#centralia

[ropesbypatricia]

'Centralian Touch'

8m of 3mm mfp in white

#shibari #self tie #synthetics #digit play #silent hill #Centralia #homage #soot #in my restless dreams #videogame art #bdsmart #dark art #picsart #tbt

[illhideuinthewalls]

Centralia, Pennsylvania

#creepy #horror #nostalgia #creepy art #indie artist #horror art #horror core #creepypasta #emo scene #monster #silent hill #centralia #abandoned #my photgraphy

[20th-century-railroading]

Burlington Northern - Centralia, IL by d.w.davidson Via Flickr: A southbound BN grain train has arrived at Centralia, on October 5, 1986.

#bn #burlington northern #1986 #trains #freight train #history #centralia #illinois

[unteriors]

Dover Street, Centralia, Illinois.

#Centralia #Illinois

[viksalos]

Centralia, a mostly-razed Pennsylvania ghost town over an underground mine fire, as it exists in 2022--desolate landscapes, scattered graffiti, and a singular, pristine church.

(more photography)

#centralia #abandoned #urbex #rurex #urban exploration #photography #pennsylvania #appalachia #graffiti #graffiti art #aesthetic #silent hill #lingua ignota #mine #beauty in decay

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Hello from Centralia, where the graffitists have adopted a "nuff said" artistic mode.

#personal #travel #industrial history #centralia

[opendirectories]

#open directories #centralia #church #urbex #abandoned

[vyva-melinkolya]

Centralia PA

#centralia #pennsylvania #pennsyltucky #decrepit #cross

[mcgravin]

You've probably heard of the Centralia, PA coal fire, a fire burning through the coal seam beneath the now-abandoned ghost town of Centralia for the past 62 years. It's one of those neat facts that floats around the internet. Here's a favorite Youtube video on it from Jeffiot, and another (slightly more serious) documentary from someone who went there to see the town from himself.

But while Centralia has been covered plenty by the media including PRX's 99% Invisible podcast, it's not the persistent only mine fire. There are at least two others in Pennsylvania, one still burning like Centralia and one that appears to be extinguished, as well as plenty of them around the world like Burning Mountain, Australia and Smoking Hills, NWT, Canada. But I just learned one that has been called the "World's Greatest Mine Fire", and I agree for several reasons.

First, I must admit a personal bias. The fire is under New Straitsville, Ohio, a small village of fewer than 700 residents in the foothills of Appalachia not far from where I went to college. I'm very fond of the area.

Second, it's been burning for for more than twice as long as Centralia, and longer than any other coal fire in the United States (as far as I can tell). Centralia started in 1962, while the fire under New Straitsville started in 1884, 140 years ago. There are older fires, though; Brennender Berg ("Burning Mountain") in Germany started around 1688, from a fire set by a shepherd according to legend, while Burning Mountain, Australia may have been natural combustion... 5500 to 6000 years ago!

Third, while Centralia is a sometimes-curiosity that was largely unknown outside the town itself for decades, the New Straitsville fire was a bit of a sensation in its day. Locals would amuse sightseers by brewing coffee with hot water drawn directly from their well. Tour guides would charge 25¢ to fry an egg in a pan over the fire holes, or to bake a potato by just burying it in the hot soil over the mine. At some points, the flames would jet out of the mine entrances up to 100 feet in the air and could be seen from five miles away. In the winter, snow would melt from the ground over the mine, and rosebushes would bloom. It was still burning in 1938 when the Works Progress Administration hired scores of unemployed workers to try (and fail) to contain the fire with walls of clay and stone brick.

And finally, there's the cause of the New Straitsville fire. The Centralia fire was started when the town attempted to clean up a garbage dump by burning the mine waste that was piled up there, and despite thinking they had extinguished the fire, it continued to smolder and spread underground. Other fires I've read about were also started accidentally, like the Laurel Run fire that was started when a miner left a burning carbide lamp hanging under a wooden beam when everyone went home for the weekend. But the New Straitsville fire started during the Hocking Valley Coal Strike, when the Columbus & Hocking Coal and Iron Company hired scab miners to try to break the strike, so the strikers responded by sending a burning mine cars into six (or seven) mine entrances, igniting the coal.

That's the lasting effect of organized labor.

— New Straitsville, Ohio

— "World's Greatest Mine Fire", Historical Marker Database

— "Remember When: The World’s Largest Coal Mine Fire, 1938", Lancaster Eagle Gazette

— "Great Hocking Valley Coal Strike of 1884-1885", Ohio History Connection

#mine fire #centralia #organized labor #appalachia #coal mining

[360nw]

The Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade No. 15, a Baldwin-built 2-8-2 “Mikado” Steam Locomotive - July 2004

Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum

#washington state #washington #chehalis #centralia #railroad #original photograpers #original photography #photographers on tumblr

[aryburn-trains]

The Golden Spike Centennial Limited east of Centralia, MO. May 14, 1969

#golden spike centennial limited #nyc&stl 759 #nickel plate road 759 #hico #high iron company #nyc&stl #nickel plate road #1969 #trains #passenger train #history #centralia #missouri

[magiccheesecube]

#graffiti #pennsylvania #summer #highway #centralia

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girls of the night are: Lucky, Amplifier, Witch and Centralia from Magic by the Kilowatt!✧・ﾟ:*

#Audrey Spark #Gabbi Chen #Lana Spark #non binary #visual novel #discontinued #Magic by the Kilowatt #lucky #amplifier #witch #centralia #wings #angel wings #pink hair #blue hair #short hair #purple hair #purple #pink #blue #glasses

[20th-century-railroading]

SBD0038 by Stanley Short Via Flickr: Southbound CSX manifest No. 461 works from the Bellwood Subvdivision (former SAL) to the North End Subdivision (former ACL) at Centralia, VA on Nov. 29, 1986, led by SBD GP40 No. 6749.

#csx #sbd #seaboard system #1986 #trains #freight train #history #centralia #virginia

[federer7]

Floured hands kneading bread. Centralia, Kansas, 1956

Photo: Erich Hartmann

#erich hartmann #1956 #Centralia #kansas

[viksalos]

Collection of Pennsylvania churches--Pittsburgh, New Baltimore, Mount Carmel, Centralia.

(more photography)

#photography #pittsburgh #centralia #pennsylvania #appalachia #gothic #gothic architecture #appalachian gothic #regional gothic #church #cathedral #aesthetic #mine #really this is just a photoset about how it's always overcast in pennsylvania. lol #ok posts over today