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Anthracite Street

11/25/2012 by shaunoboyle

Categories: architecture, landscape, mining, PA

Photographs from a 2006 visit to Centralia, PA, where an underground coal fire has been burning beneath the town for over 50 years. Most of the residents evacuated the town in the 1980′s because of poisonous gases and sink holes from the fire.

Categories: landscape, mining, PA

Huber Breaker

06/26/2012 by shaunoboyle

Photographs from a 2008 visit to the Huber Breaker in Ashley PA.

Categories: architecture, mining, PA, ruins

Landscape – Old Strip Mine with New Housing

06/19/2011 by shaunoboyle

Categories: landscape, mining

Tahawus Mine

06/09/2010 by shaunoboyle

These are some photographs from one of my favorite projects – the Tahawus Mine in the High Peaks regions of New York’s Adirondack mountains. The High Peaks are also one of my favorite places for hiking and camping, which I did for years before discovering the Tahawus mine ruins. The mine ruins were located on [...]

Categories: architecture, industrial, landscape, mills, mining, rail, ruins • Tags: tahawus ruins

Tahawus railway car scale building

02/25/2009 by shaunoboyle

This photographs is from a 2004 visit to Tahawus, a mining site, and also the name of the town that used to stand on this site in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. I\’ve updated my photo essay of Tahawus, some of the photographs have not been posted previously. <a href=\”../mine/index.htm\”>Tahawus Photographs</a>

Categories: industrial, mills, mining, rail, ruins, Uncategorized