acWhat started out as a ride to go to a state park near McKeesport to find some ruins of an old factory in the woods, turned out to be something totally different.
We were on our way out of town and decided to try to fins this place that we had heard of in Dead Man's Hollow. Only thing was, we could not find it on the map and we really had no real desire to go hiking a lot today. Top that with Little Girl fast asleep in the back seat, and when we got to the destination, we realized, it was not going to happen, at least not this time. So, we looped back around and when we did, upon our drive home, we found some wonderful finds. Some, we just passed. Are we becoming abandoned snobs??? Maybe, I am not sure. We did find two great finds.
1. Green Man Tunnel - Legend has it - this little boy was climbing on the wires, got electrocuted and that burnt his face off. He was a lonely boy and then a lonely man and he would walk this path of road to the tunnel. The tunnel was there, we saw no ghosts and we really wanted to be able to walk through it. However, it was filled up with salt and that was a little disappointed.
BUT...
The next place was AWESOME!!
2. We drove on and as we were cruising along we saw this metal pipe that was looming over the road. So we kind of followed the pipe as we approached it. To be honest, it was blue and the power plant that we were passing was blue so we thought that one had to be part of the other. However, upon slowing down, we realized that the two were totally separate. The pipe just led to nowhere. well it led to abandoned heaven. What we think we saw was the remnants of a natural gas plant or some type of steel mill or something that once stood on the land. Offices were still there, phones on desks, boots still in the doors. Old MACK trucks stood vacant and stripped where they parked their last time hauling debris or resources. The tipple was cut in half, seemingly because it looked pretty dangerous, as was the blue pipe. It was an incredible find, wide open to exploration. We walked the train tracks, checking out the cooling ponds (there were two). We didn't even go all the way to the rive to see the several buildings that were vacant down there. I made my way up into the tipple, but only got so far as the stairs were rusted out and there was serious creaking going on. We got super muddy, dirty, full of burrs. I love when the unexpected truns out to be awesome. Guess that is the way it seems ot be flowing these days.
We were on our way out of town and decided to try to fins this place that we had heard of in Dead Man's Hollow. Only thing was, we could not find it on the map and we really had no real desire to go hiking a lot today. Top that with Little Girl fast asleep in the back seat, and when we got to the destination, we realized, it was not going to happen, at least not this time. So, we looped back around and when we did, upon our drive home, we found some wonderful finds. Some, we just passed. Are we becoming abandoned snobs??? Maybe, I am not sure. We did find two great finds.
1. Green Man Tunnel - Legend has it - this little boy was climbing on the wires, got electrocuted and that burnt his face off. He was a lonely boy and then a lonely man and he would walk this path of road to the tunnel. The tunnel was there, we saw no ghosts and we really wanted to be able to walk through it. However, it was filled up with salt and that was a little disappointed.
BUT...
The next place was AWESOME!!
2. We drove on and as we were cruising along we saw this metal pipe that was looming over the road. So we kind of followed the pipe as we approached it. To be honest, it was blue and the power plant that we were passing was blue so we thought that one had to be part of the other. However, upon slowing down, we realized that the two were totally separate. The pipe just led to nowhere. well it led to abandoned heaven. What we think we saw was the remnants of a natural gas plant or some type of steel mill or something that once stood on the land. Offices were still there, phones on desks, boots still in the doors. Old MACK trucks stood vacant and stripped where they parked their last time hauling debris or resources. The tipple was cut in half, seemingly because it looked pretty dangerous, as was the blue pipe. It was an incredible find, wide open to exploration. We walked the train tracks, checking out the cooling ponds (there were two). We didn't even go all the way to the rive to see the several buildings that were vacant down there. I made my way up into the tipple, but only got so far as the stairs were rusted out and there was serious creaking going on. We got super muddy, dirty, full of burrs. I love when the unexpected truns out to be awesome. Guess that is the way it seems ot be flowing these days.