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

[John Swindler]

Is there a post office??  I'd detour there just to send postcards to Ed and Fred.  (:>)

Cheers
John



> From: hwandrews at wowway.com
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Stuff That's Gone- West Penn Railways
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:34:17 -0400
> 
> Hell is right here in Michigan.  No, I don't mean Detroit - there is a city
> named Hell just to the west of Detroit.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan)
> 
> I think many of us from the 'burgh had interesting summer jobs.  
> 
> I was a hooker at the Homestead works for a summer.  That's the guy on the
> floor who places the crane hooks to lift and move a load of steel - what do
> you guy thing?  
> 
> My toughest job was laboring in a Gray Iron Foundry in Lawrenceville.  One
> of the elevators for reclaiming the mold sand needed repair.  My job was to
> stand in the elevator pit and shovel the sand that fell off back onto the
> elevator belt.  Guess that was cheaper than doing the repairs....  and by
> the end of the summer I had a great set of biceps!  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of John
> Swindler
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 11:05 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Stuff That's Gone- West Penn Railways
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 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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