Palestine Texas Union Pacific Car Shop was built 150 years ago and still in operation. They're in litigation trying to shut it down and contract the work out. They had a full machine shop and Blacksmith shop for many years but they shut them down. They loaded all that valuable machinery, forges, anvils and tooling into gondolas and shipped it off for scrap. The union has screwy rules for who does what. the machine work was done by maintenance men. The fab shop only does big steel work shearing, braking and welding. They can shear 3/4" HR.
