went to grade school right across the street from Saint Nicholas and remember two doors down from the school a blind man had a candy shop in the front room of the house, I think our patch was called Boston Run right by the railroad tracks . Thank You for the memory's ….

I remember exploring this place in 2011 before they took the windows/siding off. What an incredible time, like a rush of history combined with adrenaline!! It was like a time capsule.

That breaker was defiant as hell when they tried taking it down, those beams didn't want to budge!

My dad was from there I remember driving past it many years ago when visiting my grandmother

Wow, excellent, excellent video, awesome drone flying and true work or art. Very rare to see such pride and professionalism taken in putting a video together today, believe me I know what it takes. I have some drone video back in 2014 when the shell was still up and when the gimbal was still unstable unlike rock solid shots today. It hurts to see such a piece of history in the coal mining industry to be gone forever. What an icon. My grandfather lived in Patriotic Hill right up the way back in the 1930's, only wish he could have caught images then the way we do today. I saw that breaker for the 1st time back in the 80's when I took a trip with my grandparents. It hurts to see it being dismantled now, but glad to see videos like this to preserve some history.

@GroundPilotImages

7 жыл бұрын

firebuffvideo thank you. It does take a lot of time and effort to put together a decent video. I'm glad you can understand what is involved with it. That footage would still be very cool and I wish that I would've discovered this place a little sooner. I can't imagine the feeling that people get that have so many memories of this place because even with me, not having any emotional attachment to it, it was heartbreaking to see such and incredible place in the state it's in now and knowing it will soon be gone.

@MicroSoftner

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome drone footage, at least we got that!

I admire your drone work and the editing of the video. I live up near Mahanoy and I loved seeing this whenever I drove up that way. The sight this gives is amazing and just to think 50 years ago this masterpiece was created. I am definitely gonna get up there again and take a closer look maybe even go inside I'm not sure yet but I definitely want something to do with it. Thank you for this video.

@GroundPilotImages

6 жыл бұрын

JestR Thank you! It was quite the site to see and I really wish I could’ve witnessed it in action when it was in operation. I hope there is still something left for you to see. Be careful if you decide to go inside unless you have permission. It is fenced off with no trespassing signs around it.

Beautifully done and I was surprised to see one of my photos used. I don't really mind. :)

@GroundPilotImages

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Bacha Thank you and thank you for not minding I used one of your pictures. I wasn’t sure the originator of the photos so I just put the website address on the picture from where I got them from.

Coal keeps the lights on, i always see that driving through there, great video ground pilot.

I lived in Hazleton for many years have been to see this historic breaker. Thanks for video.

Excellent tribute to the St Nicholas Breaker. I’m glad I was able to tour it a few times before it’s demise. Unfortunately Locust Summit was already gone by then. Did they take down the remains of Maple Hill at the same time. There was still a head frame there when I was last there, probably 10 years ago.

Both breakers are GONE. The summit opened the year I was born ,1930 and closed the year I was married ,1955 . I had taken many photos of both breakers while they were being torn down scrapped for the steel which no doubt was sent to CHINA since this country no longer makes it's own steel. .

very very nice thank you!!!

@GroundPilotImages

6 жыл бұрын

Lee Turner Thank you too!!

Remember Seeing it and being in AWE of it.

Awesome

Good video! Many years ago I found two 0-4-0T mine locomotives nearly hidden in the weeds nearby. Does anyone know what became of these little engines?

My dad worked there for years.

@butter7734

Ай бұрын

Ha, so did mine.

How do they break coal and iron now?

the mining in Pa. has left horrible scars on the landscape there every time I make the trip up 81 its not a pretty site in a lot of the trip wonder why the state was never really big on reclaiming the land

@CrumblingDecayAmerica

5 жыл бұрын

omg my car was black going through there lmao

@rebel3891

2 жыл бұрын

Was just thinking the same thing; I get that it powered the Industrial Revolution and "kept the lights on" but it's time humans moved on from fossil fuels. Not only did they leave scars on the planet but the owners were allowed to just abandon these sites without responsibility and they get left like this or taxpayers have to pay to clean them up.

@andrewdonohue1853

7 ай бұрын

@@rebel3891 im looking at a keystoker 90K keeping my house warm as i type this. anthracite burns cleanly and efficiently. i heat 130 year old house with less then 3 tons per year of rice. if you used "green energy" you might as well burn the house down and build new. the heat would cost as much as the mortgage. i can afford neither green nonsense nor a modern $$$$ house. i see nothing wrong with using ALL forms of available energy, choose what fits your life, budget, and situation the best. i will continue to burn anthracite, diesel, gasoline and whatever else makes my life better. "fossil fuels" make our modern lives possible and more affordable, people will starve and freeze without inexpensive and reliable energy i'd say there are multiple culm piles in PA that they should run through the breakers again and recover energy lost to just sitting in the piles.

@Paladin70

6 ай бұрын

@@rebel3891 When you figure out how to manufacture almost every item you use daily without a fossil fuel (mostly petroleum), let us know and then we’ll consider “moving on.” It is wise to educate oneself just a little before speaking out of ignorance and exposing one’s foolery.

@mmihalik4035

Ай бұрын

@@Paladin70 There are smarter minds that have figured it out. Even the latest hydrocarbon mags are saying coal is out. Many folks have your same POV, same as they did "when you figure out how we can move on from horses and mules doing all the work" or "when you figure out how we can survive without whale oil". It happened. And we're better for it.

can you be contacted somehow....

My dad worked there.

@channelmixer

16 күн бұрын

I would have loved to have talked to him about his experiences working there. It was like visiting a cathedral

@butter7734

16 күн бұрын

@@channelmixer I remember when I was very young going there and my dad took me for rides in the uke trucks.

how much coal is there left still underground there?

@GroundPilotImages

6 жыл бұрын

Lee Turner There is quite a bit. The breaker is sitting on a huge vein of coal and that is the reason they are tearing it down so they can get to the coal.

@daveestes942

5 жыл бұрын

most good coal today is just the left overs and bits and pieces that the old timers never got to these mines were operating in some cases for over a hundred years and the deep miners got almost everything that was good

@rippitallout149

2 жыл бұрын

Billions of dollars worth sitting underneath the Town. China wants it.

@ldnelso2

11 ай бұрын

There are 8 billion tons of anthracite reserves in eastern PA. In other words, there us an unimaginable amount of it left.

Did they kill your fb page 🤷‍♂️

@GroundPilotImages

4 жыл бұрын

Crumbling Decay America try it now. I deactivated my personal account briefly and it must have shut off my Ground Pilots page. Try it now.

@robertfeinberg748

3 жыл бұрын

BTW, I don't have a FB page, but when I attempted to sign in to accommodate someone, I learned that I'm banned, probably because they've been reading my mail and have learned what I've said about them. A word to the wise.

MC kmb coal mining production corporation

@krystinevans8596

2 жыл бұрын

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@krystinevans8596

2 жыл бұрын

Love me yet family 😍💖

Your life must be-very boring if you think the breaker is another wonder of nature.

@channelmixer

16 күн бұрын

Trust me, it was a very special place and exploring the site was something I will always treasure.