History & local legend
Eureka No. 40 was a Berwind-White coal mine in the Scalp Level area near Windber. Built in 1902 and served by a Pennsylvania Railroad branch, it belonged to a landscape where mine numbers could identify entire neighborhoods: residents could simply say they lived at “40.”
The site's supernatural tradition places a miner on the old branch tracks after dark, apparently continuing his night shift. Inside nearby buildings, visitors have described footsteps following their own, although nobody could be found behind them. Barking was also heard without a visible dog.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Somerset / Windber / Mine 40, night miner, footsteps and dogs
- Historic American Engineering Record, Eureka No. 40, Berwind-White builder, construction and site setting
- Historic American Engineering Record, Town of Windber, local use of numbers for mine communities
- OpenStreetMap, former Pennsylvania Railroad Eureka Branch No. 40
- Library of Congress, photograph of exit portal of upper drift, facing south
