OLD TRAIN TUNNEL SKELETON IS EXPOSED 

Many of the unused rail lines have been converted and repurposed for use as hiking and bike trails. Thanks for watching

Yea we like them too we think it adds a different perspective to the whole video. Thanks for watching.

Yes there is so much history behind...dark history...left untold. We have heard about so many people losing their lives building this great country that we have today. We want to document them while they are still here. Thanks so much for watching and the kind words. I will be heading over to check out your channel, sounds like something I would really enjoy ~ Tracee

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@@DoortotheAbandoned You're welcome.

It was super windy and creepy. Funny it wasn't overly windy outside but just the tunnel seemed to act like a funnel and suck it in. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊

Thank You for your support. Originally this 88 mile rail line was the Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad founded in 1903 and constructed over the next few years. In 2004 it became part of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad who continues to operate a section of it from Freeport PA to Kittanning PA.

Yea , def some good airflow through that one . Those tunnels you mention sound awesome hopefully we will be seeing those in a vid from you soon. Thanks for watching and thank you for your support --Brent

@@DoortotheAbandoned one is doable during drought and on my list brother.

We parked on a road that runs parallel with the railroad tracks and walked up the hill and down the tracks. Wasn't to bad of a walk in March, it was a pretty chilly day though. Might be grown up a little now but its an easy walk. Thanks for watching, have fun and be safe 😊 ~ Tracee

The actual name of the Plant was the Armstrong Power Station a 356 Megawatt coal fired Plant . This plant operated from 1958 to 2012 Thanks for watching.

@@DoortotheAbandoned Thanks, I was wanting more into on the power plant! That is not even a 1 GW power plant and it's old likely without suffer dioxide scrubbers. It's too small to be efficient with staffing compared to larger plants. I'm very surprised it justified the expense of building a railway just for it unless the expectation was it would be expanded or there would be more industrial customers. I wish I was a civil engineer and knew for sure, but the tunnel's deterioration appears greatly due to poor ground water control and pressure build up. I don't see any seep holes to relieve pressure in its lining. This is the standard fate of coal fired electric power plants built before the early 1970s. They are too inefficient to justify to expand or retrofit to meet suffer dioxide emissions with large scrubbers so they typically switched to burning low suffer Black River Basin sub bituminous coal of 2/3 the thermal BTU to mass ratio of Appalachian high BTU bituminous coal that has some suffer. That let them get an EPA waver to allow low suffer dioxide emissions, but those wavers are only for a set period then run out. That is the main reason so many old smaller coal fired power plants have been retired over the last decade and will continue to do so. It's much cheaper and comparatively easy to build new natural gas fired combined cycle electric power plants per GW than new high efficiency coal fired plants. Natural gas fired electric power do cost about twice or more to fuel per MW than a modern high efficiency coal plant. The most efficient modern coal plant fueling cost with low energy costs during the COVID pandemic in 2020 would have to have NG at $1.1 per million BTUs to be equal; whereas, NG was at $2 per million BTUs. Both coal and especially NG was largely below profitable margins at that time. The coal plant has higher over head costs with higher staffing per GW than running a NG plant which makes their lower fueling costs less attractive. Most older coal fired plants are not nearly this efficient. The WV John Adams power plant I got a tour of with IEEE from WV Tech about 1985 is about a 2.9 GW power plant. The engineer giving the tour was very proud of its environmental protection and disposal processes and how efficient the plant was. It was built in the early 1970s. He said the only thing going up those stacks is water vapor and carbon dioxide! The fly ash they collect is of such high quality they sell to toothpaste manufactures. I don't think he was including oxides of nitrogen emissions. Those with sunlight can turn into smog and there was no after treatment discussion of it at the time. Now that the normal air pollution of unburned HC and particulate matter has been greatly reduced the remaining aspect of air pollution is smog from NOx. Just a note carbon dioxide's greenhouse gas behavior has no scientific method for causing global warming. High school freshmen science should of discussed earth's greenhouse effect as taking place within 20 meters of the surface being held in deep saturation by the strong greenhouse gas water vapor to add 10°F (5.55°C) to earth's average temperature which can't be changed by other greenhouse gases. All the greenhouse energy is considered to have been completely absorbed within 20 meters of the surface. The United Nation's IPCC science report, in the back pages of that nearly 200 page report, discloses it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20 THOUSAND meters altitude where there is no greenhouse energy considered to exist. You only need a high school education to understand that.

Yea we love it too, Thanks for coming along--Brent

Thanks for the info we didn't know the end was that close this was our first time here and our time that day was limited but next time were up that way we will check out the things you mentioned. Thanks for watching.

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