another old breaker gone.
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From 12,500 tons a day in the 30';s to zero and now gone. This was a video from last fall! you will need to copy and paste this video sorry! https://www.facebook.com/senglar1/videos/20685488 ... zMTU3MDA0/
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Link worked for me and I was not logged in to FB as member either. THX
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That was the old Saint Nicholas breaker. It was located between Mahanoy City and Shenandoah, Pa.
It's been over 30 years since I was inside but I remember it being a steel frame breaker.
Paulie
It's been over 30 years since I was inside but I remember it being a steel frame breaker.
Paulie
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It was actually last winter, one year ago yesterday they knocked it down.
3/15/18 The St. Nicholas Breaker is Gone
Here is a Youtube video of it.
This was the old Blaschak breaker. If I remember correctly this was the biggest anthracite coal breaker ever built.
Sad to see it go.
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3/15/18 The St. Nicholas Breaker is Gone
Here is a Youtube video of it.
This was the old Blaschak breaker. If I remember correctly this was the biggest anthracite coal breaker ever built.
Sad to see it go.
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I drove right by it very often through the Winter months when going into Blaschak, man that thing was huge. There was a historical group that tried to save it but as I understand fell short on the money needed. It was the largest in the World along with the one at Locust Summit asi understood.
One morning I came by last year and it was laid over in a pile — the lady who runs the scales at Blaschak told me it came down the previous day.
One morning I came by last year and it was laid over in a pile — the lady who runs the scales at Blaschak told me it came down the previous day.
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A whole lot of $$$$ was there in scrap metal...probably some of that metal made it back here in the US inside our new cell phones.
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Thank you for postingStokerDon wrote: ↑Sat. Mar. 16, 2019 8:17 pmIt was actually last winter, one year ago yesterday they knocked it down.
3/15/18 The St. Nicholas Breaker is Gone
Here is a Youtube video of it.
This was the old Blaschak breaker. If I remember correctly this was the biggest anthracite coal breaker ever built.
Sad to see it go.
-Don
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Yes, very sad. Thanks for posting.
For those interested, here's another video with it's history and pictures of it earlier.
Paul
For those interested, here's another video with it's history and pictures of it earlier.
Paul