I use to live in Mocanaqua for a few years and it is absolutely beautiful there. It is a quiet and peaceful place full of nature. The last time I hiked there, you could pick from multiple different trails as some were shorter and some were longer. The last time I was there, we came across an old camping area that had an extinguished campfire, clothes, etc. There are many things to find throughout Mocanaqua and its surrounding town of Shickshinny, you just have to know where to look or know the area, caves, natural springs, old mines. It's great if your seeking adventure..I'm glad that you did this one!
JP, THANKS! Love you guys, love your vids. Please keep them coming. My pc is a window on the world, thanks to pioneers, like you, I can share in your travels/explorations. Please stay safe (safety first). Thanks for keeping it clean and informative.
Did I enjoy it .... yes I really did. So interesting especially the huge bolder that they blasted, seeing where they had drilled to insert the dynamite. A true part of history. I nearly had heart failure tho when you took off into that cave. OMG, Im sure I held my breath until you were safely back out. Don't do that to me lol. Excellent video JP. 👍👍👍🌹💟💟🌹
Enjoyed the hike through the mountain side ...pretty scenery. I thought you were "not going to go far " . You are braver than most . Some one could not pay me enough to go into that mine . Sure was glad to see you climbing back out. ...You have a gift of finding joy in your life. Thank you for sharing it with the rest of us.
I find you videos are very easy to view. Your camera work is smooth and is edited very well. Please keep them coming a job well done. Thanks so very much. Rob Australia
Good ole' Balls of Steel, JP!! Mesmerizing explore-WOW!! So glad U guys found it!! Yet another incident where you made me nervous for U n glad it wasn't live!! LOL TY JP (you're becoming a super hero to 2 of my sons - thanks for that also :-))
Beautiful area - interesting remnants of buildings - there had been a coal mine there but due to an explosion 💥 it was abandoned. Thanks for sharing another awesome video 😁👍💕💕
Imagine working in that all day! Its a bootleggers paradise!! At 4:10 that must be a hoist house. Thw second foundation might be the washhouse and the third up the mountain ciuld be the fan house?? I have to visit this place sometime...really cool lokie trail!! Great footage JP!!
@@JPVideos81 good time now...no leaves (or snow). How are you doing? Hope you are feeling better for the hollidays. Getting the explore bug. I gotta get out on an adventure with you again.
Hey JP! This was quite an explore! Thank you for bringing us along!!! Just please be extra careful when you go into mines. My claustrophobia is really bad in small tight places. Lol
Ayyyyyayayayay!!! I would say in my DOMINICAN DIALECT!! I wish I could give you A HUNDRED MILLIONS LIKES HERE!!! DIOS MÍO!!! Lol you are LOCO JP!!! WHAT A GREATTTT JOB!!! Thanks for doing these Vito tell you it is 3:07am and I have to get up at six am to send my son to school! And I CANNOT STOP WATCHING YOUR AMAZING VIDEOS!!! 😂😍❤️🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 #yourDominicannewfan 😂
JPVideos Lolz LOCO ! Means Crazy! But in a good way of saying it! DIOS MÍO’ is MY GOD!! I Saigon are loco! Because I think you are putting yourself in danger!!! I said like this! ATE YOU CRAZY?? Like when you do or say something!! CRAZY!!lol 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴❤️😍
Another great find, I know I tell you this all the time, probably due to my profession, be careful. Wandering how far up the mountain the main mine was. The structure up above looks like the same layout as the one you found in glenburn that had the pulleys and cables, they probably filled it in after the explosion, but it’s probably close. A shame that didn’t mark the site to memorialize the miners who perished. Again another great video jay. I don’t know if I compared the correct video. I am Talking about the mine structure you found when you went with Bernie.
Very pretty area, interesting building remains, but dang!! That mine!!! I love bats, like snakes and heights, BUT spiders, cave crickets and low-ceilinged mines freak the poo poo right out of me!! Thanks for another thriller :-)
WOW Jay, what a find and what a lot of hard climbing! Dangerous in that mine shaft! You'll do anything to get a great video!! Did you ever find out what that stuff is that you could just pick off. Put me in mind of paint peeling off a wall. Great video! Thanks for taking us with you!
