Abandoned Lykens Power Plant Remains - W/ The Wandering Woodsman
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 2019
- In this video i head down south to join The Wandering Woodsman on some adventures. This is the first of three locations that we filmed this day. For the first video, we check out some remains of an old Power Plant that was used to power a colliery and nearby town. Sadly, not much is left of it, but its still a piece of history. We also check out a portal to a flooded coal mine tunnel. Enjoy
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Thanks Jay for giving us a tour, so much is now lost to history that it's refreshing to see someone try and save the remains of this once sprawling power plant. Thank you. x
I was happy to hear that they are saving whats left of it.
Thanks for sharing. I’m always interested in the history of that area. I’m originally from the area but growing up never thought much of it until recently. I did explode to the Williamstown tunnel last week when I was back home from NC.
What a wonderful ending to a crazy day. Thanks for showing us this cool place! Extra thanks to the owner for allowing you to share this place with us and for preserving this neat bit of history!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching
JP thank you for sharing.... it ALWAYS makes me smile whenever you share abandoned places and there's ALWAYS a toy or Christmas stuff left behind.... bloody crazy people!!!!
Haha. Thanks
Pretty cool video JP . Nice to see a bit of history being documented for people to see for years to come. Thanks again for all you do to bring these places to us. Your awesome.. stay safe on your trip and enjoy yourself.
You're awesome as well Alice!
So sad the former owner started demolishing the buildings. At least the new one isnt!!!! Love the before pictures and the ones you took.
Another great video J 😁👍
Thank you for the information and the picture of what the power plant looked like when it was in operation - it was huge ! I am glad the new owners of the property are keeping those large structures as part of history 👍
Thanks for sharing this awesome - loved the still fotos 😀💕
Thanks
way cool being able to chat with owner
Another great video. Love the history to learn from these videos of places I've never seen and some that I have. Great job guys as always.
Fantastic find !
Pretty interesting! Lots of history, glad the owner is going to clean it up.
Nice to see you two together again. Interesting video.. looking forward to more.
Fascinating! Great video! Well presented! Thanks for all your hard work getting these videos out 👍
Thank you debbie
Nice video....thanks JP.
Interesting! I'm glad the owner is going to restore the place. Glad there's at least one building that's intact.
Yeah, we need more people like him.
Wow never heard of the place. Love how they brought power to the community with used coal. Very neat. Thanks for taking us with you.👍👍❤
Thank you for sharing J. P. I really enjoyed your videos .♥️
Thank you rosemary
Another great find, thanks for the tour guys, stay safe
Thanks tanya!
thank you for another interesting video, be safe and glad you have a buddy with you
Thank you JP and Cliff for this great video. I learn a lot from you. That's why I love watching your video. Also thanks to the owner for keeping a piece of history alive.🖒👏
Thanks Paula. I learn alot too by exploring these places.
JPVideos Those before and after photos were great. Really big place. You can kinda get a feel of how the place was laid out and how massive it must have been. Looking down from the 3rd level was cool and where the stacks were and where they made briquettes. By the way, I’ll take the Jeep. Thanks for bringing me along!!!
@@priscillarobinson7740 its sitting there waiting for you lol.
Great explore and thanks for sharing some history. To bad the last owner ripped the buildings down , maybe so he would not be liable if someone got hurt, but still a shame! Thanks for sharing and as always gave thumbs up!
Either that or for scrapping materials out of it.
JPVideos good point!
Very cool!!! Thanks!!!
Thanks for making your videos really enjoy them.
You're welcome nadine
Great explore and history lesson.
You made my night. I needed something good to watch!
Aww I'm glad
Great video, your videos are always interesting
Not as much to see here, but still interesting in my eye.
Tnx for the program. Victoria from Sweden 😃
Very interesting video, neat to see how things use to be! Really liked when you showed pic of how it looked b4, really impressive! Thx for sharing
You're welcome
Thank you for the video! I really enjoyed it... great history of the coal mining. I love how you give the history of each place you visit!
History plays an important part and goes hand in hand with the footage.
Great video. Family always enjoys your and the wander woodsman's videos.
Thanks sean
this was really interesting ! i am such a history nerd , so these type of places are great. my favorite part was the old building with the date . thank you so much for taking us along. keep safe & God bless :) :) nancy in ga
Hi JP thanks for sharing this video with us...Loved watching this a good find well done :0)
Thanks so much!
The first part looks like a viaduct bridge to me well built they have stood the pasting of time very interesting video and the owner is preserving history which is good thank you for sharing xx
You're welcome
Mind blown at the sheer enormity of how you would go about the demolition of a building that size! You have to wonder if the previous owner had personal reasons for attempting to destroy and remove it.
Definitely makes you wonder.
Pretty neat! And I have to say back in the day people used everything and anything to their resource.
I have to say since I started watching your videos it now makes me wonder about all the abandoned, run down, and older stores, buildings, and homes we have around my neck of the woods.
Where's your neck of the woods?
