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Originally Posted by Eric 951
Yes--and used in steel making--used to be lots of older coke ovens around SW PA. Frick was in the coke business prior to hooking up with Carnegie(and after their less than amicable parting as well)
old coke ovens
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We had a huge coke loading dock here at the port of Los Angeles... they would roll the train cars in one at a time and flip them upside down to dump them. As a kid it was quiet a spectacle, we would ride our bikes down to the docks to watch.