Exploring a Century Old Abandoned Glass Factory

[@jimmylabb5868]

I've heard the company name Beacon redevelopment company that owns it ready to clean up the area. Don't know if work has started yet.🤔

[@nkflimz]

Great video! glad to be a part of the explore!

[@craigmains5094]

I lived nearby as a kid back in the 60s. In middle school my friend’s mom used to drive us to school. But first, with us in the car, she would drop off his older sister who worked at that factory. I think she was a bookkeeper. It was a busy place back in the day.

[@chrisretired5379]

Our dad worked at Kopp Glass in swissvale Pa. way back in time. As kids , a few of us would hike over to the hill side dump next to the plant, bazillions of assorted glass shapes and chunks. We hauled, by hand, a few of the colored chunks home. Looked like giant pieces of jello !

[@ArmyGrunt1986]

1:37 Some people might think you're exaggerating the risks of crossing railroad tracks not at an actual crossing, even when there's no train in sight... In South Mississippi about 10yrs ago a homeless man was killed by a train, he was left in pieces. The worst part was the reason he was hit was his foot got stuck under part of the track. I can't imagine how horrible that must of felt first hearing a train in the distance, hearing and feeling it get closer and closer, while struggling to get free. Then finally you see it barreling down at you, and you realize this is it, maybe hoping it won't hurt, maybe he had time for a final prayer. I've seen many people die in horrible ways from drowning, a buddy hitting a IED, another friend shooting himself at his own birthday party to a douchebag jumping off a the top of a parking garage after he stabbed his wife to death(I don't feel bad for him whatsoever) However that homeless man's death is really the only one that I can't stop thinking about and the one that really effected me even though I didn't witness it, one of my cop buddies in my unit told me about it. So to anyone that reads this please don't mess around or walk on or around railroad tracks, use a proper crossing.

[@shawncossel1100]

It would be interesting to see some of the glassware the factory produced if traceable to bottle diggers in the area.

[@thepawanderer]

that's a cool place to explore

[@patrickbass3542]

Are those "light-colored" brick in the furnaces "fire-brick"? And are they re-usable? WOW!!! What a find for kiln-builders!!!!! Who owns this property?

[@glennsmith3303]

At 1:08, that looks like the hospital in the background. That was torn down a while ago. How long ago was that vid taken?

[@PatrickBarrett-i3b]

Likely TONS of asbestos in there. The cost of clean up would essentially bankrupt any small town overnight. Check out Port Allegany PA and the Pittsburgh Corning glass plant. Shut down for asbestos production up to the 1970.s and only kept the line of glass block open until even that couldn't keep the doors open. Its now a huge waste sight and clean would be so expensive it would bankrupt both Pittsburgh Corning and Pittsburgh Plate Glass its partner. The sight sits now abandoned but burried behind it is so much asbestos it cannot be reclaimed for thousands of years. Its over for that town.

[@dakotahynus8759]

I work at glass factory called anchor hocking out spot here in Lancaster Ohio been there since 1905

[@wimalasenawijethunga1668]

Thank you ❤❤❤

[@graphtonix6607]

If you do end up going back to visit the LTEX locomotive Railyard in McDonald Ohio can I please come with you???

[@graphtonix6607]

When are you going back to the LTEX locomotive Railyard in McDonald Ohio???

[@oldscoolcooldiecast1879]

As a marble collecter I wonder if they made any and if so there definitely around the place trust me lol and if old enough there worth a decent amount

[@whitelion7976]

This was a bit creepy but very interesting as well. Too bad about the graffiti Make this a public park with artists.

[@hanisitsobarna4897]

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[@anthonyplayground1402]

Lead contamination there must be Chernobyl level

[@Rijeeris_The_Creator]

first lol Seriously tho, this is great.

[@petesacco3255]

I don't understand the logic behind the graffiti in a broken-down Factory it's kind of stupid

[@RoySATX]

The single money shot in this whole video, panning up, up, and out the stack, and you blow it. And it started off being such a beautiful shot, the slow panning up the stack walls and then 17:53 . Absolutely unforgivable. Shot's like that are rare, and places and opportunities to shoot them are even rarer, and you blew it. I hope you actually filmed up and out the top of the stack and it just got edited out, either way though it's just unforgivable. Thumbs down, pass on the subscribe button.