Southeastern Oklahoma...... oklahoma its self has a bunch of places but I noticed my town and the town 15 mins away from me has alot of places.
Nice find! 😊
Another well done video of a Beautiful place , Thank you also for sharing the back History of this Power Plant, your videos along with the knowledge is getting better each and every video.. I always look forward to watching your videos... Keep up the good work.. God Bless..
No phones this time.
Your right no phone's this time😜 Just Power Boxes..
Nice one JP,I been binging on WW videos all day today hehe,he finds some pretty cool spots!!!
He sure does
Thanks for another great video! Too bad the previous owner destroyed the buildings. Thank you for sharing the history of the plant.
You're welcome brittany. I agree, it is sad.
Love to hear the history of this place.. Thank-you for the info and the tour!!! Keep it up!!!
Ty
Love this video! Your in my neck of the woods this time. The coal mining industry was my families legacy. Ty for sharing!!!!
You're welcome erica
Thank you for the history lesson...
You're welcome
I enjoyed this of woodsman video.
I've been super busy, and haven't been watching for a few days. I'll have to catch up. Funny how you do more exploring in a few days than I can watch in a few days, lol. Those stone angled doorways will never last as long as a true Roman arch, but they look cool. Smart to use the garbage to make power. Nature sure showed how she can take back over huh??? Sort of surprising to see a cement structure collapse in under 100 years. I guess that speaks a lot for real stone buildings. "History gets bulldozed" LOL. It's the way of the times. My 1997 Dodge van just became obsolete, because they started crushing anything older than 2002. Not even the factory can help. Sucks, because I have less than 85,000 miles on it. New is plowing over old for sure these days. Back to the video, I can practically feel how hot it was in the buildings. Thanks to Cliff for sharing. Bravo to you for being able to say you were wrong, and correct it. You could just edit out the wrong, but you don't. That's rare these days. Sulfur is nasty, glad you don't have smellivision, lol. There's not a lot of stuff to see here. No nice woodworking, or extravagance, lol. Saw a couple of residuals, and sensed some heat, but it definitely wasn't as awesome as the other places you explore. At least you get out there and do it. I still haven't even done that. Cheers. Have a great weekend.
I know this isnt everyones cup of tea as far as videos go, but its still intriguing to me. At the very least, its helping document more of out past.
Very interesting
Reminds me of the power plant in Niagara Falls
A B C would most likely be referring to phases of a 3 phase electric system. @10:15 those clips were most likely insulators for some heavy duty wiring. The big rectangular part with the squared off openings may have been the base for a turbine. I don't know if you ever saw the Colebrook (Hudson Coal) powerplant that was in Carbondale by where the D&H roundhouse was. I remember going into the big high part and there was the turbine sitting there on a 15 to 20 foot high concrete pedestal. There are some pictures that come up if you search for it.
Ah, ok. Thank you
I'm new here but loving the videos you've done. The first one is really strange. Wowzer that would scare me to find strangers in my photos. Gonna finish watch just had to say hi. Ms. Michal
Strangers in the photos?
Great video as usual. Very interesting set of structures. Being built 100 years ago with equipment of that era, surely stands the test of time. Imagine what explorers 100 years from now will find...
The places built today wont last like these older structures. Nowadays places are built in a hurry with cheap materials.
This is true. Fast and cheap
Great video 👍👏
Thank you
Thank you owner.
great location the coal age.
Very interesting! Lol 😂 smell-o-vision!!!
👃
I'm so happy they are going to keep the foundations of the plant. Like I said before I hate when some developers just bulldoze down some piece of history for some crapy build condos for a profit.
well not much left.. and i would think iron ore, is when the water is turning things orange. or a lot of equipment left down there that is now nothing but rust stains,
Mine drainage is metal-rich water formed from chemical reaction between water and rocks containing
sulfur-bearing minerals. Which is why there was a strong sulfur smell emulating from the mine.
As I was saying I'm glad I don't have smell-a-vision on my phone. LOL. Thank you for your view on the things that was.
Lol
With so much underbrush it is good you explored in the Wintertime...also looks like it could be " snakey " in the Spring...The plant had to have been a huge outfit...the foundation is still amazing ....so glad the new owner is preserving what's left of its 105 yrs. history . Too often people just carelessly destroy the past...Thank you so much for sharing this abandoned site with us....learned a lot as always... Sulfur water ? ugh...nope : ( lol
I probably wouldnt come in the summer. Too many places for snakes to hide. That water was stinky.
I think it's awesome that so long ago they thought to put dates on thing they built, here Florida we have to go to the court house to find out dates on buildings and such.
It doesnt always happen like that, but this time we lucked out to see the dates.
Very Interesting never knew that Power Plant existed this is not to far from where I live in Harrisburg, in the 70's I used to come up this way to Tower City Not far down the road from Lykens.
Learn something new every day.
Nice find & explore, entertaining 👍🏻 #urbex
That is some major concrete work for the early 1900's! Have to wonder if they had a concrete plant onsite?
