Inside a Historic Coal Mine of Pennsylvania.
Channel: Going Somewhere
Date: 04/11/2023

Located in Carbon County(appropriately named)Lansford, Pennsylvania. No. 9 coal mine is the oldest, continually-operated coal mine in the United States. Operations began in 1855, and continued until 1972. The coal mine underwent a ten-year renovation to allow visitors. This included draining the constant flow of water(evident even today) within the tunnels. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, operated the entire valley. And you can today ride aboard the Lehigh train, which is very popular in Autumn season. 
Lansford, Pennsylvania, is named after Asa Lanford. He was a geologist and mine owner and a pioneer of the Anthracite industry. 
Despite what people are influenced (YouTube), to believe about coal, the facts of coal are misleading, especially within the domination of liberal media. Anthracite coal, as in Lansford, Pennsylvania, is very clean to burn for energy. Many anthracite coal quarries, are today...exhausted.  Pennsylvania, is the only current mining for Anthracite coal. Anthracite coal, actually burns cleaner than wood. Yip, so for environmental wackos of New York, against coal, they need a reality check that coal releases less carbon than wood. Of course, now environmentalists wanna ban everything in New York state. Even breathing. Clean coal, is as friendly for the environment as propane gas, for heating. Anthracite coal, does not give-off the noticeable black smoke, as media wants you to believe about all coal.
Take-a-GOOD-LOOK, at the opening  of the video. That data is correct. Being employed by the coal industry prior to unions, usually meant your take-home pay would be a few cents. A few cents for sixty, seventy, eighty hours of week per week. Everything, the entire towns, were owned by the coal corporations. Hotels, grocery, the town stores, coal miner equipment, houses, land surrounding the towns. All owned by the corporations. And every paycheck, the companies would deduct what you owed. So. Imagine earning a hundred dollars a week, and your actual paycheck amounted to about fifty cents. Imagine being injured in the mine, and you must stay in the mine until the end-of-shift, to be transported-out. A train car filled with coal, is of more value than that of a injured person. and if the battery to your helmet light is  exhausted, you don't get another unless you can pay-for-it. Coal mining got families through the Great Depression. by no means were these families living comfortably, as the measly paychecks are proof.  A very good movie depicting the coal miners against their employer, is portrayed in, "Matewan." Depicting the thugs coal mines used to control the workers and the deadly violence that would unite coal miners into a union. 
No. 9 coal mine, is so named for the grade of Anthracite coal. The higher the number, the higher the grade. Anthracite coal, makes for about one percent of all coal mined in the United States. And the majority of those mines are quarries. High-grade anthracite is used in the metallurgy industry. Bituminous and Subbituminous coal, as of 2022, 520 million tons of coal was used in the United States for energy production(environmental wackos must be screaming). That amount is less than ten percent of total energy production in America. So, consider the yearly weight of coal used for energy in America, in the 1940's, when coal & wood, was used by every citizen. 
The dilemma with any energy production today, is media...and protesters, are too quick to influence us primarily about the bad. The worse scenarios. The highly improbable. Americans, want to be self-sufficient with energy. But you can't burn wood. Clean coal, is nonrenewable, yet burns as clean as natural gas. Hmm? Is natural gas...renewable? And of course(only in America), some morons make a viral trend that natural gas is unhealthy. Now politicians wanna save us by banning gas stoves, and requiring expensive heating upgrades. What-a-joke. I suppose preventing a carbon-free atmosphere will save the rain forests(think before answering). 
So when travelling through the Pocono mountains, take a leisure stop at No.9. Only $12 , per person and Jim Thorpe, historic town is nearby.  It's a fascinating, educational tour, that will make you appreciate American fuel...By American workers. 
Oh. One more thing: It is a very steep, very long downhill drive to Langford. Your ear drums will "pop," and there's a couple side roads for trucks, if they lose braking. Going-up? It's a thigh-crusher to pedal-up. 
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