{"id":2931,"date":"2015-05-31T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:12:06","slug":"1980-02-11-letter-from-greenville-steel-car-company-to-senator-john-heinz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/1980-02-11-letter-from-greenville-steel-car-company-to-senator-john-heinz\/","title":{"rendered":"1980-02-11 Letter from Greenville Steel Car Company to Senator John Heinz"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2932\" style=\"width: 1270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2932 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1980-02-11-Letter-from-GSCC-to-Senator-John-Heinz.jpg\" alt=\"1980-02-11 Letter from GSCC to Senator John Heinz\" width=\"1270\" height=\"1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1980-02-11-Letter-from-GSCC-to-Senator-John-Heinz.jpg 3497w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1980-02-11-Letter-from-GSCC-to-Senator-John-Heinz-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1980-02-11-Letter-from-GSCC-to-Senator-John-Heinz-805x1024.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1980-02-11 Letter from GSCC to Senator John Heinz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu\/awweb\/awarchive?type=file&amp;item=488549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu\/awweb\/awarchive?type=file&amp;item=488549<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found at http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu\/awweb\/awarchive?type=file&amp;item=488549.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41,97],"tags":[128,36],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-mercer-county","tag-greenville","tag-greenville-steel-car-company"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-Lh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2934,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/a-pictorial-record-of-the-pittsburgh-forgings-company-and-the-greenville-steel-car-company-by-pittsburgh-forgings-company-1946\/","url_meta":{"origin":2931,"position":0},"title":"A pictorial record of the Pittsburgh Forgings Company and the Greenville Steel Car Company by Pittsburgh Forgings Company, 1946","author":"Karen","date":"May 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently found this nice booklet with some history of the Greenville Steel Car Company called, \"A pictorial record of the Pittsburgh Forgings Company and the Greenville Steel Car Company\" by Pittsburgh Forgings Company, published in 1946. 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