Ken, thanks for the photographs. The bridge looks wonderful. Keep on the good work and publishing the photographs. Greetings Harald BTW: all the very best for...
Dear Group, Since there has been discussion over the years of the various mills and locomotives, I thought the group might be interested in the following list...
... the ... Association ... ton ... Porter ... Porter ... for ... Did the list include Cleveland area company called Upson Nut & Bolt (Bourne Fuller)? They...
The estate of Bethlehem Steel was dissolved at 11:59 PM on December 31, 2003. The following is the article from the Baltimore Sun May it rust in peace. Bruce K...
Bruce E. Kettunen
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Jan 2, 2004 3:51 pm
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Hi Group, I have a book called "Portraits in Steel", published by Cornell University Press in 1993. It is about the Buffalo area steel mills and the workers....
In Dean's book (Cyclopedia) he talks about Carbon Chips - I've built the tower but what sort of car made deliveries to it? I assume it was a hopper of some...
I hope this message is not in violation of group rules but would like to invite the members to join a group for all things Chicago railroad related. I am a TV...
Hello all,i am from central ohio,in my 50's and am interested in mills,steel,paper etc.Also generating plants,boilers,turbines etc.In the way of mobile ...
Talked to the rigging ompany today and they may be able to schedule moving some of the large Tod Engine parts to the museum site this week. One half of the...
a freind of mine just gave me an excellent find from his local secondhand book store - a 750 page book called "iron and steel works of the world - 6th edition"...
Dean Freytag had a copy of the Allentown, PA sunday paper sent to me - "The Morning Call" for Sunday, December 14, 2003. Inside is a 120 page special that...
i just looked up this book on the metal bulletin website and the current (15th) edition is yours for just UKŁ 595.00 / US$ 875.00 - bit of a hike from the...
USS announced that because of a problem at a supplier's (Pinnacle) coal mine, they have to cut back their production of coke at Clairton Coke Works. They are...
Bruce E. Kettunen
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Jan 7, 2004 3:47 pm
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I guess that the world market could really use the 650,000 tons of coke that we made up here in Lackawanna before the Steel went belly up and shut us down-...
... Right! Isn't that crazy? Three coke plants are currently in the course of demolishment in Belgium (Marly, Tertre, Zeebrugge), an other one just diminished...
From today's Steelworks News Digest by the AISI. Much of the equipment at the former Geneva Steel works may be sold to a Chinese concern for relocation there....
Bruce E. Kettunen
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Jan 8, 2004 4:42 pm
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One can not argue with success.Capitalism or Communism. Sour grapes make bad wine. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
US is not alone in asset sales to China. PRC has purchased state of the art coking operations in Europe for shipment / reuse in PRC. What will not be a cash...
As a blue-collar,family man, union man and EX-Bethlehem Steel employee nothing peeves me off more than reading or seeing companies shut their doors and move...
100% AGREED ! SAVE AMERICA... DUMP gw SHRUB !!!!!! Mike Clifford <mbcliff11@...> wrote: As a blue-collar,family man, union man and EX-Bethlehem Steel ...
... Avoiding my soap box, my job is pro labor, so I will keep my comments (and the comments of the workers and even business owners I come into contact with)...
I have a video tape I recorded of the dismantling of the BOFs at Kaiser off of the Japanese TV version of American PBS. They even used Chinese workers to...
I am a TV news photographer in Chciago and we belong to an IBEW local and the only thing that makes me feel better is that this week when Fannie Mae Candy...
And of course, building our trains which are mostly produced in...communist China. What we as Americans don't realize, is that the Chinese use the same...
IM not worried about China. What about the jobs that have moved back from China? Our biggest customer moved there production to China two years ago. Id finally...
In a message dated 1/8/2004 1:53:52 PM Central Standard Time, jackbridge49@... writes: One can not argue with success.Capitalism or Communism. Sour grapes...