Great Video, My grand father grew up across the street from the Breaker of the West End Coal Co. His father worked for the WECC The last year of operation was 1956. The old breaker burned on Sunday morning, March 12, 1893. The flames had scarcely licked up the last piece of timber when plans were being made for a larger and more modern breaker. The debris was cleared away and by August the new breaker new was up and in operation. J.C. Tyrrell was the builder and he rushed the work to an early completion. While not the largest, the new breaker had a daily capacity of 1,000 to 1,200 tons, and was filled with all the latest machinery for the preparation of coal. The boiler plant was moved and the hoisting engines were moved and set up at the mouth of the new slope. The new automatic dump at the head of the breaker required an entire change and clearing away of all timbering not burned by the fire which destroyed the breaker. Looking at Photos from Penn Pilot and web sites. I suspect the buildings you were in are part of the boiler plant and hoisting engines or the automatic dump. This mine operation had its own Locomotives and several coal cars or gondolas that remained on the mine operation at all times. The West End Coal Company was one of the most state of the art operations in the region and took care of there employs. they built several of the homes in Mocanaqua. Eventually selling them to the miners. If you ever were to go back in that mine I would love to have a small piece of coal from the West End Coal Mine East Slope. To put next to the photo of my Great Grand Father. Here is a link to photos of the West End Coal Company www.northernfield.info/photoGallery.php?per=15&pg=6
EARTH ANGEL 😇. 😳 YOU sure took a chance entering this old mine!🤔 OMG😱! The age and condition of this old mine ,along with the 🌏 earth’s shifting surely has loosened many a rock and a concealed hole could suck you down and DEVOUR YOU!!!!!!!🙀☠️. I don’t 🤔 think that you’d get much cell phone 📱 coverage 👇🏼 down there either!🤭. Sure would be nice to see some old photos of that area when it was up and running!👍
B. Fagan thank you for your kind response! Handicapped. I am a very expressive person you need not read this if you do not want to! Thank you again Earth Angel
West End Coal Company, Breaker was a wooden structure on the side of the mountain. There also was another breaker across from the culm piles up further on the mountain. Never saw a picture of it, except for an aerial from the late 30's on Penn Pilot. The breaker on the side of the mountain was gone then, but the other buildings could be made out. Also, across the river on the Shickshinny side, on the side of rt 11 opposite the bridge there are foundations from possibly a breaker on the side of the mountain. There were some gears and other metal pieces there a few years ago.
That's the Stackhouse colliery, still there. VERY steep climb, There's a filled mine entrance up there with drainage pipes coming out of it; you can't get it in at all, it's totally sealed. Behind it, up on the mountain are at least four other mines that have all been dynamited shut. Again, too much publicity from people got them closed.
WOW!! This reminds me of a campground I frequented as a young girl, with my family in Ohio!! The camp was called Devil's Den. It had three camping levels. I used to explore the caves by myself! We were told Indians used to hide in those caves. PA is a beautiful state! As always, great footage JP & Mike. Really diggin' your explorations!! Got me itching to explore here in Maryland! 😄👍❤
dude, u r nuts! but glad u r the explorer & do what others cant do!! i have physical limitations. i feel like im right there with u!! BRAVO!!!! thank u 4 sharing!!!!
Maybe you and JP could meet up with deepdishpies from RUclips. She's done an exploration of that area, as well as Centralia and other places I've seen you guys do videos from. ruclips.net/video/rnDZHnJx8VI/видео.html
This land is owned by Earth conservancy or the Kanjorski family. Late 1800s 10 people died from a gas explosion. Many Italian people left Italy escaping the socialism worked here and Glen Lyon mines. This place produced a lot of coal.
Mocanaqua is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Conyngham Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 646 at the 2010 census. Wikipedia
Amazing Mine. Wonder why they didn't mine the coal? Great find, now it is known...its secret hiding place exposed. Thanks for a great adventure, best video I've seen today.
