[PRCo] Re: People_--_Scenery

[Fred Schneider]

Amen to Dennis.   Strings so long that the aggregate of all those  
strings of ovens were longer than the miles of track that West Penn  
ran.   It  wasn't called the Coke Region for nothing.


On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

> 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
>
>
>