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Cortera describes it as a "Gray and Ductile Iron Foundary." The building no longer exists. Judging by the list of cars received, they were shipping all of their product with trucks by 1974.
Charles Geletzke Jr. Received six gon loads of scrap, two C&O covered hoppers with molding sand, two C&O hoppers with coke (X-DC) six days a week(M-Sat), and an occasional boxcar carrying foundry additives.
Ben Planck Hey CH, remember that BIG kick CF made? It was heading to the crossing. In order to stop the car I had to go up the ladder (A) run on top of the coke to reach the hand brake.on the other end(B)! That was train No. 454 with three GP9s.
Charles Geletzke Jr. BH: Yes, I do recall that. You were just like a cat covering ___! You definitely averted disaster!
Ben Planck Sure took the wind out me. Good thing we young at the time.
Charles Geletzke Jr. That was the only location that I ever received a personal injury during my entire working career...got a piece of steel in my eye in 1968.
Dan Meinhard You should have worked in the medical clinic there and see some of the injuries due to incompetence that occurred! When I would leave work, I would take the soot ladened uniform off in my laundry room and shower all that black soot / sand off if me. That was a filthy place to work! When did rail service end? What was the track arrangement?
I worked there for a day and a half
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My parents came to Michigan in 1966 or 67, he started working at foundry some time after. I don't know how long he stayed there but, my told me that he would come home filthy head to toe. He died of lung cancer at the age of 59
ReplyDeleteYes black lung cancer they call it my Dad also he came from the south to work their I remember as a child he would come home with burnt eyelashes and eyebrows yes his whole face was smutted with black coal I moved back to New Haven after being gone for decades it is now a clean brand new homes thousands of them people moving from all over the states to live in New Haven The Foundry was torn down about 20 years ago
DeleteDo you know who made the furnaces located in the foundry?
ReplyDeleteI worked there in 1999 as a mil Wright. It was brutal
ReplyDeleteSorry, millwright. I was in charge of oil and water also maintenance on the mold machines
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking as a child how terrible that place looked & wondered why anyone would work there. I recently did a brief job at the Ford Dearborn plant & checked out their foundry...same thought crossed my mind
ReplyDeleteI worked there in 1974 for about 2 months, the money was good but it sucked and parking was across the rail road tracks, I worked 2nd shift and on Fridays you had to be extra carful going to your car because the low life local bone heads would rob you of your pay, they never got me because i was ready for them (bang bang )
ReplyDeleteI'm 70 now hired in may of "74" twenty/Five and out! two the day!!! I retired may of "99" worked every department except electrical. Country INN and the Buffalow bar Emmet !! wife would not hang my undies. out when they were clean they were orange. cancer twice!! blind in one eye from a stroke, and still miserable but here ROCKY
ReplyDeleteGrinding room you could ware a Pair of gloves out in 20 min. you did not lay yore gloves down. knives always in pocket and most were packing but a fun place ta work!!! lived through it!! I met some real people!! and some that have my back.
ReplyDeleteStood at the Main gate looking a red hot castings you could feel the heat from them and this guy the gate guy his name was Russ. why i remember that i don't know but he said go home . I'm like what!! he said it's too!! hot ! soooo! I turn around and the two hundred people that were behind me just disappeared my first day on the job .second day now were having fun walk into a black fog the grinding room the firkin air was black and I mean that a fucking black fog!!!! this guy walked me too a spot a drinking fountain the water is orange an I'm like dam I have too do this and you have no idea what lies beyond a hard ass life still here!!
ReplyDeletePlease avoid f-bombs. So far this blog is family friendly, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Deletewas a hard life but still here!!
ReplyDeleteWorked there in Oct. 1973, on second shift left at lunch time and never returned, never got paid and didn't care, just glad to be out of there
ReplyDeleteThe only place I seen , saw black snow in the winter . sorry bout the f-bomb shop talk came back.
ReplyDeleteand yes still here all that time I spent there and can't find much info on the place . Tried to look up O" man Lamkin can't find any thing it was a small place at start. but he made it work' it was his life as far as I know. "he was there all day every day. I remember him coming throue the grinding room and shaking his cane at his foremen and dang if your a Hilo driver don't run over a cat you'll be on the street. oil sand core's whey back then, corn meal was used as a binder for oil sand cores , I saw three cat's get beat-up by a rat big rat!!! We even had a foundry dog he was cool he would only come to Snooks ,me or a another old guy, but he would only go too Snooks for touch. He was the foundry dog every one knew him. I was once was young (1974 till 99) 25 and out!!! still here out of spite
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