Chucky Porter dead

[JCB1977]

Start the thread. We could examine the topic in more detail.

[Stroccos]

was he in witsec at all? Also is it illegal to expose someone who is in witsec? AKA give there current whereabouts.

[JCB1977]

He was not in WITSEC. Here is his obituary by Torsten Ove, longtime Pittsburgh OC reporter:


http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/ ... 1610120188

[phatmatress777]

Every northern industrial city looks like those pictures now thanks to NAFTA and crooked politicians,Ohio is the same way and it is sad cause alot of those jobs were decent paying blue collar jobs,my Dad and Grandfather both had jobs like those until they moved across the border.

Damn right... Originally started with regan and trickle down economics


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[Angelo Santino]

Every northern industrial city looks like those pictures now thanks to NAFTA and crooked politicians,Ohio is the same way and it is sad cause alot of those jobs were decent paying blue collar jobs,my Dad and Grandfather both had jobs like those until they moved across the border.

Damn right... Originally started with regan and trickle down economics


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The decline of the Penn Railroad Company in the 60's didn't help matters much either. It's really hard to believe but it was the Apple of it's day and the first company to be internationally traded on. It employed over 200,000 people. This was before the USA had a highway system so getting anywhere or sending goods long distance in the American NE you used the rail road system. And going back in time further, construction of these railroads lead to settlements, some become towns while others vanished but it's safe to say the RR system shaped the civil and demographic layouts of western PA.

[phatmatress777]

Every northern industrial city looks like those pictures now thanks to NAFTA and crooked politicians,Ohio is the same way and it is sad cause alot of those jobs were decent paying blue collar jobs,my Dad and Grandfather both had jobs like those until they moved across the border.

Damn right... Originally started with regan and trickle down economics


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The decline of the Penn Railroad Company in the 60's didn't help matters much either. It's really hard to believe but it was the Apple of it's day and the first company to be internationally traded on. It employed over 200,000 people. This was before the USA had a highway system so getting anywhere or sending goods long distance in the American NE you used the rail road system. And going back in time further, construction of these railroads lead to settlements, some become towns while others vanished but it's safe to say the RR system shaped the civil and demographic layouts of western PA.

Yes there are thousands and thousands of miles of tracks here you should come up sometime and explore lots of interesting things here


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[Angelo Santino]

Every northern industrial city looks like those pictures now thanks to NAFTA and crooked politicians,Ohio is the same way and it is sad cause alot of those jobs were decent paying blue collar jobs,my Dad and Grandfather both had jobs like those until they moved across the border.

Damn right... Originally started with regan and trickle down economics


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The decline of the Penn Railroad Company in the 60's didn't help matters much either. It's really hard to believe but it was the Apple of it's day and the first company to be internationally traded on. It employed over 200,000 people. This was before the USA had a highway system so getting anywhere or sending goods long distance in the American NE you used the rail road system. And going back in time further, construction of these railroads lead to settlements, some become towns while others vanished but it's safe to say the RR system shaped the civil and demographic layouts of western PA.

Yes there are thousands and thousands of miles of tracks here you should come up sometime and explore lots of interesting things here


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I considered moving there to help with research but I can't take the cold and the building and layout is depressing to me. I still should visit, I'd like to travel from Altoona to Pittsburgh down to Uniontown to Cannonsburg up to Swissvale, Sharon, New Castle into Youngstown, Warren, Kent, Akron and Cleveland. I'd need to hire a guide because I'm sure the neighborhoods have changed since their 1910 census records, lol. When we speak of Pittsburgh we can't speak of that city alone because the connections socially went all through the state. The railroads have much to do with that.

[Pogo The Clown]

Too bad the big oil companies and the trucking unions helped kill the rail roads in this country. Thanks to them shipping switched to those giant big rigs that ware out our roads, increase pollution and waste tons of fuel.


Pogo

[Angelo Santino]

Too bad the big oil companies and the trucking unions helped kill the rail roads in this country. Thanks to them shipping switched to those giant big rigs that ware out our roads, increase pollution and waste tons of fuel.


Pogo

That's true but that's the same as saying that the iphone killed the landline. Starting in 1956 the interstate national highway system provided employment to those with little or no educational background. Railroads declined with the increase in new methods of travel- long distance driving or by air, but never truly died out, there's just no mass employment opportunities like there once was- mostly due to modernization.

[FriendofHenry]

@Chris Christie - I'll be glad to give you the grand tour of Youngstown and I'll even spring for lunch or dinner

[Pogo The Clown]

Too bad the big oil companies and the trucking unions helped kill the rail roads in this country. Thanks to them shipping switched to those giant big rigs that ware out our roads, increase pollution and waste tons of fuel.

That's true but that's the same as saying that the iphone killed the landline. Starting in 1956 the interstate national highway system provided employment to those with little or no educational background. Railroads declined with the increase in new methods of travel- long distance driving or by air, but never truly died out, there's just no mass employment opportunities like there once was- mostly due to modernization.

The difference is that long distance shipping by rail is faster, safer and more cost effective than by truck. It was just that the oil companies and the trucking unions had more sway with the politicians so they got priority while our rail road infrastructure was left to rot away.


Pogo

[FriendofHenry]

Too bad the big oil companies and the trucking unions helped kill the rail roads in this country. Thanks to them shipping switched to those giant big rigs that ware out our roads, increase pollution and waste tons of fuel.

That's true but that's the same as saying that the iphone killed the landline. Starting in 1956 the interstate national highway system provided employment to those with little or no educational background. Railroads declined with the increase in new methods of travel- long distance driving or by air, but never truly died out, there's just no mass employment opportunities like there once was- mostly due to modernization.

The difference is that long distance shipping by rail is faster, safer and more cost effective than by truck. It was just that the oil companies and the trucking unions had more sway with the politicians so they got priority while our rail road infrastructure was left to rot away.


Pogo

Maybe Warren Buffett knew what he was doing when he bought his railroad now that the LCN is mostly a memory?

[Angelo Santino]

@Chris Christie - I'll be glad to give you the grand tour of Youngstown and I'll even spring for lunch or dinner

You know, I might be leaving the country indefinitely in a few months, if possible I may take a trip there and meet up with you and Phat, perhaps JCB can borrow his balls back from his wife and fly in for a weekend. If Hailbritain (I never woulda guessed he from that area with that handle) and Strocco want to meet up that's cool too. But who the fuck am I kidding, it's most likely not gonna happen as I am in no financial position to at the moment as illegitimate children are not cheap.

[phatmatress777]

@Chris Christie - I'll be glad to give you the grand tour of Youngstown and I'll even spring for lunch or dinner

You still owe me lunch [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji57][emoji57][emoji57]


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[phatmatress777]

@Chris Christie - I'll be glad to give you the grand tour of Youngstown and I'll even spring for lunch or dinner

You know, I might be leaving the country indefinitely in a few months, if possible I may take a trip there and meet up with you and Phat, perhaps JCB can borrow his balls back from his wife and fly in for a weekend. If Hailbritain (I never woulda guessed he from that area with that handle) and Strocco want to meet up that's cool too. But who the fuck am I kidding, it's most likely not gonna happen as I am in no financial position to at the moment as illegitimate children are not cheap.

That would be awesome you and I have been friends on these forums for years now it would be great to meet you and the other fine folks you mentioned!!!


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