Max Mihalik

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DL 3007– Industrial History

Delaware Lackawanna no. 3007 sits idle at Steamtown.

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Delaware Lackawanna no. 3007 sits idle at Steamtown.

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This mine hoist solely existed to power a transfer station, making small movements to shift carts between tracks.

An old explorer left his mark where the tunnel ends in collapse.

A large hoist sits next to the end of the shaft, to assist in mine operations.

Deep in an abandoned mine, a mine shaft sits still as the groundwater trickles down. It really feels like a gate to hell when you are down there. This shaft was double-tracked to support carts moving in either direction.

A working Toledo Scale sits still in an abandoned hospital power plant.

This transfer station moved carts back and forth between tracks when going up and down the shaft. It was powered by a hoist atop an incline plane (right, not pictured).

A chain of two abandoned mine locomotives sit still, parked and untouched for decades in front of the shaft.

A transitory state, if you will

A close-up of a dashboard in a colorful, rusted and rotted out car in the woods.

Pipe Walk

Delaware Lackawanna no. 3007 sits idle at Steamtown.

The main, central alleyway of the Scranton Lace Factory. The facility is undergoing demolition at this point, visible in the back. The foreground buildings are quite overgrown.

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The Sewer Angel

Deep in the mine on a photography expedition, an explorer's silhouette is seen in a cloud of cigarette smoke.

Emergency lighting on...

This EIMCO mucker sits abandoned deep in a coal mine. A mucker is a special type of excavator/bulldozer that scoops mud and launches it directly backwards over itself. These are especially common in underground mining where space is tight. The particular mine this machine was found in was filled with ridiculous amounts of mud, so it makes a lot of sense to find it here.

At the now-demolished Scranton Lace Factory, the final production run of lace can be seen sitting in a loom, cut off and left to sit forever.

American Airlines Boeing 737-800 (N965AN) on final approach to DCA runway 19.

The coal mine gangway joins with an inner slope.

This flatcar sits abandoned in deep muck carrying coal chutes. The mine extends on in the distance seemingly forever, and there is some miscellaneous mechanical components just beyond the flatcar. This mine was excruciatingly long difficult to traverse; the muck was as much as 24-30 inches at its worst. This photo was taken towards the end of the trip, at which point we had already trudged 4 miles through deep mud and water.

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