpacked 8 months with no gun or knife and no-one harmed me.

can not believe people walk that far just to throw trash

doodlebob named this

I asked so many people this maybe you know the answer. Was PA under the ocean through the whole prehistoric period or was any dinosaur bones ever discovered? I mean reptilian or land dinosaurs? The only fossils I ever see are those cockroach ones with many segments

I watched your videos in lansford coal mine ruins and you missed all the good stuff in this area. I live in lansford and I know we're all the really good stuff is that you missed. . If you want to come back this way and make a collaborative video I'll take you into an old mine and show you some awesome stuff you missed . I know this whole area very well. Just let me know

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

I'll keep that in mind, not sure when I'm getting back up that way again

Looks like a hang out for some SCUMMY human beings

It would be a fun place to camp if you clean all that shite out of there, rake up all those wet leaves, sprinkle some floor dry where necessary, construct safety railing around dangerous ledges, and set up some torch lit passages, topless women w/baskets of fruit, portable guitar amps, hamlet recitals ect.

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

6 жыл бұрын

It would clean up nice

Put cameras out there and the human trash throwing trash all over , and graffiti , should be made clean it all up for free.