Located off to the right of Mine St in the Austin Heights section of Old Forge it was the end terminal of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Austin Branch that originated at the Coxton Rail Yards.

The Austin breaker owned by Austin Moore, was built in 1891 for the Austin Coal Co. It began operations in 1892. It was an isolated breaker, with the Tunnel and Drifts located farther up the mountain above the Heights. The Austin Drifts No l and No 2 were connected to the breaker by a wooden trestle over one half mile long. The lower Tunnel was also used as a way to drain the mines of water and its track connected to the drift tracks at the end of the trestle.

Foundation remains of the mine office, dynamite shack, tunnel entrance, and fan house are on the left side of Mine St, below the cemetery. Higher up the hill above the office is the remains of a sheave wheel concrete foundation. This is from a slope located inside the mine between levels. The cable ran from a hoisting building near the tunnel entrance, and up over the sheave down to the inclined slope in the mine via a bore hole and pipe. The original office building for the breaker is still used as a resident home near the corner of Spring & Mine St.

It continued under the Austin Coal co until 1911 when it came under the operations of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co, and in 1927 was operated by the Raub Coal Company until 1932. In 1934 the Pine Coal Co operated it until 1938.

All totaled it produced 1,241,390 tons of coal.