[PRCo] Beehive Coke Oven Mileage

Edward H. Lybarger twg at pulsenet.com
Mon Mar 11 19:28:35 EST 2002


I'm in error, it turns out.  I inadvertantly measured a row of double block
ovens, so that was really 50 ovens in 814 lineal feet or 16.275 feet per
oven.  So in terms of "single-track oven-miles," there were 117.26, but
since probably half of all ovens were double-block, the actual number of
"route-oven-miles" comes to something like 87.92.  Still far short of the
track number, by about 70 miles.

Sorry for the goof,
Ed





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