Those mines make me a nervous wreck. I would probably have a panic attack in there. I don't know how you remember which way you went to get yourself out. I think I would get lost in that maze. The mines are COOL though. I;m learning a lot and pretty woods too.
Awesome explore, loved watching and the spelunking was great! Not trying to sound like a parent (cause I’m not that old), WEAR A HARD HAT! Lol. We know it took a lot of time and energy to look around that area, thumbs up! Thanks! Only thing is that I wish you would take a metal detector with you, who knows what you might find around those old structures!
Hey JP How are you Loved the video Say hello to Mike I really love watching you explore and your still handsom As always your Friend Nelly From The Bronx 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😎😎😎
definitely not built on your everyday land. cliffs, hills, deep woods. and wow for old , using old pulley lines as re bar. be cool if there was pictures and documents saying what all this was and did. wow you got more guts than I do. maybe when I was a teenager i would have ventured into that mine. but some great footage on how they did things way back then. the shoring of the walls looks a little AGED. lol.
The boots and jacket creep me out so much
Looked like little kids boots
JPVideos exactly why it creeps me out haha
I use to live in Mocanaqua for a few years and it is absolutely beautiful there. It is a quiet and peaceful place full of nature. The last time I hiked there, you could pick from multiple different trails as some were shorter and some were longer. The last time I was there, we came across an old camping area that had an extinguished campfire, clothes, etc. There are many things to find throughout Mocanaqua and its surrounding town of Shickshinny, you just have to know where to look or know the area, caves, natural springs, old mines. It's great if your seeking adventure..I'm glad that you did this one!
I loved the area. For being my first time and without a map, i was happy with what i found.
Nice find...thanks for sharing
Loved the a ove ground footage! Mine gave me claustrophobic feelings. Honor to those tough guys of old who worked in mines! Thanks JP
A great adventure!!!
So many nooks and crannies in that rock layer. 🤓
JP, THANKS! Love you guys, love your vids. Please keep them coming. My pc is a window on the world, thanks to pioneers, like you, I can share in your travels/explorations. Please stay safe (safety first). Thanks for keeping it clean and informative.
You're welcome
✅❤️👍🏼 beautiful wooded area.
Enjoyed the video looks like a cool place.
Cool video!!! Seeing inside the mine was awesome!!! Thank you JP for going inside!!! I like these kinda videos!!!
Ty 🙂
JP you are most welcome
Did I enjoy it .... yes I really did. So interesting especially the huge bolder that they blasted, seeing where they had drilled to insert the dynamite. A true part of history. I nearly had heart failure tho when you took off into that cave. OMG, Im sure I held my breath until you were safely back out. Don't do that to me lol. Excellent video JP. 👍👍👍🌹💟💟🌹
Lol
great video when you went in the mine!!!!!!! yea baby!!!!!!!!!!!
😁
Enjoyed the hike through the mountain side ...pretty scenery. I thought you were "not going to go far " . You are braver than most . Some one could not pay me enough to go into that mine . Sure was glad to see you climbing back out. ...You have a gift of finding joy in your life. Thank you for sharing it with the rest of us.
It wasnt far to me haha
Barbara - Pigeon Bray I was yelling no, no, no, stop it.
How cool
Would love to show ya
Love your videos.
Ty
I find you videos are very easy to view. Your camera work is smooth and is edited very well. Please keep them coming a job well done. Thanks so very much. Rob Australia
Thanks
Amazing video!!! Glad Mike was with you!!! Maybe alittle too brave there but....you made it back out!!!
Good ole' Balls of Steel, JP!! Mesmerizing explore-WOW!! So glad U guys found it!! Yet another incident where you made me nervous for U n glad it wasn't live!! LOL TY JP (you're becoming a super hero to 2 of my sons - thanks for that also :-))
Ahhh, thanks lily
You are so brave to go crawling into those dark unknown places .............
Really cool video Jay! I LOVE that abandoned mine cave! Keep exploring!
Ty
Beautiful area - interesting remnants of buildings - there had been a coal mine there but due to an explosion 💥 it was abandoned.
