{"id":501,"date":"2012-04-23T03:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/?p=501"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:14:11","slug":"abandoned-coal-mine-processing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/abandoned-coal-mine-processing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Coal Mine \/ Processing Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘m currently in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a very scenic place. There is lots to look at here – the countryside is very beautiful, the mountains are gorgeous, and there are plenty of parks with hiking trails, waterfalls, beautiful forests, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So one thing I didn’t expect to find here was an abandoned coal mine. It’s probably the biggest abandoned building I’ve ever been inside, not to mention the most dangerous. A couple of buddies from work went there with me – in a couple of shots, you can see Doug setting up for shots of his own. I used my brand new Sunpak tripod<\/a>. The thing is awesome – it was just under fifty bucks at Best Buy, it has a pistol grip head that has a complete range of movement in a sphere, and it has retractable spikes on the feet for use in outdoor environments. I love the thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So back to the creepy old mine (sounds like an episode of Scooby-Doo eh?), we stumbled and burrowed our way around for the better part of three hours. There was lots to see – old equipment, boilers, electrical boxes, some sort of generator \/ turbine assembly, and a set of four absolutely huge furnaces. Lots of light play was going on, many opportunities for framing shots through windows, and in general it was an incredible all around experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ever find yourself in Wilkes-Barre, head south from town on highway 309 and wind your way through the village to see this incredible piece of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘m currently in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a very scenic place. There is lots to look at here – the countryside is very beautiful, the mountains are gorgeous, and there are plenty of parks with hiking trails, waterfalls, beautiful forests, etc. So one thing I didn’t expect to find here was an abandoned coal mine. It’s probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[161,14,16,36,10,11,9,12],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-abandoned","tag-architecture","tag-buildings","tag-civilization","tag-creepy","tag-decay","tag-old","tag-urban"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_8780.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EkH2-85","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahgheera.com\/mainsequence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}