[radiohead]

The Amtrak line bisects the Sun refinery (not the prettiest entrance to Pennsylvania).

Strange what appeals to people. I used to love coming in by train and seeing the refinery. For a DC girl, then living in Philly, the refinery was something you'd never see in DC - some part of real America where people actually did real work for a living instead of the mind games that go on in DC.

[LibKill]

Strange what appeals to people. I used to love coming in by train and seeing the refinery.

Back in the early 1960's natural gas was worth very little in Texas. The oil fields around Houston had stand-pipes with permanent flares. The gas was burnt off while the oil was pumped out.

Seeing those flames was like coming home.

I guess the nation was a little short-sighted back then, but I can't blame anyone. Back then it seemed that Texas Oil was inexaustable.

[foreverfree]

For a good view of the Delaware Valley's industrial past and present, nothing that I have seen beats the view from the Amtrak (or in my case, SEPTA) train from Wilmington up to Philly. Particularly the 4-mile run between Edgemoor (home of a DuPont plant) and Claymont, DE (home of CitiSteel [formerly Phoenix Steel, formerly Worth Steel]) where the rail line is wedged between the DE River and and I-495/US 13. Although most of that stretch is residential (with a welfare motel here and there).

foreverfree