Huber Breaker is sold to a scrap co.
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A long standing part of north eastern Pennsylvanian history is being sold to a scrap dealer. It is one of two remaining breakers out of the hundreds that once stood. I'll have to search out my pics from a trip that I took with Tomustang there a few years ago to post here in it's memory. Most likely it will be gone soon.
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AGGGGGG!!!!!!! I can't find the disk that I saved my pics to. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
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#3
Oh no!!

Maybe they will take their time to demolish, so we can visit again

Don't worry I have my photos somewhere
Tom

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#4
This was on the news today.. The end will be here soon.
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Drove by the Huber Breaker in Ashley PA with Tomustang to see what's left. Only the main breaker and power house remain. They will be coming down in the spring. This shot is how the breaker complex looked up till the 1950's when the foreign coal dump was built to the left of the main building. There coal from other mines would be dumped and carried into the breaker. From the foot of this complex an inclined railroad called the Ashley Plains carried all the eastbound freight on the Jersey central. It also hosted the worlds largest rail yard dedicated to coal. The CNJ's "back track" was built around the Plains and mountains during the second world war to speed up east bound traffic flow.    

And a shot of the front gate that was not visible from the street till just recently.    
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#6
Part of me knows it's "progress", but it's sad all the same.
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#7
Although we couldn't get back to it, it still was good to see one last time before they tear it all down.
Tom

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#8
a short film from the people that live near the breaker.

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This is probably the last post I will do in this thread because it is gone now :cry: Sad :cry: . Some more of the nation's history that is now lost forever. At one time there were hundreds of these buildings around the anthracite fields, until last week there were two, now there is only one and it will be coming down soon also. Would it have been too much to ask that one be preserved,, without places like this this country would not have been the industrial power it once was, But that is gone too.

The local news ran a story on it and got some film of the breaker coming down.

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