Forgotten Engineering Marvel - Now In Ruins

The graffiti idiots strike again. Such disrespect!
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FORGOTTEN HISTORY!

Add water to a dark place and I'm out. Just makes me feel really uncomfortable.

Built by Irish immigrants. Transfer of coal from small gauge to large
New Jersey Central gravity RR nearby
Molly Maguire country

This is only about 10 minutes up the grade from me. Really cool place, I was back there once or twice.

If coal was hauled up the mountain for the town then the coal dropped into those stone bins could be unloaded into trucks via the chutes with the steel doors in the bottom of the bin. The immobilized railcars with the chutes attached were probably also used for coal storage.

You guys certainly have some of the best abandoned places there on the East Coast.

ALSO IN BULGARIA. IN SAMAKOV. which means ONLY-FORGE. here still a 30 THIRTY!! STAGED WATERFALL IS IN THE CITY CENTRE. UNBELIEVABLE. NO WHERE IN THE WORLD SOMETHING LIKE THIS. USED TO POWER THE FORGERY WORKS. SAMAKOV WAS WELL KNOWN FOR ITS SPECIAL METAL FOR SHARP ITEMS.

ALSO IN GERMANY, THE VALLEY OF THE WUPPER. WHICH IS WUPPERTAL. HERE IN THE VALLEY IS A 50 MILE TRAIN TRACK. WITH THE TRAIN RAIL...........A B O V E .............THE TRAIN.......................MADE EARLIER THAN 1900. AND IN FULL OPERATION IN 1900. AND STILL TODAY.

Very interesting explortion. I used to do this sort of thing with my Dad. He's gone now and my legs are not what they used to be so thanks for this video.

these are awesome sets of ruins, dude. Over here in NJ, I’ve been checking about ruins of the Morris canal’s inclined planes, which were powered by a scotch water reaction turbine instead of steam. they basically operated on the same principle, except instead of train cars they hauled canal boats from a lower section of canal, uphill to the upper section of canal

Do you have any old cotton or textile mills in your area? I worked at a cotton mill from 1998 til it closed in 2003. Would love to see some others in the country!

Maybe the the coal bins were used to house coal for the stationary engines that ran the incline? Not sure why you'd haul coal up an incline to drop it into a bin that then would load another car. It looks like the engines were housed in the large building to the left in the photo and the bins look like maybe they are actually along the wall of that building with the cars dumping just to the right of the wall and the openings inside the building on the back wall.

Love your work. Thanks

"It's pretty dark in here", flashlight please!

What a cool place. I'll never understand why people feel the need to destroy historical sites

there is alot of imformation on the gravity railroad in { Delaware & Hudson{ by Jim Shaughessy A railroad book. from Olyphant to Honesdale and from pittston to Hawley

If you're ever back in Pennsylvania, and want to explore a whole mess of history outside Gallitzen, where multiple means of transportation through the Allegheny mountains occurred throughout the last couple hundred years. There's tons of evidence that still remains, and I haven't even explored it all yet.
Just give me a shout if interested.

Watch channel randomly but more often now, you go so many places I'd love to see, but not having health anymore to do so have Copd,watching you brings new life too me

Cool find. I imagine there’s a few places like this in Pennsylvania.

I love history.The stories those rocks and foundations could tell if they could talk.

Any idea who owns the property?

At mark 6:27 those shoots were to load trucks that would back up next to the wooden wall.

At mark 11:32 those are mineral deposits, they are ice deposits. Remember the time of this video, in winter.

That boxcar with the doors on the end was an old automobile caring boxcar. They would stand the car up inside them. That is a rare find for sure.

Impressive to see what mother nature has hide and people have forgotten. Very impressive

Those Train cars was for trash that's where the trash or was dumped in and let out through the side

Makes no sense to transport coal up a mountain just to dump it back out.

Cant stand ghetto graffiti. People that do that should be deported.

Those boxcars are not from 1932 or earlier. They seem rather large I would guess early 60's maybe late 50's. Amazing sight though!

I bet in the summer it looks totally different

Keep someone with you... you never know what you bump into... keep a pistol on your person..

I’m always amazed at the amount of background info you always share about these places you visit! Thank you!

I don't know if I can keep watching this channel - seeing all these beautiful and interesting places so vandalized is just so sad.

Its amazing how humanity destroyers its history, but then again look at CRT .

Thanks 😊 great technology for the time ,there are two inclines in operation in Pittsburgh with a view of the whole city and surroundings they are not used for industry now like this place your showing us .but as a look out ,view of Mt whashington Pittsburgh pa. If you never seen it's view , I'm telling a story ,my grandmother visited us in the past we though she would enjoy the amazing view ,and she asked is this the grand cannon ,(astonished by it's emmenceness.)I never heard about the massive industrial outfit in your great documentary ,thanks again for a great video of the past. Mahoney is named this for some reason ,Pittsburgh's is named after the river Monongahela incline ,it's the rivers name at it's base ,the ones in Pittsburgh were freight operating and also horses with carriage to get up to hill to that in now a developed place thanks to early freight use. You are showing old coal storage ,I'm amazed 👍 it's not needed now there is no need to burn coal ,with natural gas and electric ,karosine ,these are not relivant but for excellent exploriing ,there were 33inclines in Pittsburgh,now two ,a leader in steel production at one time looking up the past of coal burning you will see how bad the air was polluted with coal burning .

Those ruts also show the width of those wagons and how little they would hold. I loved this video!

we gave up on engineering anything so long ago, its hard to believe Americans made this stuff.

How do you find these places that are safe to go to???? This looks so fun

If I was a kid & we knew about a place like that that we could get 2 u couldn't keep us out of playing in it. I was about 8 me & 2 of my sisters & some neighborhood kids found a pond with a huge drain pipe so we went in & followed it till we found rebar steps we claimed up waited till a few cars passed then 3 of us pushed off a man hole cover & came up 2 blocks from our house. Summer time was great 4 kids in the 70s out doors was our play pen. We would come home dirty hungry eat lunch then go back out side & play.

Too far gone to try to do anything with

90 years from now people are going to find the buildings of today in ruines and laugh at the cheap material used and the vanilla design.

Thank you for taking us on your journey's

Does this guy ever go anywhere that isn't cold lol!

Very interesting, I have never seen a facility like this before. Take care of yourself some of these places can be dangerous!
(I don't think that the coal mines and steam engines are coming back.; so there is no incentive to preserve this site)

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Amazing those cars have been sitting there for all the years!

awesome vid moflo er

Wow! I've been living and exploring this part of PA for 15 years, but I never realized what all was involved, here. Trying to stabilize and "save" this artifact for posterity would be impossible, due to cost, safety, etc. Much better they spend tax dollars on free drugs for the illegals.