Anthracite Breakers, 1990s

"Joe [Elliott] and I did . . . in 1992, we did the Huber Breaker for the Park Service. Joe did the interiors and I did the exteriors of the Huber Breaker, and then we switched around. And the Huber Breaker, and the Locust Summit Breaker, and the St. Nicholas Breaker are about the last three breakers left in the anthracite region. Big breakers, you know, there's some small ones still operating, but these are the big ones. They're vacant, and these are almost like the same monuments of the steel. They're almost like the headstones -- here lies the death of a great industry, of once-great industry. And they have all the machinery still, like up at St. Nicholas, and you could imagine the people that worked in St. Nicholas at one time, putting out all this coal, the noise, the water, the hustle and bustle. And now they're just silent, they're just monuments."