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Wheeling/Exploring Centralia PA. Maybe you've seen Silent Hill?
I went to pick up my Crate engine last week and we drove through the town of Centralia. You have all seen the pictures of the bare grass fields seperated by the grid layout of pavement which was once the roads and alleys of Centralia. Anyway, on the way home I was intrigued by the smoking mounds of dirt. My brother, being the asshat he is talked me into putting the old XJ into 4hi and driving up the mounds and into the woods.
As some of you may know, in the attempts to put out the fires hundreds of metal pipes were drilled into the ground and used to pump water into the mines. Weeeeeell they had to make roads to get to these pipes right?
We spent a good 3 hours with a crate engine in the trunk off roading through paths wide enough for three people to walk side-by-side through. Passing ruins of homes, old cars, you name it. We clocked 18.8 miles of paths and would have gotten lost if we hadn't gone straight at all the intersections we came to. I was going to go back up tomorrow if anyone wants to tag along we can meet at Cabelas and you can see Centralia like hardly anyone has seen before. There were several over looks which you could see for miles down at the towns of Ashland, Shamokin, and Mt. Carmel.
This is why I bought a Jeep!
Before people tell me it was unsafe. I didnt pass a single "NO TRESPASSING" "DANGER" or "WARNING" sign. We were driving on the actual street roads of Centralia, passing benches, light poles, broken stop lights, and it eventually turned from pavement to dirt, to gravel, to smoking dirt mounds then into the woods.
I went to pick up my Crate engine last week and we drove through the town of Centralia. You have all seen the pictures of the bare grass fields seperated by the grid layout of pavement which was once the roads and alleys of Centralia. Anyway, on the way home I was intrigued by the smoking mounds of dirt. My brother, being the asshat he is talked me into putting the old XJ into 4hi and driving up the mounds and into the woods.
As some of you may know, in the attempts to put out the fires hundreds of metal pipes were drilled into the ground and used to pump water into the mines. Weeeeeell they had to make roads to get to these pipes right?
We spent a good 3 hours with a crate engine in the trunk off roading through paths wide enough for three people to walk side-by-side through. Passing ruins of homes, old cars, you name it. We clocked 18.8 miles of paths and would have gotten lost if we hadn't gone straight at all the intersections we came to. I was going to go back up tomorrow if anyone wants to tag along we can meet at Cabelas and you can see Centralia like hardly anyone has seen before. There were several over looks which you could see for miles down at the towns of Ashland, Shamokin, and Mt. Carmel.
This is why I bought a Jeep!
Before people tell me it was unsafe. I didnt pass a single "NO TRESPASSING" "DANGER" or "WARNING" sign. We were driving on the actual street roads of Centralia, passing benches, light poles, broken stop lights, and it eventually turned from pavement to dirt, to gravel, to smoking dirt mounds then into the woods.
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