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V
05-20-2006, 06:41 PM
...since 1962, and no one is currently trying to stop it, and its also said it will continue to burn for at least another century, maybe more. check it out.
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

that site also has other links to some interesting things.

project89
05-20-2006, 06:49 PM
heh thats like wierd nj site
http://www.weirdnj.com/

calhoon
05-20-2006, 06:51 PM
weird.

Ian
05-20-2006, 08:17 PM
I dont know how you could put out a coal vein thats burning underground. eventually it will all burn out and the ground will collapse.

Jersey_TA
05-20-2006, 09:45 PM
Yeah, I've driven by that many times on my way to my friend's house in sunbury, PA. There are only a few buildings left in that town where people still live there.

Brando56894
05-21-2006, 02:43 AM
thats pretty cool

deadtrend1
05-21-2006, 08:29 AM
guy at work was telling me about that town. Interesting

Firebird67dude
05-21-2006, 11:53 AM
I've been there. It was pretty cool.

Tsar
05-21-2006, 12:40 PM
silent hill....

Pampered-Z
05-21-2006, 01:22 PM
I live 12 miles from there. It's very strange as over the years you drive thru the town and see houses and tree and such slowly sink into the ground. You can go there and walk around and in some areas your feet start feeling REAL HOT! On cold morning it's like a SCI-FI movie as the steam comes off the ground.

Tsar
05-21-2006, 01:25 PM
I live 12 miles from there. It's very strange as over the years you drive thru the town and see houses and tree and such slowly sink into the ground. You can go there and walk around and in some areas your feet start feeling REAL HOT! On cold morning it's like a SCI-FI movie as the steam comes off the ground.
post directions, i wanna go there! :lol:

V
05-21-2006, 02:11 PM
NJFBOA road trip!... id visit there, but not with my car actually in the town, lol, but imagine the cool photoshoot pics you could get

Dark_Knight7096
05-21-2006, 03:16 PM
I'd do the road trip, and agreed, could make for GREAT photo-ops!

Tsar
05-21-2006, 03:18 PM
yea i was thinking about taking pics there, so um..direction?

camaroracer1992
05-21-2006, 05:38 PM
that centralia place i go 4 wheeling there!! i have pics of smoke ciming out tof the gtround

Pampered-Z
05-21-2006, 07:14 PM
NJFBOA road trip!... id visit there, but not with my car actually in the town, lol, but imagine the cool photoshoot pics you could get

AN NJFBOA road trip would be awesome! Bring the car! There is actaully allot to do in the area, Numidia Dragway is one mile from my house in the other direction.

http://www.numidiadragway.net/

It actaully not hard to get to, take 78 west to Rt61, Take 61 north until you
hit Rt 42

Savage_Messiah
05-21-2006, 07:24 PM
I'm in!!!

camaro2you
05-21-2006, 07:57 PM
i was bout to say silent hill **** to lol

enRo
05-21-2006, 09:29 PM
I've heard this somewhere else before, but didnt think it was true. I guess it is? Huh ...

Tru2Chevy
05-22-2006, 03:59 PM
Yea, I've heard about this and seen that website before. Nice to see some of the new pics.

John, I didn't realize that you lived that close. All that toxic gas coming up from the ground kind of explains a few things....

- Justin

Rich189
05-22-2006, 04:04 PM
im def in for a roadtrip one weekend

Brando56894
05-22-2006, 04:29 PM
yea that would be pretty sweet to go there

Savage_Messiah
05-22-2006, 04:34 PM
he said one weekend not this weekend...

Brando56894
05-22-2006, 04:35 PM
yea i just noticed that

Savage_Messiah
05-22-2006, 04:44 PM
lay off the cheeba

Brando56894
05-22-2006, 04:44 PM
havent done that in a few days, and usually only at night... you should know that.....