More random items found in the woods thanks to Google Maps. Do you think the second item held water?

@spankthemonkey3437

4 ай бұрын

I bet you could find some old silver and possibly gold coins around there🤔

@TSiArt1

4 ай бұрын

I wonder what historical aerial photos of the area show

@louishurter4952

4 ай бұрын

It can be old war bunkers how do we no

@tmj9439

2 ай бұрын

The old way that comestible/used water Aqueduct reservoir system was at community's service.🤝😌 "Progress!", they said!🤖 But wasn't it there yet in Ancient Rome?? Yeah! This way of an operating current water system is still crossing huge through all the Europes!!? And still have huge citerns under some huge towns, that aren't Catacombs..and is now domestically compatible with electricity and nobody dies! There's only 3 or 4 differences i could easily identify and also splits the old way from the modern way to be build the best fonctional aqueduct system, thinked, planned n materialized to this day.. 🎶I'm done!💥😌 P.S: I'm still fascinated by what you're presenting on your vids, the whole thing!! So calming! Some Healthy, Zen, Feng Shui Yoga sceance for the mind. 😮👌🏼

Jay, I would agree with the upper foundation being a water collection basin for filling locomotives. If you look at the 1939 photo, there is a round object off of the north corner of the lower foundation. Possibly a water tower that was filled from the basin? Another great find!!!

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Yes, that is most likely what it was.

@zaklex3165

4 ай бұрын

@@JPVideos81 The second building could have been for water treatment before the water was sent down to a what looks an old water tank for the railroad on the old photo.

@tracyrimmer630

3 ай бұрын

Agreed - I truly believe that it was a filling station for the steam engine locomotives. The lower building may have been a coal reservoir, or more likely, a residence/wayhouse for the train crews.

@youn8e

3 ай бұрын

Yes a catchment system

@youn8e

3 ай бұрын

​@@zaklex3165 Yes...I made note of the white round structure 😉‼️

My guess is the upper structure was a reservoir and the lower possibly a valve house to provide water for the rail line. The PRR seemed to favor round stone pools and round valve houses but usually a similar relationship to each other and the line they served

I wonder if it was a retention pond for a gravity fed mill below the hill?

That hunk of steel looks like a heat exchanger for an old furnace.

@user-ci9ri4fl5pBuckeyeChessie

3 ай бұрын

That what I thought too...

Picture and audio are excellent Jay

That rusty metal piece reminds me of the heat exchanger you see in old gas floor furnaces. You know, what is just below the grate set at floor level.

@Ranthra1

4 ай бұрын

Was going to say that. LOL

I do miss walking through a path in the woods looks so nice 👌 ❤❤..

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Always relaxing, peaceful and sometimes interesting.

Water sources were critical for the railroad for the steam engines Some of the locomotives were designed to draw water out of creeks and storage reservoirs I remember seeing tanks along side the mountains where the tracks were up in rural VT, NH, NY and Canada They had natural little creeks and they built storage tanks of wood that the creek filled and overflowed out of

Your channel showed up in my recommended list, and I'm so glad it did! This was an awesome adventure. My son and I go on a lot of road trips, and we usually take the long way through towns instead of the Interstate because we love to find places randomly. It always drives me crazy when we pass by a place that looks very old and has long been abandoned, and I can't figure out what it could've been, so I can imagine that not knowing what these two objects once were probably drove you nuts, too 😂 Really great channel, though. I will check out more of your videos.

@JPVideos81

3 ай бұрын

I have a strong sense of curiosity and love finding random places, especially ones that haven't been used for decades. As much as I want to know what it is, I'm often left with more questions than answers. Thanks for watching.

Would be interesting to take a metal detector to this place. I bet you will find stuff like vintage cutlery, toothpaste tubes, padlocks, etc...

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Yes and probably underground pipes.

