Good Spring Colliery was operated by Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. from 1890 until
1931. In 1905 there was a mine fire in the Mammoth seam of Good Spring Colliery.
March 2025 image by author
Coal company houses at Good Spring, Pa. These sure don't look like Philadelphia & Reading company houses, though, which were usually duplexes. These are more like coal company houses found in the Northern Anthracite CoalfieldMarch 2025 image by author
An old pump house in Good Spring. There used to be a pond next to it, but it has been drained now. Nearby was once the Good Spring railroad depot, also now gone.
March 2026 image by author
There is not much remaining of the orignal Good Spring mine, but this truck dump tipple still remains at Good Spring, replete with a trip of empty hopper cars that have been stranded here for years.
March 2026 image by author
Coal train forgotten in the woods.
Doug's Pictures
September 2026 image by Doug
The main slope portal still exists.
September 2026 image by Doug
Closer inspection of the main portal lintel reveals the inscribed text, "August 3, 1923."
September 2026 image by Doug
Peering down into the main slope portal at Good Spring. In the distance the portal is filled in.
September 2026 image by Doug
In addition to the slope portal, here is the overgrown tender portal at Good Spring.
