NEWKIRK TUNNEL
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sclave
N 40° 47.472 W 075° 59.143
18T E 416838 N 4516046
This brings you to the enterance of the now abandoned Newkirk Tunnel!
Waymark Code: WMCN6
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 05/15/2006
Views: 99
The NEWKIRK Tunnel was first driven in 1868 to a depth of 505 feet into Sharp Mountain.Owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Company since 1875,the tunnel was expanded in the 1940's to a depth of 2,211 feet and mined 1,800 feet and 7,200 feet west.
A cleaning plant and loading facilities were located in front of the tunnel's enterance and taken by rail by the same name (P&R)!
It is now abandoned and gated off and drains damaging acid mine water into the west branch of the Schuylkill River! If left un-mined the water would come up out of the ground from a natural spring fresh & pure!
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