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Big in the post-war were many products produced for manufacturers that made things like wire insulation, vinyl, flooring, synthetic leathers, synthetic rubbers, etc.

There were manufacturers all over the country receiving cars like this.  More than we realize.

Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical, Pennsylvania Industrial Chemical Co., and USSteel’s Clairton Byproducts plant, in the Mon/Ohio River valley, were all shipping out chemicals used in “plastics”.  Hundreds of carloads a month.

Here’s Howard Fogg’s painting of the former….

Elden Gatwood