Category: Pennsylvania
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TOUR-ED MINE (TARENTUM, PENNSYLVANIA)
“Experience what it was like to be a coal miner in the 1850″s and today. Your guides are experienced coal miners, who will treat you to an amazing, educational tour 160 feet below the Earth”s surface.” Click Here for More Information on the Tour-Ed Mine [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”40.617353,-79.760552″ zoom=”6″ zoomType=”Large” zoomNew=”1″ mapType=”Hybrid”|showMaptype=”1″|overview=”1″ description=”Tour-Ed Mine…
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PIONEER TUNNEL COAL MINE AND STEAM TRAIN (ASHLAND, PENNSYLVANIA)
“Pioneer Tunnel is a horizontal drift mine. Its level tunnel runs 1800 feet straight into the side of the Mahanoy Mountain. You make the trip in comfort, riding in open mine cars pulled by a battery-operated mine motor.” Click Here for More Information on the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdhA8fXEAUI[/embedyt] [flexiblemap width=”100%”…
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NO. 9 COAL MINE AND MUSEUM (LANSFORD, PENNSYLVANIA)
“Opened in 1855, No. 9 Coal Mine, located in Lansford, Pennsylvania is the world”s oldest continuously operated anthracite coal mine!Closed in 1972, the mine was re-opened as a heritage tourism attraction in 2002.Today visitors ride safely by train 1600 feet into the mountainside, to see and experience first hand what it was like for our…
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LACKAWANNA COAL MINE TOUR (SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA)
“Descend slowly into the earth in a mine car as youenter the old Slope #190. Watch the sky slowly disappear. Soon you”ve reached “the foot.” Then explore 300 feet beneath the earth through an anthracite coal mine originally opened in 1860. Accompany a miner in the winding underground gangways and rock tunnel past three different…