[PRCo] Steam and steel mills

[Bob Rathke]

I may have sent the attached photo before, but it depicts the best of 
several worlds identified by Derrick - Pittsburgh, steel mills and steam 
locomotives.
I took the photo from the hill in Rankin, lookling south toward the U.S. 
Steel Homestead Works.  The train is on the P&LE bridge across the 
Monongahela River. Note the diesel switching ingot cars on the far shore.

Riding B&O passenger trains on the P&LE line (the B&O had trackage rights on 
the P&LE from New Casatle to McKeesport) at night provided an extra treat. 
They passed right through the USS mill complex, and you could see the glow 
of molten steel in several of the mill buildings.  The view was even better 
from one of the B&O's dome cars.

Bob 2/9/08

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:08 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: old pictures from Frank Novak


> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
>> Maybe that is because I think some of the mountain states are so
>> overwhelmingly beautiful.   I've spent a lot of time in Montana,
>> Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Alaska and have never lost my desire
>> to return.   It's the scenery that is just as if not more captivating
>> as those diminutive trains.
>
> See, that's how I feel about the Edgar Thomson shot from East Pittsburgh
> :)
>
> A friend of mine, incidentally, got me into this years AIST tour of Edgar
> Thomson, so at least last I will get to see the inside of an active steel
> mill, 2 days before I turn 35.
>
> Would that I got to see J&L.
> 


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