[PRCo] Re: People_--_Scenery

[Dennis F. Cramer]

I highly doubt any of the coke ovens in the Connellsville coal fields looked 
anything like:

http://www.sceneryexpress.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PL6100  --  for  WP 
models!!!

the time West Penn came along.  There would have been a few abandoned ovens 
here and there, but the major coke producers were using beehives in long 
strings.

The experience of working at a beehive plant during the college years left 
me with a love of the smell of burning coal.  Yes, there were beehive ovens 
in Armstrong County in the early 70's and that work helped me pay for the 
vast majority of my undergraduate degree myself and I left college with 0 
debt.  It also gave me lots of experience of working with 600 volt DC 
trolley wire.  We ran all of our power tools, except the welding truck, off 
the overhead.

Dennis Fred Cramer
     Trombone