Thanks for sharing another awesome video 😁👍💕💕
Thanks for checking it out
Imagine working in that all day! Its a bootleggers paradise!! At 4:10 that must be a hoist house. Thw second foundation might be the washhouse and the third up the mountain ciuld be the fan house?? I have to visit this place sometime...really cool lokie trail!! Great footage JP!!
Lots more to discover there
@@JPVideos81 good time now...no leaves (or snow).
How are you doing? Hope you are feeling better for the hollidays. Getting the explore bug. I gotta get out on an adventure with you again.
@@coalcrackerchris I'll be back to exploring pretty soon.
Hey JP! This was quite an explore! Thank you for bringing us along!!! Just please be extra careful when you go into mines. My claustrophobia is really bad in small tight places. Lol
Haha, you got it lacey
Ayyyyyayayayay!!! I would say in my DOMINICAN DIALECT!! I wish I could give you A HUNDRED MILLIONS LIKES HERE!!! DIOS MÍO!!! Lol you are LOCO JP!!! WHAT A GREATTTT JOB!!! Thanks for doing these Vito tell you it is 3:07am and I have to get up at six am to send my son to school! And I CANNOT STOP WATCHING YOUR AMAZING VIDEOS!!! 😂😍❤️🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 #yourDominicannewfan 😂
Get some sleep lol. Loco? Is that good or bad? I love your comments.
JPVideos Lolz LOCO ! Means Crazy! But in a good way of saying it! DIOS MÍO’ is MY GOD!! I Saigon are loco! Because I think you are putting yourself in danger!!! I said like this! ATE YOU CRAZY?? Like when you do or say something!! CRAZY!!lol 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴❤️😍
Haha, not the first time ive been called crazy. Hope you enjoy my craziness lol.
Another great find, I know I tell you this all the time, probably due to my profession, be careful.
Wandering how far up the mountain the main mine was. The structure up above looks like the same layout as the one you found in glenburn that had the pulleys and cables, they probably filled it in after the explosion, but it’s probably close.
A shame that didn’t mark the site to memorialize the miners who perished.
Again another great video jay. I don’t know if I compared the correct video. I am
Talking about the mine structure you found when you went with Bernie.
Yep, thats the correct location. Glen burn.
Good Video
that was cool going into the mine with you
Ty for watching
Very pretty area, interesting building remains, but dang!! That mine!!! I love bats, like snakes and heights, BUT spiders, cave crickets and low-ceilinged mines freak the poo poo right out of me!! Thanks for another thriller :-)
Im good with everything except heights and snakes lol
I’m glad you got out of that mine safely it looked a bit dangerous 😳😳😳
You crawled into a super old abandoned mine shaft with an unstable roof, with no supplies. You're so lucky you made it back out.
I'm aware of the dangers, but needed to see what was inside.
WOW Jay, what a find and what a lot of hard climbing! Dangerous in that mine shaft! You'll do anything to get a great video!! Did you ever find out what that stuff is that you could just pick off. Put me in mind of paint peeling off a wall. Great video! Thanks for taking us with you!
Thanks Patricia
Omg you are crazy for goin in there
Why?
@@JPVideos81 small places make me uncomfortable and it looks like it's going to collapse
@@haunteddanelle5515 gotta take risks sometimes. You only live once!
@@JPVideos81 I'd rather not be crushed to death
@@JPVideos81 or u. Then I cant watch your videos
Great Video, My grand father grew up across the street from the Breaker of the West End Coal Co. His father worked for the WECC The last year of operation was 1956. The old breaker burned on Sunday morning, March 12, 1893. The flames had scarcely licked up the last piece of timber when plans were being made for a larger and more modern breaker. The debris was cleared away and by August the new breaker new was up and in operation. J.C. Tyrrell was the builder and he rushed the work to an early completion. While not the largest, the new breaker had a daily capacity of 1,000 to 1,200 tons, and was filled with all the latest machinery for the preparation of coal.
