[PRCo] Re: Jacksonville

[Edward Skuchas]

S&W would have designed the non-nuclear portion of the plant.  The  
nuclear side was designed by Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory of West  
Mifflin.  The nuclear side was essentially the Nautilus sub power  
plant spread out for better maintenance.  I worked on the last  
refueling when the light water breeder reactor was installed.  Its all  
now history all the way back to Jacksonville.
Ed
On Feb 14, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Schneider Fred wrote:

> Frank Pfuhler's postcards this time included a great old Jacksonville
> card.   I'm sending it for Mark and Jerry ... those two guys who
> deserted the north for the warmer climate.
> The rest of you can wish you were down there with the palm trees.
>
> For those of you from the north who are unfamiliar with Florida
> history, northern Florida has a much older history than places like
> Miami.   Even though it is eastern United States, Florida was not one
> of the original 13 colonies because Spain owned it at the time of the
> Revolution.  The following sentence is copied from Wikipedia and
> gives an idea of the earlier history of Jacksonville:  The settlement
> that became Jacksonville was founded in 1791 as Cowford because of
> its location at a narrow point in the river where cattle once
> crossed. In 1822, a year after the United States acquired Florida
> from Spain, the city was renamed for the first military governor of
> the Florida Territory, General Andrew Jackson, who would later be
> elected President of the United States.
>
> On the other hand, when you get down to Miami Beach, I remember an
> article we published in Headlights magazine talking about the new
> trolley line built in the 1920s when there was nothing there but sand
> and rattlesnakes and an attempt to develop that spit of land.   Coral
> Gables Rapid Transit, on the other side of Miami, was also a brand
> new trolley line in the 1920s built to serve a brand new community.
>
> By the way.   The streetcar company in Jacksonville was one of those
> Stone and Webster properties ... remember Stone and Webster Utilities
> of Boston ... the engineering and management company that employed
> Charles Oliver Birney who created a safety car?
>
> Now how the heck can I bring this back to Pittsburgh.   Oh yes.
> Stone and Webster designed the Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant.
> Close enough Derrick?    :-))))
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