[PRCo] Re: PRC 4398

[Fred Schneider]

Did EHL ever tell you the story of one of Frick's lieutenants being confronted by local people who were angry / upset with all the smoke?  He gave the explanation that they should be happy with the smoke; that it goes up in the air and then the rain washes it into
their gardens and fertilizes them.   Ed could tell you who the man was.  Bullshit always rises to meet the demand!   fws

dfc1 at alltel.net wrote:

> Try living in the coke region.  It used to take 2-3 months after the summer job at beehive coke ovens to be able to blow my nose and not have my tissue turn black.  Imagine what it was like to spend a lifetime working the laury or the leveler on top of those ovens.
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> DF Cramer
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> > From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <Robert.Dietrich at unisys.com>
> > Date: 2004/12/01 Wed AM 08:35:43 CST
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC 4398
> >
> >
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: ken Josephson. . .
> > >
> > >Several plant employees noted that this is a common fate for steel
> > objects
> > >around the plant. They get a bit more rain than we do in the valley,
> > but >the
> > >employees attribute the rusting to sulfur dioxide and steam emissions
> > >mixing
> > >in the immediate area.
> > >
> > >This could be compared to what the Pittsburgh Low Floors were exposed
> > to, >as
> > >you noted above.
> > >
> > >Makes me wonder what those power plant employee's lungs look like....
> > >
> > >K.
> >
> > They probably look like our lungs after living in da 'burgh all those
> > years.  I sure hope they've (lungs) cleaned themselves out.
> >
> >
> >