Phil,
Don't look for Johnstown in West Virginia... it's in Pennsylvania! I was visiting Morgantown with my daughter, and used that as "base camp" and traveled around in southwest PA while she was in rehearsals at WVU.
Lee
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Thanks for these great pics. The next time I get out to WV next May, I'll make sure to get to Johnstown, and the immidiate area to see this cool stuff.
Phil
....You caught the area at one of the great vantage points. Hope to be right there again this upcoming Memorial Day week. The blast furnaces being demolished I spoke of were back behind the left center part of your photo. Behind the Amtrak Station. Years ago, that area belched out black smoke so thick, at times it was hard to see the sky looking that direction from downtown Johnstown.
Edit: When the mills were in operation, and the cloud layers were at the lower level....20 miles away, at my home area one could easy see the bright reddish glow in the sky from the mills operation.
Quentin
I visited Johnstown last year. Fascinating history there...
....Lee:
If you do decide to come down {north}, from Rockwood on the S&C and continue all the way to Johnstown, and if interested....You will find all sorts of Industrial "remains" from the massive steel industry of several decades ago.
Some years ago while visiting the area I was up on the Amtrak platform {former Pennsylvania RR}, east - west route....watching them preparing to blast down one of several "blast furnaces" visible just north of my location....There are steel mill remnants up and down that valley for miles....Former Bethlehem Steel Works. And up until recently, Freightcar America, Johnstown or close to that....manufactures of rail cars way back into history when it still was the mammoth spread of steel works.
US Steel was located there in the valley too.
And Amtrak still calls at the Johnstown platform I was standing on watching the demolition I mentioned above.....Of course NS now.
I'm not sure what this place was, maybe a cement plant or something. It appears to have big kilns of one sort or another...
And to the left of the towers, there's the remains of what looks like a long, low concrete looking quonset hut shaped structure... It looked pretty smashed up, so I don't know if it was supposed to be on the ground, or if it fell there...
This is a riverside barge loader, one would assume for coal. It was a pretty big rig, spanning across the road to what looked like a concrete flood loader, probably a storage silo for coal being transfered from the railroad to the barges.
More at my web gallery.Lee
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