"...chocolate pellets. Remember, kids, if you find those, don't eat them. They're not Milk Duds."😆😂🤣Loved this adventure! You found both targets! And some interesting things along the way, too! Lots of pretty Nature's carpet, a spring, a creek bed with lovely sounds of flowing water...very Zen place. Your camera that follows you and your wireless microphone both work exceptionally well. I bet this area is gorgeous in the spring and fall. Thanks for bringing us along!💙

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

🤣💙

My guess would be a large farmhouse with a basement/cellar and a large barn with sub-level. A lot of barns were built like that decades ago. Good find.

I think the smaller object was the water tank. It was an old wooden water tank, and you are seeing the roof in the old photos. The larger upper structure was probably a reservoir that filled the tank below. Then maybe somewhere down the hill by the tracks, there would be just a stand alone water column that was fed from the tank on the hill. Or its possible the reservoir fed straight to a water column, and the smaller building was a coaling station, with a roof to keep the coal dry. Which in your old photo, I didn't see a lot of signs of how coal would have been brought in and moved for a coaling station, so sort of doubtful it was that. They did make square water tanks, even though they are a bit rare to find.

Great finds and I especially liked the exercise class in the pool lol. Your camera looked great but all your videos look great. Have a great weekend JP, see you next week. 🤗

Awesome Google Maps adventure JP! Seeing the old airel photos and the Google maps photos in comparison is awesome! Reminds me of the old water reservoirs that are in my area!Thanks for bringing us along for another great adventure!👍

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

It was my pleasure. I enjoy doing these adventures.

Central California watching Woohoo so ready for this !!!!!

Glad you were able to find the structures .....so very interesting ( and mysterious ) .. The picture and audio quality of your camera was great and love how it followed you as you moved about ...great feature . Thank you for taking us along on another google map search . 👍💙

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Wish I was able to find out the purpose of the structures, but I'm happy I found them and that little spring well.

As a young boy in California I have fond memories of riding horses out to different ranches that had water collection basins (rectangular cement ponds) the farmers would use to water their mainly tree crops. Such fun just innocently skinny dipping with my friends in these water basins. Thank you for bringing back those wonderful memories. 👍

Really relaxing and peaceful journey through the woods. The little spring well was an awesome find and it had some beautiful nature's carpet on it too. The little manmade creek bed and waterfall was also very cool, always love the sound of the water. It was great that you found the structures you were looking for and yes, I am thinking the second structure was used for water too, like a reserve or reservoir or like you said, a pool especially seeing the pipe. It would have been a huge pool for sure and looking at the map, it sure looked like a pool. Love the workout activity! 😂I can't think of what the movie was, but I feel like I should know what it is. lol Awesome google maps finds and what a great video JP, thank you! 💙

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Haha that's ok. It's a comedy movie starring Will Ferrell. Thanks for coming along for the adventure.

I think that the reservoir and filling station sitting on natural gradient makes the most sence

Good one JP, a mystery. Thank you for the experience. I enjoyed it. ❤

Your videos never disappoint J. Always something to discover. You liv in a really cool area with a lot to see and discover. Thanks for sharing it with us! This a very Intriguing. I hope we explore it further.😊

I love the Google maps videos!. I love just searching on Google maps for weird objects or something. It's so fun

Why does it look like there is someone standing up on the hill behind the rock that has JAKE on it? Looks like someone in a trench coat with a hat 🎩 on?

@jaclyn.b

4 ай бұрын

I see it, at 13:43 and then again at 14:03

@mgratk

4 ай бұрын

Very cool example of pareidolia.

@LilithBleed

4 ай бұрын

Or a ghost. Pareidolia... pffft

@november151956

4 ай бұрын

I zoomed in on it and it's the base of the tree. You can see the bark.

@mgratk

4 ай бұрын

@@november151956 OR it is the ghost of a tree.

The Library of Congress site has a map named Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1890, which shows the hillside here. It's hand drawn, so not exactly perfect, but there are a few small factories and structures around where these foundations would be.

This could be a fort during the Revolutionary or Civil War. Also, this could be a forgotten township. Check with the elderly Seniors living in the area. You may get lucky and find out about the history of the area.

I think the larger was a water reservoir and the smaller was a control building to the steam locomotives? A swimming pool way up there? Nah. Thanks for your videos.

