Each edition of Mountain Top Peaks area resident Joe Sainclair will share a photo or two with the paper’s readers.
This week, Sainclair stopped by the Ashley Planes.
The massive coal mining operation pulled coal cars up three separate inclined planes starting near Ashley at the bottom and ending in the Solomon’s Gap area of Mountain Top.
These unidentified ruins were part of that operation and are among a set of ruins located in the woods off route 309 just north of the Broadway Tavern.
Construction of the Planes began in the late 1830s and operations ceased in the 1940s.
Sainclair, a Crestwood graduate, teaches English at the school and has been an avid explorer of nature and abandoned ruins since high school.
He’s married and has two children in the Crestwood School District.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube at JTS Explorations.