The boiler plant was moved and the hoisting engines were moved and set up at the mouth of the new slope. The new automatic dump at the head of the breaker required an entire change and clearing away of all timbering not burned by the fire which destroyed the breaker. Looking at Photos from Penn Pilot and web sites. I suspect the buildings you were in are part of the boiler plant and hoisting engines or the automatic dump. This mine operation had its own Locomotives and several coal cars or gondolas that remained on the mine operation at all times. The West End Coal Company was one of the most state of the art operations in the region and took care of there employs. they built several of the homes in Mocanaqua. Eventually selling them to the miners.
If you ever were to go back in that mine I would love to have a small piece of coal from the West End Coal Mine East Slope. To put next to the photo of my Great Grand Father.
Here is a link to photos of the West End Coal Company www.northernfield.info/photoGallery.php?per=15&pg=6
beautiful scenery but man there's aa lot that can happen in the woods lol
😲😉
Yay! Pennsylvania! Woot.
Good find great creepy cave 🕸🦇🦇 can’t wait for next adventure 👍🏽
Two more abandoned videos coming out this week.
I subscribed the other day. Enjoying the videos!
Thanks Don
My Dad had family in Scranton. A lot of the places you're exploring I remember seeing on my travels.
EARTH ANGEL 😇. 😳 YOU sure took a chance entering this old mine!🤔 OMG😱! The age and condition of this old mine ,along with the 🌏 earth’s shifting surely has loosened many a rock and a concealed hole could suck you down and DEVOUR YOU!!!!!!!🙀☠️. I don’t 🤔 think that you’d get much cell phone 📱 coverage 👇🏼 down there either!🤭. Sure would be nice to see some old photos of that area when it was up and running!👍
Needs more emojis, I could barely understand.
B. Fagan thank you for your kind response! Handicapped. I am a very expressive person you need not read this if you do not want to! Thank you again Earth Angel
West End Coal Company, Breaker was a wooden structure on the side of the mountain. There also was another breaker across from the culm piles up further on the mountain. Never saw a picture of it, except for an aerial from the late 30's on Penn Pilot. The breaker on the side of the mountain was gone then, but the other buildings could be made out. Also, across the river on the Shickshinny side, on the side of rt 11 opposite the bridge there are foundations from possibly a breaker on the side of the mountain. There were some gears and other metal pieces there a few years ago.
I plan on returning to check out the shickshinny side.
I take back part of my previous comment, the wooden west end coal breaker was still there in the 1939 aerial photo.
That's the Stackhouse colliery, still there. VERY steep climb, There's a filled mine entrance up there with drainage pipes coming out of it; you can't get it in at all, it's totally sealed. Behind it, up on the mountain are at least four other mines that have all been dynamited shut. Again, too much publicity from people got them closed.
WOW!! This reminds me of a campground I frequented as a young girl, with my family in Ohio!! The camp was called Devil's Den. It had three camping levels. I used to explore the caves by myself! We were told Indians used to hide in those caves. PA is a beautiful state!
As always, great footage JP & Mike. Really diggin' your explorations!! Got me itching to explore here in Maryland! 😄👍❤
Get out and explore!
dude, u r nuts! but glad u r the explorer & do what others cant do!! i have physical limitations. i feel like im right there with u!! BRAVO!!!! thank u 4 sharing!!!!
I may be a little nuts, but it makes for good entertainment.
I'm so glad you were able to find something peak your interest
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome mine video...y'all stay safe
Thanks
I read somewhere that this mine was filled in, the opening might have occurred naturally, since then. That info could be wrong, however.
It didnt look like it was ever filled in to me. There are other mines on this mountain and I'm sure some or most are filled in.
I wasn't sure, it's just one thing out of many sites on the mine.
I used to live in Mocanaqua when I was a kid. My Aunt Krista still lives there. I wish I would have known about this I would have not been so bord
Supposedly there are more areas there to explore so I'll be returning in the fall.
there has to be an entrance somewhere around those buildings!!!!!!!!!
Your crawling down what seems to be is an air shaft down to main part very brave had my heart pumpkin wow
Wow, great find! Thanks for sharing!
Just found this. Looks like poison ivy on those rocks.
I will have to go there sometime...