The building has been built maybe late 18th, early 19th centry and worked till early 50's. Maybe a water tower or some property. Also, the older American buildings of 18-19th centuries had rocky bottom and upper wooden part. Actually, this design was same to other countries' of the same century. My country is post Soviet and even before Soviets, it was post Russian Tsardom country. And in late 18th century some buildings around the rural areas, especially around the woods and forests, were having this type of structure. Especially old water towers. I bet, this building is old enough as outlaws era - late 18th century.

Excellent video JP, the picture quality is excellent too. I think it could have been used to store water, interesting find JP. 👍👍👍👍

The D&H built ponds and catchments there to supply water to steam engines, not to power locomotives but to power the stationary hoists that pulled the cars of the gravity railroad up the mountain. I haven't been able to find an old map showing them but probably the larger structure is the pool and the smaller foundation enclosed the steam hoist equipment. The D&H modified the route of the gravity lined a number of times and when they abandoned it in favor of steam locos, the new tracks obviously couldn't follow the steep grades of the old tracks. That explains to me why those old structures aren't near the rail bed you hiked on. Also, the location of the site was so close to the D&H shops that locos wouldn't need to stop there for water when the line ended a mile west. In your previous video in the same area, the residential road you were on that took you to the brook was pretty much Plane No. 4 of the Gravity Railroad. After crossing the brook, the tracks went up the steep hill to the coal breaker. There is a fire house at one edge of the large cleared area along the highway where the breaker once stood. (New subscriber to your channel. Thanks!)

Everything is clear and sound is excellent

Hey Jay! Very interesting finds!!! I enjoy watching videos like this!!! You never know what will be found in the woods!!! I sure miss my days of walking around in the woods and discovering the things left behind!!! Thank you Jay for doing and sharing the exploring that I can't do anymore 💙💙💙 God bless you and your family, keep y'all healthy and safe 🙏❤️🙏 Much love to y'all ❤️

I love your videos ❤. Audio sounds great and I like feeling like I'm holding the camera and there on the hike! The dad jokes are fantastic, love the authenticity. Step Brothers reference was great 😂. Love the photography at the end too. Would like more research and history of the areas, old photos, and info. I'd enjoy if there were maybe some residents or experts interviewed that could give more clues at the end as to what the things are. Great idea to build interest with the speculation. Please keep making these, they're really cool!

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Appreciate you watching and sharing your thoughts.

I really like your Google Maps discovery videos. After a stressful day those videos are really perfect to disconnect and wind down a bit. Thanks and keep up the great work. Greetings from my home in Spain. 😊

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and enjoying

Nice walk in the woods and great find, very interesting. Your camera is working beautifully! 👍🥰❤️

In the days of the steam locomotives, this area was certainly still pure wilderness. Therefore, it is quite possible that the point at which these ruins are located was formerly used to refill water at the steam locomotives. There were also systems in which the steam locomotives were equipped with a bucket system, which allowed them to draw water through water troughs between the rails. Such a system was formerly used by the New York Central Railroad.

Ice pond and the smaller ice house. Gravity fail carried ice blocks to city!

The sound was perfect! I'm and audio and video snob so yours was the gold standard.

I just love your videos. Very interesting how you do your presentations and narration. I like the new camera and microphone set up. It seems that you don't know what you are going to do next. I also like the black out screen knowing something different is coming up.

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Great find thanks

Obviously a house and barn. No way that is a water collection. That area is well known for homes and barn construction to have foundations like that. It more than likely had nothing to do with the railroad

Hello JP great video like always liking your new camera the second spot I thought was a pool of some kind but not a swimming pool take care love from upstate New York❤😊

Check around the tracks to see if there is any remnants of a water station.

Pretty cool Google maps finds and adventure great video thanks jay

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Gary

I would almost bet the two structures some how worked in conjunction, the upper one being a reservoir of sorts. The spring well was a cool little surprise. Thanks for bringing us along.

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

I believe so as well

I'm really liking that camera. The picture and audio quality are excellent. That metal object to me looks like a cumbustion chamber for a furnace of some type. Great video as always!

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

I'm loving the creativity the camera allows me to have and it's the best audio I've had. Thanks for checking out the Adventure.

