Good Spring, PA

Good Spring, Pennsylvania

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 Coalfield
March 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.