Centralia to Raven Run: LVRR   The Turncock controlled a valve either filling the watertank or drawing water off to fill the locomotive boiler.  The tank itself dates to 1874 when the LVRR built a new “high grade” from Raven Run to Centralia on its Mahanoy Division, replacing the old “low grade” along Big Mine […]

This sharpening wheel came from the head of the Glendon Colliery Seven Foot Slope. It is possible that the cracked stone was simply dumped here; but it is more probable that it was part of the company blacksmith shop situated at the entrance of the mine for the maintenance and repair of  mining tools.  While a whetstone is […]