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Ok kids brace yourself for this one.......Im relinquishing my reign on UGM to Eric Bella, Adam Z and The Newt! What what what you say? Well i just dont have the time right now and in the future to put into the group as i have in the past. I'm beginning another project that will take up all my spare time which ill get to in a minute. The one thing that makes UGM so successful is we focus on our anthracite history solely and we have a great group of guys that have absolutely no political agenda. There is not one person who runs the the group although i did most of the planning for presentations, tours and trips. Well thats changing. Im sure my boys will do me proud. 2 recruits that we have known for awhile now have a bunch of time and new energy to devote to this operation where we got to a point where we hit a lull and are stepping up to the plate. Between work, wives/girlfriends/work/other junk, Myself, Banks, Mike A. Todd, and the others are ready for some new blood to step in and carry the torch. Ill still be doing the website updates when Eric gives me new stuff to put up for the simple fact that i learned how to do it, it took a long time to learn and im not playing the teacher to learn someone else, but thats all good. Now just so you characters know neither i or any others from our group are bailing out, we just want to sit back for a while enjoy what we have accomplished and watch as new blood makes us proud! Or after a week we may have to take back over again when They burn the organization to the ground, who knows! but anyways, whats the new project you ask........

Well, i decided its time to get into competition aerobatics and the possibility of doing air shows in the future so i will be building an aerobatic biplane from the ground up. I have been working on planes for 15 years and building them for other people for 10. its about time to build one for myself. For those that are interested ill be starting a build log or a website on it or something, we'll see.

-Chris

We do have to apologize for the lack of updates recently. We have been extremely busy, with one major setback. We have had to relocate our rail facility due to Chris's dad moving. We just finished that task and are proud to announce that we donated the Franklin Colliery Mine Car to OldForgeCoalMine.com's project at the Clark Slope in the Sparrowville Herritage Park. More on that to come here as well as on their website. The Mantrip Car we acquired from International Anthracite's B&M Tunnel Near Tower City has been donated to the No.9 Mine Tour in Lansford and was regauged to 42" as well as had alot of other work completed and was in use this past tour season! great to see a piece of our equipment going to great use! As for the rest of our mine equipment it has been tucked away in a secure place for now until we need it for the next project! To see whats new faster than i can get it updated here also check the forum, we have photos that are not on here and discussion about them.

12/1/09

Put a few more cards in the deck:

Added:Eric's Biography

Added:Nick's Biography

5/25/09

Added Anthracite Archives From our friends at OldForgeCoalMine.com

Coming Soon:Photos From Our Latest Underground Tour. For those that missed this one, we will be running another later this summer.

3/18/09

Overhauled the Diamond No.15 Slope page with a comprehensive history and new higher resolution photos.

2/27/09

Overhauled the Lehman No.179 Slope page with a comprehensive history and new higher resolution photos.

2/25/09