Talk:New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Ted Rapchick in topic Chemical plant in Coneville,PA
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New York Pennsylvania R R. edit
The track crossed our farm in Coneville,PA.
My dad told of unloading coal cars @ the chemical plant in Coneville,PA for $3. per car.
The family moved to the farm in 1920, so it would hav been between then & the shutting down of the line in 1935.
I was born in 1937 & growing up would many times find railroad track spikes in our fields. Ted Rapchick (talk) 21:36, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Chemical plant in Coneville,PA edit
The plant was adjacent to our farm property and left a good bit of waste upon closing in approximately 1935. (No E P A in those days).
One summer we couldn’t account for one of our heard of young stock that grazed in a pasture apart from our dairy herd. The next summer we stumbled upon the remains of the young heifer that had broken through the barbed wire fence & wandered into a “tar pit “ left by the closed chemical plant & could not extricate herself. All that remained was bones & its hide. What a way to die! Ted Rapchick (talk) 21:55, 21 May 2020 (UTC)