Re: (erielack) Flagg Coal #75

[walter smith <wsmith5957_@_yahoo.com>]

Thanks, Bruce...........FYI there was a Vulcan Iron Works shop in West Pittston on Exeter Ave. My dad worked there in 1941 - 42. The building - of red brick - was about a city block longEast to West and had suffered from a mine cavein so that halfway down the shopbay, there was a sag of about 1 foot so the overhead crane could only work in 1/2 the shop. I don't know if this was during my dads' time there. ABOUT END OF 1942, WE MOVED TO Philadelphia where dad worked for Wetinghouse during the war. What a trip that was.....on the good old Lehigh Valley in a train filled with sailors & soldiers. They gave my mom a seat in the coach, but dad took me to the last car where we soon observed the bald smokebox ofa big 2-8-2 dim its headlight as it smuggled up to the coupler.........then the fun began as the streamlined 4-6-2 on the front and the big freight engine a few feet away began working their hearts out blasting their way up to Mountaintop. Mom gave dad an
 earfull about taking a 5 year old just a few feet away from 'that thing' but I thought it was swell. It is such things that set us upon our pathways of life.
Regards to all,
Walter Smith
 

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 From: Bruce Ipe <bruceipe_@_gmail.com>
To: EL Mail List <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net> 
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Flagg Coal #75
  

Google "Vulcan Iron Works" and then check http://www.abebooks.com/ for Vulcan Iron
Works. There is a book 1913 Vulcan Locomotives and others for sale.

JB Ipe

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:47 PM, walter smith <wsmith5957_@_yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Great stuff, Gary........My dad worked at the 'Vulcan' in the 1930s. He was
> laid off from the Glen Alden shops in West Pittston, Pa. I never knew until
> recently what a part the Vulcan Iron Works played in Locomotive building. Is
> there a book on the Vulcan ????? Does anyone here on the LIST know??
>
> Regards,
> Walt Smith
>
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