Right Now
63°
Clear
  • Humidity: 45%
  • Cloud Coverage: 38%
  • Wind: 16 mph
  • UV Index: 0 Low
  • Sunrise: 06:06:48 AM
  • Sunset: 07:53:10 PM

Today

A very early shower or thunderstorm; otherwise, turning out mainly clear, breezy, and much cooler.

Tonight

A very early shower or thunderstorm; otherwise, turning out mainly clear, breezy, and much cooler.

Tomorrow

Partly sunny, brisk, and cool; winds gust 30-35mph.

In the early 1870s the struggling Bethlehem Iron Company- later Steel- was attempting to make the technological transition from iron to steel rails, but was also in competition with cheaper foreign rails, so they went to Republicans in Congress to help them out with a piece of legislation that is much in the news today.