By The Butler Mine Tunnel

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April 24, 2012

By the Butler Mine Tunnel

As you approach this spot, you can smell an oily, arcid smell.  The Butler Mine Tunnel is below.   After all these years it still stinks.

People were dumping tankerloads of toxic wast into bore holes some miles away.  The oily, contaminants worked its way underground and came out in the Susquehamna River.

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Tidbit :

 
From 1991 CONRAIL Timetable :

Taylor Secondary Track 

Distance from Hoboken 

136.7  TAYLOR (D&H Railway) 
136.7  BLS MINOOKA 
139.7  OLD FORGE 
142.8  PITTSTON JCT. 
  (Lehigh Sec and 
  Pocono Northeast RR)  

(Why is the distance 
listed as distance 
from Hoboken, since
trains have not run 
to Hoboken in many,
 many years ???)