I'd imagine so.
Wow that's a lot of coal by products
That was an interesting place. It seems stones and concrete last a long time. They always seem to be around when everything else is gone. I really like historical places. It's sad not everyone values old places with history. I wish more people would preserve historical places.
I agree with you.
@@JPVideos81 Thanks. You do great videos.
Great video. Thanks for sharing!! I say, thank goodness there's no such thing as smell-a-vision. Rotten eggs! Yuck 🤢 lol. It's amazing the mine has that much water. It was really gushing and it still smelled so bad??
Yep. The water coming out of it is tainted with sulfuric acid from inside the mine.
That Stihl 044 magnum or whatever it was looked pretty intact,those saws aint cheap,probably blown up scrap just like the jeep:)
Awesome video, I want that chainsaw engine jeep 😂
Haha
*GUYS BE CAREFUL OUT THERE*
Always my friend.
@@JPVideos81 good enough man 😎👍
Nice explore!
And, ugh, that poor Jeep :'-(
I'm not a jeep fan, so it didnt bother me much lol
Cool place.
No phone ringing this time lol
Lol, I thought I heard one ringing in the distance 😂
Sulfa water in the mine very common in the ground in Pennsylvania and Kentucky stinks and stains. Gross!
The area you are showing in the video that you stated was the briquette plant is incorrect that was located down on the lower area on the road that leads west of Wiconisco the concrete foundation is all part of the old power plant I explored it many times while it was still standing.
Just went by what I was told. Thats for the comment.
EARTH ANGEL😇 Interesting!! Isn’t that nice of Cliff to share this “find” with you!? (And with us, also)👍 What does the new owner plan to use this property for? Fortified looking structure, almost looks Gothic?🤔 They don’t build them like this anymore! This was a Huge plant! The owner must feel quite nostalgic owning the property that he was played at and explored as a 👦🏼 kid!!!? 👍😎🏬🏢😍👍
I believe he will be using it for an impound business.
The series of concrete supports at the beginning, was the far end near a water source? Could this have been a viaduct to provide water for the steam turbines?
There's definitely water in the area. The flooded mine drains into a creek.
Isn't it a shame that the previous owner tore the building down, but kudos to the present owner for trying to preserve what's left.
No reason to tear it down.
Those look like lathe dogs on the front bumper of the burned out jeep.
Hi JP, awesome video, I'M just wondering why would the previous owner destroy the original building, and just leave it in ruins. That's crazy.why destroy something with great historical value?.😃
Very good question. Unfortunately, he's probably the only one who can answer that.
@@JPVideos81 I know, it's just crazy.☺
glad to hear that the new owner is going to clean it up a bit and leave everything as is -- it would be great for future exploring once all cleaned to really see whats left after the old owner demolished a great chunk of it // still very impressive as to the size - to bad do not have like a full aerial view of the works to get a better image from the remains - the picture was nice but to see but did not really show how big it really was - but in length not over all area like you said entire building with 3 or 4 levels including the lowest floor
Should of brought my drone.
@@JPVideos81 and yes with the drone you could have possibly seen the areas for the smoke stacks as well as the side of the mountain - might have been better to see the levels // still a very amazing place glad it will remain a part of history and not a further rubble pile
THAT POWER PLANT WAS BEAUTIFUL, WHY WOULD THEY TEAR IT DOWN . THE JOB THEY WERE DOING WAS FOR THE GOOD TO PROVIDE POWER. WHAT THEY DID Made a REAL MESS OUT OF EV ERYTHING.THANKS FOR THATT KID WHO CHECKED IT OUT IN HIS DAY. GOOD FOR HIM. GLAD THERE WAS A PLAACE TO BURN COAL DUST. BETTER THAN MAKING PILES OF THE STUFF.
Waving a hand to the both of you from Bluff City Tennessee. Great video 👍 very very detailed ..
Thanks!
Sad the former owner tore it All down. I bet it was magnificent
That was a huge structure. It's such a shame the previous owner tore a lot down. That jeep would take a lot of work 😛
I wish i could of explored the bldg before it was torn down.
Another great find and I'm glad I don't have s
should have used a drone to get a arial view of the cement pillars. might have gave you a better idea of what they were for
I agree. Didnt think i was going to need it, otherwise i would of brought it.
go to the kirby park for the old nesbit zoo and park
Anything left there to see?
I hate to ask where that water is going....
The water is a very powerful force. Reclaiming the mining shaft. So much pollution involved with mining operation.
They aren't very tall at the base are they?
hey..who was that little boy peeping around the corner, was he with you??
Yep
Might be interesting with metal detectors.
Meep
looks like you have a hot little jeep; opening bid $5....
Does that include shipping? LOL
Bid is higher than asking price, try again.
I hope u got permission that’s all private property
The owner was in the video with us...
JPVideos awesome he’s a great guy!
#notfirst. Lol.
Thats ok haha
coal burning great