MTR Photo Feed: Valley Brook Mine Cars Album

Mine Cars

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Mine Cars

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Mine Cars

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Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:49:51 -0500

Gene P. Schaeffer: This wonderful Saturday morning I visited Montour #4. With boots on, I walked from the Montour bridge at the West End of Montour #4 where bicycles were hidden many years ago while railroading the Montour, East towards the location of #4's tipple. I guess I found the mine car Tim mentioned earlier that was dislodged during Ivans havoc. Attached is a photo of it taken from the guard rail along ValleyBrook. Unless your out of your car and walking along Valley Brook, this car is directly below the hillside. Does anyone out there in Montour land have access to a tow truck or backhoe? This mine car is perhaps 15 feet long, has 1 wheel missing is directly below Valley Brook. A tow truck or backhoe could easily pull this mine car up to the highway for placement onto a flatbed and transported somewhere along the trail and displayed. The other 5 mine cars would be easy to salvage if permission could be obtained. The wheels to these mine cars are independently bolted to the underside frame of each car. I have some detailed photos of the one car if any one is interested... Thanks to Dave Oyler and Stan Sattinger for sharing this with all of us.

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:49:10 -0500

Gene P. Schaeffer: This wonderful Saturday morning I visited Montour #4. With boots on, I walked from the Montour bridge at the West End of Montour #4 where bicycles were hidden many years ago while railroading the Montour, East towards the location of #4's tipple. I guess I found the mine car Tim mentioned earlier that was dislodged during Ivans havoc. Attached is a photo of it taken from the guard rail along ValleyBrook. Unless your out of your car and walking along Valley Brook, this car is directly below the hillside. Does anyone out there in Montour land have access to a tow truck or backhoe? This mine car is perhaps 15 feet long, has 1 wheel missing is directly below Valley Brook. A tow truck or backhoe could easily pull this mine car up to the highway for placement onto a flatbed and transported somewhere along the trail and displayed. The other 5 mine cars would be easy to salvage if permission could be obtained. The wheels to these mine cars are independently bolted to the underside frame of each car. I have some detailed photos of the one car if any one is interested... Thanks to Dave Oyler and Stan Sattinger for sharing this with all of us.

A close up of the exposed car,

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:28:27 -0500

A close up of the exposed car,

Close view of the partially overturned cars.

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:25:11 -0500

Close view of the partially overturned cars.

Dennis Sims: Mine cars in the creek alongside Valleybrook Road just downtream from where the Montour #4 Tipple was located . Back in the early 90s while driving on ValleyBrook Road, I happened to notice the mine cars alongside the creek on the opposite bank of the road. I thought it would be nice to recover one and restore and set it up along the Trail somewhere. So, I put on the hip boots and waded down the creek from Bridge and shot some slides and to check out the feasibility of doing such. There was restoration work taking place on the old mine site at the time. Now I am not sure if these could be the same cars that could have been washed out and relocated in some of the floods that occurred on Brush Ruin or are different cars. Dave's picture shows the cars on the bank adjacent to the road. I cannot recall if there were such cars further downstream. To mark the location, this slide was taken to show the mine building and the retaining wall along Valley Brook Road. These cars were found at the end of the wall.

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:24:06 -0500

Dennis Sims: Mine cars in the creek alongside Valleybrook Road just downtream from where the Montour #4 Tipple was located . Back in the early 90s while driving on ValleyBrook Road, I happened to notice the mine cars alongside the creek on the opposite bank of the road. I thought it would be nice to recover one and restore and set it up along the Trail somewhere. So, I put on the hip boots and waded down the creek from Bridge and shot some slides and to check out the feasibility of doing such. There was restoration work taking place on the old mine site at the time. Now I am not sure if these could be the same cars that could have been washed out and relocated in some of the floods that occurred on Brush Ruin or are different cars. Dave's picture shows the cars on the bank adjacent to the road. I cannot recall if there were such cars further downstream. To mark the location, this slide was taken to show the mine building and the retaining wall along Valley Brook Road. These cars were found at the end of the wall.