Underground Miners

Underground Miners We are dedicated to preserving Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal mining heritage. To achieve this mission, Underground Miners has three goals:

1.

Mission: Underground Miners is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, dedicated to preserving Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal mining heritage through a historical online archive, equipment restoration, and educational public events. Create and maintain the largest archive of anthracite mining history, by both creating a website with searchable online information, as well as a more extensive archive with

more in depth information. These will contain photos, drawings, maps, papers, and artifacts, all preserved through digitization.

2. Continue to preserve, restore, and grow a collection of rare anthracite mining artifacts and equipment. This includes everything from miner’s lamps to mine locomotives. Most significantly, the current collection includes the only operating locomotive from the northern coal field.

3. Educate the public through interactive events, creating excitement and interest in anthracite heritage. This includes private in-depth mine tours at the area’s tour mines, hands on open house events at the restoration shop, and public presentations throughout different coal region events.

Looks like a great weekend coming up! Cmon out to the Brooks Mine where you can watch our volunteers continue work outs...
05/27/2026

Looks like a great weekend coming up! Cmon out to the Brooks Mine where you can watch our volunteers continue work outside the mine extending the rail line for future use! Track laying, rail bending and spiking will be the order of the day! It will also be a great day for a mine tour from one of our knowledgeable tour guides! Don’t have time for a full tour, no problem you are free to take a quick walk through the mine at your own pace as well! Admission to the Brooks Mine is always free but we greatly accept your donations! Those donations are what allows our volunteers the ability to continually improve the exhibits inside and outside the mine! Stop on by and hope to see you this Saturday or sometime soon!

A Soldier is given a tour of an Anthracite mine during WW2, 1942. May we forever be a nation grateful for the sacrifice...
05/25/2026

A Soldier is given a tour of an Anthracite mine during WW2, 1942. May we forever be a nation grateful for the sacrifices of those who fell during service. On this Memorial Day, we honor the memories of our soldiers. Today, your friends at UGM hope everyone has meaningful Memorial Day.

With the poor weather forecast, the holiday weekend, and a few of our volunteers being under the weather, we have decide...
05/23/2026

With the poor weather forecast, the holiday weekend, and a few of our volunteers being under the weather, we have decided to not open the Brooks mine tomorrow (Saturday). We will see you next Saturday (May 30th) out at the mine!

Join us for the 3rd Annual Knox Mine Disaster Memorial Day Saturday June 6th. See flyer for more information below:
05/19/2026

Join us for the 3rd Annual Knox Mine Disaster Memorial Day Saturday June 6th. See flyer for more information below:

Such a rainy day at Brooks today even the ducks came out! Even still we had a great day bringing 100 people through the ...
05/09/2026

Such a rainy day at Brooks today even the ducks came out! Even still we had a great day bringing 100 people through the mine!

We would like to once again thank the Robert Y Moffat Family Charitable Trust for a generous general operating support g...
05/09/2026

We would like to once again thank the Robert Y Moffat Family Charitable Trust for a generous general operating support grant that we are applying to our restoration and fabrication shop. We have some exciting things coming out of the shop in the next month or so, but to share what’s currently in production, we have our current mine car restoration. This is a mine car we built once before back in 2006, but was due for an overhaul. R&R logging and sawmill in Mehoopany provided all the Oak for the car and this time we are treating each beam with our special blend of preservative. Once this car is done we are moving right into restoring the original Brooks Mine Coal Car. We have all the wood as well to restore this car. Stay tuned, we will have more to come from the shop this summer!

Due to the rain today, we will be open tomorrow, April 26th! Scranton’s 160th Birthday Block Party was also rescheduled ...
04/25/2026

Due to the rain today, we will be open tomorrow, April 26th! Scranton’s 160th Birthday Block Party was also rescheduled to tomorrow, so there will be plenty going on, just without the rain! 🪨⛏️

This Saturday April 25th, will be the opening day for our 3rd full season at the Brooks Mine, Nay Aug Park, Scranton! As always admission to the mine is free! We have made a few updates to exhibits within the mine, stop on by for a great mine tour, or just a stroll through the mine! The mine will be open Saturdays through October 10AM-5PM. As a bonus for Saturday the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art will be hosting a block party celebrating the city's 160th Birthday! Celebrate the occasion with this free day of activities for kids, desserts provided by the City of Scranton, displays of historic Scranton artifacts and memorabilia, entertainment, and more! Its going to be a busy day in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, PA and we look forward to seeing you there!

This Saturday April 25th, will be the opening day for our 3rd full season at the Brooks Mine, Nay Aug Park, Scranton! As...
04/21/2026

This Saturday April 25th, will be the opening day for our 3rd full season at the Brooks Mine, Nay Aug Park, Scranton! As always admission to the mine is free! We have made a few updates to exhibits within the mine, stop on by for a great mine tour, or just a stroll through the mine! The mine will be open Saturdays through October 10AM-5PM. As a bonus for Saturday the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art will be hosting a block party celebrating the city's 160th Birthday! Celebrate the occasion with this free day of activities for kids, desserts provided by the City of Scranton, displays of historic Scranton artifacts and memorabilia, entertainment, and more! Its going to be a busy day in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, PA and we look forward to seeing you there!

We put in a good shift of outside track work at Brooks Mine Saturday extending the rail up and out of the mine. Looking...
04/13/2026

We put in a good shift of outside track work at Brooks Mine Saturday extending the rail up and out of the mine. Looking forward to opening day for the season in 2 weeks!!

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172 Runway Road
Tunkhannock, PA
18657

Telephone

+15707959190

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