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 Posted - January 26 2025 : 4:44:46 PM
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My BOTW is this oil well. One of the commodities shipped by the Tabor and Waldo is crude oil. This came from a friend who built it for another friend of his who ended up not using it. I think it's probably a Campbell kit. I once saw a real one of these at the Drake's Well Museum south of Titusville, PA.
This is not Drake's well, but there was a variety of equipment on display, there.
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Posted - January 28 2025 : 07:55:42 AM
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There were so many of these in the area west of Pittsburgh back in the day. I might have to get one of those for nostalgias sake.
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Posted - January 28 2025 : 11:47:08 AM
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In high school, I took a history course called Industrial Revolution. Much of what we studied happened in Pennsylvania. When I took a vacation to Pennsylvania, it was kind of like driving through the textbook for that course. It's neat when places you think of as facts or events turn out to be real places where people still live, and things are still happening.
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Posted - January 28 2025 : 4:44:27 PM
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quote:In high school, I took a history course called Industrial Revolution. Much of what we studied happened in Pennsylvania. When I took a vacation to Pennsylvania, it was kind of like driving through the textbook for that course. It's neat when places you think of as facts or events turn out to be real places where people still live, and things are still happening.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - January 28 2025 : 11:47:08 AM
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The history you learned about I lived. I played in the ruins of the old coke ovens in an area where railroads, sometimes more than one, reached up almost every hollow. My dad and grandfather worked in the steel mills. We all lived through the boom times, and the collapse, and the depression that followed. As bad as this country's economy has been at times, Nothing in my lifetime has ever come close to the devastation of the 1980s. I was fortunate enough to have seen much of the rail lines in action, and to have ridden many of them. When you grow up around these things they seem like normal parts of the landscape, and you don't realize until much later what they represented.
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Posted - January 29 2025 : 12:53:18 AM
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