Quoting the YouTube comments:
Check out this link of a 1970 Film of this exact location to see how coke was manufactured! http://www.lifeinwesternpa.org/cokeov... Today Enjoy a tour of the last great coke oven operations located in Shoaf Pennsylvania, south of Uniontown. This 200 oven operation closed for good in 1972 due to not meeting EPA standards. So ended a 100 year history of coke manufacturing in Southwestern PA. This operation could be a wonderful walking tour if not for the fact that what is under it is too valuable for the owners to turn over to tourism (a coal seam) Too Bad. Enjoy the best examples of complete coke ovens, with rails still in place for "larry cars" to load the coal through a trunnel hole in the top, rails running along the front of the ovens to allow the "mud car" to assist the mudders who would block up the opening for a 36 or 72 hour coke charge, the Railroad "Wharf" still intact between two banks of ovens that allowed the workers to easily deposit the cooked coke and send north to Pittsburgh. To realize what workers did for so little (often a $1 a day or worse--paid in company store scrip), a dirty, life shortening existance, which supported their families, is quite a humbling experience. Visit www.stuffthatsgone.com [domain was undefined] and the Coal and Coke Heritage Museum, located at Penn State University, Fayette Campus US 119 South, Uniontown, PA.
I presume these were the larry cars.
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