Agree. Could be a water source for train for steam The lower one could have been part of station or town. So water cistern for both

Very interesting finds! The very thick walls of the structures indicate it had to hold a lot of weight. They may have been reservoirs for drinking or related to the railroad or as a result of the mining in the area.

Interesting video!! Great to see someone making use of the gimble tracking!!!!

Hi Jay I’m thinking that the rusty iron next to the pool was a type of furnace or boiler. Both use those type of fins and have a common thru piping system.

Wow Jay, I am intrigued with the number of different abondoned rail lined in your area. That large structure had to be something huge. 😳 I suspect like you it must have been a pool. Possibly something related to the Delaware and Hudson. A collection basin would seem more logical. As far the other structure perhaps related to this. I winder if there are any documents from the old D & H that could explain more. Great video as always enjoyable! Oh yea there are some incredible amounts of birch trees. As farcas the metal object I haven't a clue.

I'm guessing these structures could be water collection. Possibly for use with the steam locomotives of the day? Who knows. There should be a location of foundations for a water tower near there too, if that were the case. Great find.

Definitely a very interesting discovery. Enjoyed every second of the video it has me perplexed what those could be used for. Looking forward to more content like this and also the summer time footage you mentioned. As always stay safe healthy and God bless you, family, friends and all your viewers💙

This was a awesome video as usual and the camera was outstanding, you nailed it with this one Jay👍👍

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Thanks I enjoyed watching

Catch tanks for a steam powered locomotive. If you look straight down below it, at the tracks, you'll probably find the footings for the filling apparatus tower or tank.

😂I don't get any bonus points! I have no idea what movie that was from!😂 A water collection makes sense. New camera is awesome!! Very interesting video!!

@LOSTinS.C

4 ай бұрын

Step Brothers.

i would agree with you on the water reserve. thanks for sharing . ❤❤ stay safe we love you

nice video jp thanks for sharing this one keep up the great work buddy

Im wondering, is there a lot of tornadic activity in the areas you explore? That may account for some of the random objects (or collapsed structures) you come across in your explorations?

@JPVideos81

2 ай бұрын

Tornadoes are not very common around here.

12:53 at this point I become curious about where the traffic that keeps the road easily passable, goes to

Wow that foundation isn’t going anywhere unless humans remove it

Reminds me of walking into the forest creeks with my friends when I was in my rural middle and high school, was always fun.

@JPVideos81

3 ай бұрын

You never know what you might find

A part of the D&H RR is active up where I live. Norfolk Southern uses it now. Where some store's are now, used to be D&H's rail yard.

I really like your videos,they are very interesting. Id like to go hiking and exploring but my hips won't let me,so I guess I'll have to live vicariously through you doing it,thank you

@JPVideos81

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

For Jay's bonus points with his exercise movie trivia; Is it Clark Griswald from National Lampoons Vacation.

@JPVideos81

2 ай бұрын

Step brothers starring Will Ferrell

@bentdriver

2 ай бұрын

@@JPVideos81 Okay, I was way off. I have not seen Step brothers yet. Any way keep up the good work making these videos they are very interesting.

The second item looks like a gravity fed water system for steam trains. Rather than rely on a pump there would have been a trough that would bring the water down the hill to the locomotive.

Thanks Jay

The audio and video are excellent.

I'd say something with the railroad and Stepbrothers was the refrance

Another source of information is US Geological Survey maps. Some of those go back to the 1800s. Also, for some places - especially with houses and businesses - there are insurance companies "fire" maps.

Amazing video and audio. I was just wondering what camera you were using when you asked that. lol

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

It's the DJI pocket 3

Another possibility is livestock pens. They are usually low walled rectangular structures near RR lines.

Also. Steam locos needed a water source low in minerals for the boiler. Otherwise scale was built too quickly.

