[PRCo] Re: Steam and steel mills

[Fred Schneider]

Hard to believe Homestead USS is a shopping center now.

On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:

> 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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