I didn't know this was going to happen, and I was very surprised when I came across this video.
It says that at noon on 3/15/2018 they set off the charges that brought this huge building down.
I only saw it once. I was coming from Mark's Supply in Shenandoah, down RT54 to Mahanoy City. After I passed under the "Coal Keeps The Lights On" bridge, I saw this giant hulk of a building on the left. I thought, "Darn! I should have brought the camera!".
Now I really wish I had brought the camera.
-Don
3/15/18 The St. Nicholas Breaker is Gone
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Nice S, they done real good settin the charges. She came down nice & square!!
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Now they can just peck away with those big hydraulic shears & haul it to the scrap yards. Sure ain't like the old days of hand torching from the top down.
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Or have it fall on the crane,...like a former boss did with a two story commercial building we were taking down in a boat yard.
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They have been parting and piecing at it for about 3-4 years. I drove past one day a few weeks ago and it was still standing, came back for another load a few days later and it was gone.
When we first began hauling coal from Blaschak, it was intact in all its entirety. I understood from some guys at Blaschak that there was a group that was trying to raise money to save it. Unfortunately reality set in first and now we have lost another important piece of PA anthracite history.
When we first began hauling coal from Blaschak, it was intact in all its entirety. I understood from some guys at Blaschak that there was a group that was trying to raise money to save it. Unfortunately reality set in first and now we have lost another important piece of PA anthracite history.
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Thankfully there was scrap value, but a piece of history is gone forever.
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How about the puddles of Mercury on the bottom deck?