Its right up your alley. Was told there are additional mine workings here.
Maybe you and JP could meet up with deepdishpies from RUclips. She's done an exploration of that area, as well as Centralia and other places I've seen you guys do videos from.
ruclips.net/video/rnDZHnJx8VI/видео.html
I was enjoying the nature but started to worry when you went into the mine it didn’t look to safe.
Made it out in one piece.
interesting ... why only 3 ft high? wonder if that water continued on? and the buildings nearby, are they related?
It was all part of a large operation.
I enjoyed your video , thankyou, was very interesting
I give you credit because there is no way that I would be going in there
Thanks valerie
This land is owned by Earth conservancy or the Kanjorski family. Late 1800s 10 people died from a gas explosion. Many Italian people left Italy escaping the socialism worked here and Glen Lyon mines. This place produced a lot of coal.
Beautiful walking trails and even better weather.
I was there several times but then they closed it off, did you enter from way down by the river or were you able to park up near council cup road?
As seen in the video, i parked at the parking area by the sewer authority and walked the trail.
Mocanaqua is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Conyngham Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 646 at the 2010 census. Wikipedia
Amazing Mine. Wonder why they didn't mine the coal? Great find, now it is known...its secret hiding place exposed. Thanks for a great adventure, best video I've seen today.
I just learned that 4 men died in a mine explosion here.
Bummer. Oh my, maybe it was in the one you found. hmmm. Interesting. I want to watch it again!
You did good dangerous job, pleased you came out ok, I was on edge!😱
Crazy going into that mine, I was yelling..dont go in there!! 🤣🤣🤣
But you watched it didnt you? Haha.
It's really pretty there, reminds me a little of southern Illinois
Those mines make me a nervous wreck. I would probably have a panic attack in there. I don't know how you remember which way you went to get yourself out. I think I would get lost in that maze. The mines are COOL though. I;m learning a lot and pretty woods too.
I pay close attention to my surroundings.
You SURE DO.
I can't believe you went in there. Oh my some scary stuff.
I've been up there dozens of times. There's open shafts if you know where to look.
Never knew about this place, would love to find more mines.
No graffiti!!!! Great find.
This was an iron mine and had an explosion and someone died.
Meet area and good video but why do ppl get sketched out on places that are totally on mapped out areas I mean it’s all been inspected right
You're crazy. But I understand. If I was still a child I would go in there. lol
Im a child at heart
JPVideos lol
we need to meet. I'm moving back to Arizona next month.
I said before that I'm game for meeting.
Finding the time is the problem. lol
Thanks for letting me tag along on this adventure amazing video.
Awesome explore, loved watching and the spelunking was great! Not trying to sound like a parent (cause I’m not that old), WEAR A HARD HAT! Lol. We know it took a lot of time and energy to look around that area, thumbs up! Thanks! Only thing is that I wish you would take a metal detector with you, who knows what you might find around those old structures!
May invest in one in the future.
Man JP I wish I was up there with u that was so cool in that cave 😁✌️✌️✌️✌️
U
Wow what a cool place!!! Glad you are o.k. that looked scary!!!!!!!
GREAT CHANNEL!!
👍😀👍
THAT LOOKED SO FUN!
STAY COOL IS HOT!
Awesome video but I was concerned about your safety. If any of those timbers ever came down you would never get out be careful!
Thanks for caring. My curiosity gets the best of me.
I thought it said “mime”. That would be a strange video.
Hey JP How are you Loved the video Say hello to Mike I really love watching you explore and your still handsom As always your Friend Nelly From The Bronx 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😎😎😎
Thanks Nelly, same to you
You are very daring to enter an old mine such as this. It looks extremely dangerous. Be careful, please!
definitely not built on your everyday land. cliffs, hills, deep woods. and wow for old , using old pulley lines as re bar. be cool if there was pictures and documents saying what all this was and did.
wow you got more guts than I do. maybe when I was a teenager i would have ventured into that mine. but some great footage on how they did things way back then. the shoring of the walls looks a little AGED. lol.
A few people shared some info, check the other comments. 4 men apparently died in a mine explosion here.