[PRCo] Re: Stuff That's Gone- West Penn Railways

[Dennis F Cramer]

Great stuff.  If you go the coke oven section and then select Shoaf, you 
will see a short film featuring coke production.  This is very similar (our 
coke pulling process was different) to where I worked at Carpentertown Coal 
& Coke (Sharon Steel) facility on Scrubgrass Creek in Armstrong County 
during the summers of 1973 & 74.  Yes, there were still beehive ovens in 
production and my college friends who saw it from the top of the hill at 
night referred to me working in "hell."  They could not believe such a place 
existed.

I made $6,000.00 in 2 summers.  My undergraduate degree cost me about 
$10,000.00.  Other jobs provided the rest of the money and I graduated debt 
free, a life style I still attempt to maintain.  (No wonder my credit score 
is only 15 points from perfect.)

          Dennis F. Cramer
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1