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

[John Swindler]

Very interesting Dennis

My father once commented that flying over the Allegheny Mtns. towards Pittsburgh at night - my guess would be 1945 -  was like descending into Hades. 

As for college - I was more fortunate - didn't spend two summers in 'hell'.  Instead spent summer of 1968 and 1969 as a full time temporary CTA bus driver, and achieved similar results.  Suspect many are glad they went to college then, instead of now.

Isn't Hell north of Georgetown in the Cayman Islands???

Cheers
John


> From: trombone at windstream.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Stuff That's Gone- West Penn Railways
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:24:49 -0400
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> 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
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