I imagine they were basins and probably quite a bit deeper when they were in use, I imagine there was quite a lot of build up of dirt over the decades. Some of the trees look pretty old already.

video and audio are both great. thanks for another interesting video

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

Appreciate the feedback

The new camera is amazing I love your videos they inspire me to explore more

Cool video, thanx for sharing, sweet gear boss, looks and sounds great. I really dig all the 'B' roll edited in, gives the video more depth. @7:25 I thought I saw tall, dark movement in the trees, up the hill to the far left, anyone? Can't be too tough of a climb if you can climb up, set the camera, walk back down, walk up again with dialog, then walk back down to get your camera and then walk back up again...hahahaha. Maybe you could bring a metal detector up there and check it out.

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

All that b-roll is lots of extra effort, but it helps tell the story of the journey.

There's more of these in the patch of woods between Rogers Street and Wayne Street. Again they are right next to the D&H Right of Way. But these are not on any elevation. Also if you ever want to find out which historic picture tile he is showing you. Just search the number on the top upper right of the photo on the PASDA website. Most railroad historic organizations have line Maps that show where every interlock, tower, flagstop, culvert, water refill, ect. Is located. Also cross refrence where the C.C.C. camps were located. Kinda looks like a foundation for a mess hall/bunk house for a camp. But then a lot of C.C.C. camps utilized canvas tents with only 1-2 small stone foundation structures.

you said the d&h railway, and then the gravity line, which ran from Honesdale Pa to Carbondale PA. then moved down to Olyphant and on to Scranton, but they used D7H special Loree's to run along those areas The Gravity Line ran though between Carbondale and Honesdale through a series of planes. I know because I live very close to what was the Heavy Track of the D&H

That metal object is a heat exchanger from old heater or furnace.

This was a nice walk in the woods. Icant remember what movie the exercise sequence was from!

i am wondering if the building was a livestock holding area? We have livestock pens up here in some of our old towns and they are made with a stonewall just like that one. the farmers may have left them while they waited for the train to collect them and ship them out. ours are called lost and found pens for the livestock. occasionally horse, cows, or even oxen would get loose and someone would catch them up and put them in the holding pen. one nearby to me even has the wood gate still.

There is a feature like these in the woods near my home, and it wasn’t very far from where an old rr line ran thru, I’ve seen it with my own eyes, walls exactly like these and it did/does hold water from a natural spring.

@bbybby91

3 ай бұрын

40.05528° N, 77.52764° W is the exact coordinates if you’d like to compare what it looks like to what is in this video.

Nice video

The fact that it is built on a overlook hints to the fact that it was used by a military unit.

@ 19:19 you can see that the stones laid across the top of the wall follow an arch with keystone design. Also that top layer is separate and continuous all the way around, both features are entirely aesthetic, meaning this would not have been a foundation, and the stream trickling under those dead leaves is not a coincidence, that was in fact a pool. Now, was it a reservoir, or recreational?? That's the real question. Research the architectural era it most closely matches, and see what local town hall records say was there, or closest known structure to there, during the "..." century. Probably 19th century, maybe 18th at earliest.

You ever look at Boise, Idaho on G. maps and pan out about 10,000 ft up? I see how they have shaped their potatoe farms.

"Jake", has to be...a Bigfoot Family gravesite, who buried their grandfather, in that specific area. Who knew they could even read and write?

both for water one is for sediment to settle in the other is to draw from

Cool. For the first structure/foundation... if there were brick or mortar walls, do you think there would be some evidence of that? You know, old pieces of brick, etc

Lower structure I would just about bet and agree with another comment on here it was either a valve house or combination valve house and rail house for workers, and top was probably a basin for water to feed both the rail road and house

They are water reservoirs for the old steam trains that came through

I love Google Map adventures, how come you did not share the location so we can follow along? The camera and audio are great, thanks again for the exploration.

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

More info on the location will be shared when I return to do my google find revisit (nearby to this one) from 2023 where I'll be sharing lots more info about the area.

Did we just become best friends? Yup! Haha Another great video! I just love exploring!

@JPVideos81

4 ай бұрын

😁

large enough to be a dairy barn or a school building or a church. my first thought was reservoir.

That metal object is an old oil burning furnace. Probably from the first building you explored

Metal object at 29:30, is possibly a heat exchanger?

Water for the steam engines or someone's private fish hatchery. Stay well.