Some great photos of the Crucible Ferry Nekoda!

Sent to us by Facebook follower Shaundra Bissett, these amazing old photos of the Crucible ferry " Nekoda" give a rare glimpse of the ferry in action. Many people have fond memories of the ferry and their family members who relied on it every day! Shaundra writes:

  "I came across your blog and videos the other day.  The crucible ferry was always an interest to me.  I am 47 and as a young girl my dad would take my brother and I down to the ferry and we would play.  This was around 1982 when it was lateral washed on shore.  I can remember it was tethered by huge thick cables.  Anyway I can remember my grandmother telling me my grandfather worked on the ferry, I don't know what year but I was able to find the two pictures I have.  They both have pictures of them with cars on them.  One has a picture of my grandfather standing on the ferry.  The young boy sitting on the waters edge is my uncle so I am guessing these pictures are around the 1950's.  I was so excited to see your blogs about the ferry.  I remember going down to the river after each of the major events to check on it.  Until it was gone."

And here is the current location from the above pictures.

Thank you, Shaundra! If anyone else has any more great old photos, please let us know! We'd love to feature them!

Check out THIS LINK for some additional pictures of the ferry in action, and sitting underwater.   We have tons of ferry related posts here, so don't forget to use the search box and type in ferry.

Hartley Shaft - Part of the Robena Mine, Carmichaels, PA.

The remains of the Hartley Shaft of Robena Mine are located right off the side of Ceylon Road. The groundclearing for this shaft begain around 1943 and all buildings were completed around 1948/1949. The offices and bath house were located on the left. Attached to the bath house by a shed-type roof was waiting arean and enclosed elevated walkway that led to the elevator. The two buildings to the right housed 2 MG sets (in the left side) and the other housed the switch gear for incoming AC power.

The building on the right, now.

Inside the bath house

Grafitti in the bath house

Grafitti in the bath house

Where the fan funneled air

What's left of where the elevator was

How the air rounded the bend from the fan

The Bath House

Collapsed elevator on left

Elevator remains (center), w/ the ramp leading to it on the left

A local inhabitant

Before...Elevator from above pictures standing tall and new (thanks to Lonnie Miller's Robena book for the photo)

And now.

Pollocks Mill Bridge, Jefferson, PA, Old Iron Bridge in Stringtown, PA and the Pump Station Road Bridge, Near Clarksville, PA

This weekend was a weekend of iron bridge explorations around our Greene County, PA area.
We hope you enjoy the pictures.

Decaying iron bridge remains near Stringtown and over Muddy Creek.

 

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Pollocks Mill Bridge, located on Pollocks Mill Road, was constructed in 1878 by the Massillon Iron Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio.

After visiting the two bridges above, I ran down to the Pump Station Road bridge, outside Clarksville, PA.   This bridge was built in 1902.  The bridge has been shut down for a few years now, and is decaying away, buried in the woods. At one time, there was a mill above the bridge and after that, mining activity.  The following information is provided from Historic Bridges.org...

"This bridge is a noteworthy structure as a rare surviving example of a pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss bridge, and in addition as a larger example of a bridge built by noteworthy regional bridge builder Nelson and Buchanan (former agents for Pittsburgh Bridge Company).

The bridge's bottom chord has an unusual attachment to the hip vertical.

This bridge has recently been closed to traffic and will likely be demolished. The bridge is in extremely poor condition with extensive pack rust and section loss. The bottom chord connections, typical trouble spots on any truss, have a very large amount of pack rust."