[PRCo] Re: Beehive Coke Oven Mileage

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Still one hell of a lot of jobs and smoke when you go back to 1910 that
weren't there in 1960.



"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
> 
> 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