Unfortunatly this mine has succomed to the fate of many a mine in the scranton area. This was the last mine in which the total layout was intact. Besides the slope opening, the wooden and steel tipple stood, there was a fan house, aircompressor building, engine house with hoist intact and a few mine cars outside. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Comission thought it a good place to install an emergency access road through the properity. Which i think is totally insane since one more mile up the road there is another overpass in which there is already a ramp going up to, its just grass and needs to be paved. Instead they condemed the land from the owner, gave him hardly what the property was worth and knocked everything down, except the fan house since it wasnt on the land they needed. Fortunatly for us we found out about this and talked to the demolition team who was scrapping the tipple. They saved the Sheeve wheel off of the top of the tipple for us. They said they hated destroying it but its their job. Well another one for the history books.