A railfanning picture with the Ehrenfeld patch and slate dump in the background. This was actor Charles Bronson's hometown. He was
still Charles Buchinski when he lived here with his Lithuanian parents. He even worked as a coal miner here when he was young.
An unusual style of company-built patch housing that I have not observed anywhere else. According to Joe, my source of Johnstown area coal history, Pennsylvania
Coal and Coke were the original owners of the Ehrenfeld town and coal mine. Later Betheleham Steel obtained the Ehrenfeld operation and operated it as their No. 38 mine before idling it around 1986.
The forlorn "Slovak Citizens Club" with a patch house and gob pile in the background.
What is probably a boarding house and four room miner's homes.
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