Bob and list: Not a definitive answer, since I pretty much always take photo captions with a grain or two of salt, but here's what I have: In "Trackside Around Allentown with Arthur Angstadt" by Jeremy Plant, [Morning Sun, 2001] pp. 82-83: "In the spring of 1958 . . . Metropolitan Edison was about to open a new coal-fired generating plant at Portland Pennsylvania . . ." This from the caption describing the two Reading T-1's used to provide stationary steam boiler service to heat chemicals for cleaning the plants new boilers. So, if one trusts this information, one could venture that Portland Met-Ed started up in, say, the summer of 1958. No mention of when construction started, nor of when fuel coal shipments started. HTH . . . Jim Harr Editor, From The Workbench ELHS #2934 From: Erielack1_@_aol.com Subject: (erielack) Portland Power Plant Question Does anyone know when construction started on the power plant at Portland and when it went into operation? Bob Stafford ------------------------------
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