So, It's been a slow month for number of reasons here at SWPARE blog, so I thought I'd rely on some old pictures to "fill out" the blog until we start up again in the next two weeks or so. This filler is courtesy of a rainy day 5 weeks ago when I decided to head down to the Bobtown / Shannopin mine site. This site operated until 1993 or so, so you'd think it'd be in better shape, but alas, no. Submitted in no real order are the remains of this mine now.
As always, click on the pictures to enlarge!
As always, click on the pictures to enlarge!
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| Bathhouse when in operation. |
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| ....and now. |
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| C'mon, Danielle, you know you wanna crawl in, but look out for that Black Damp! |
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| Bath house |
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| Soap Dish in bath house |
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| Showers in bath house |
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| An old portal |
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| Steps that led to the patch |
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| March 2011. Boiler house, roof intact. |
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| Sept 2011. Same boiler house as above. Roof collapsed. |
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| From the boiler house. This is all destroyed now in the roof collapse. |
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| From the boiler house. This is all destroyed now in the roof collapse. |
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| From the boiler house. This is all destroyed now in the roof collapse. |
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| From the boiler house. This is all destroyed now in the roof collapse. |
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| The electric rail road bridge |
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| Hey....arent you in my yard now......? |
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| ....yea....I thought. Preserved now. |
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| Electric train shed |
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| Electric train shed |
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| "Huge Wang"..... lol |
