Abandoned Coal Town of Sewell, West Virginia in the New River Gorge

[@indecipherabl3]

Fantastic video!!

[@michaelemory552]

Looks like there are still daffodils growing by the company store. I miss those hills.

[@neilhansen5663]

Great history

[@samsam66698]

Right before the bridge that is a boiler. What's left of it

[@jennyandrews1671]

Snakes come to mind.

[@penni11]

Dwelling in the hill and you dont look? wow not real adventurist

[@WebsterHighlanders]

You assume that because it's not on video that I didn't look in? Nothing to see; it was too dark and caved in, so I didn't video it.

[@sbennettyt]

It was just a spring.

[@calebbarkley3097]

Cool video 😎

[@sbennettyt]

That was not a monitor car. You can find two monitor cars at the Fayette mine, one at the Stonecliff mine, and one at the Wright mine. The one at Wright still has it's wheels. Wright also has one of those tanks like you found here. Not sure what it is but someone said it's a rr tanker car.

[@WebsterHighlanders]

I would have said tanker car since that's what it looked like to me, but I based my statement on how it was described as a monitor car in a book by a New River coal town historian who said it was a monitor car. Oh well.

[@GandAdventures]

Is this road down to Sewell the old railroad bed?

[@WebsterHighlanders]

90% of it is the old Manns Creek Railway grade

[@GandAdventures]

@@WebsterHighlanders where and what is the other 10%?

[@WebsterHighlanders]

the paved road from the Babcock grist mill to the last cabin is not part of the railway grade

[@GandAdventures]

@@WebsterHighlanders Thank you. From cabin 13, where did the RR go then? Did it cross the creek near the admin office and run up to Landisburg or did it go up the hill from the cabin?

[@WebsterHighlanders]

wvstateparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BabcockStateParkMap.pdf follow the narrow gauge trail in the park to where it connects into old sewell road; manns creek railway connected sewell to the flat top area; the park's website has further details

[@milepost465historyhobbies4]

The “power house” is the Mann’s Creek Railway engine house.

[@WebsterHighlanders]

Thanks for clarifying that. I made that correction in the description as well.