[PRCo] Re: Frequency of Service

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Jerry:
>
> Cleveland may be coming back but the whole area took a big hit.
> Cleveland (steel) , Akron (tires) , New Castle (steel) , Pittsburgh
> (steel) , Donora (steel) , Washington (Steel) , Latrobe (steel) ,

Washington had molybdenum roasters, also. When did those appear?

> Johnstown (Bethlehem Steel mostly) , Altoona (Pennsylvania RR shops

Johnstown lost USS before Bethlehem, though Bethlehem was in a world of 
hurt before that. The promise of a continuous caster looked like it might 
keep things in Johnstown a while but reading suggests the flood was used 
an an excuse to ditch the project when they realized the mills there were 
mostly too old and too small to support it.

> losts thousands of jobs) , Connellsville (mines),

Some of the ovens were closer to Connellsville than Uniontown (Leisenring, 
for instance)

> Uniontown (mines and coke ovens),

And later the Fruehauf plant...

> Steubenville, East Liverpool, Rochester (Kodak and
> the General Motors parts plant).   And I don't think it's anywhere
> near over yet.

Don't forget Monessen.

Heck, Clairton kept its coke works, and still lost.