We met these locals near Pottsville PA while exploring the area looking for landscapes to photograph. They had good advice on how we could build our own strip mine buggy, the reasonable cost of doing this, and how to modify the engine to get the most horsepower out of it.
10/31/2007
Out for a ride in a strip mine buggy
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10/30/2007
Coal Castle
The coal region in Pennsylvania is a fascinating area, it is a place apart, to an outside observer like myself it seems a place removed from today, somehow still a part of the era of big steel. The landscape is scarred with the marks of strip mining of anthracite used as raw material for making steel. A ruined coal breaker and miles of abandoned rail tracks can be seen amongst the weeds and culm piles. Towns, seemingly frozen in time, somewhere about 1950, are over shadowed by these piles, and the rivers run dark from the erosion of these dominant landscape features.
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12/31/2006
04/18/2006
Tailings Pile
Tailings pile from the <a href=\”http://www.oboylephoto.com/mine\”>Tahawus Mine Series.
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03/07/2006
Rail Car Tipper, Anthracite Breaker
This huge roller was used to tip an entire rail car full of freshly mined coal. The coal then went into the coal breaker via conveyors for processing.
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