One can still get a job as a blacksmith!
But you may need to be related to a current jobholder.
They seem to be doing a lot of general machining as well.
In the printed article, there are two photographs and the title is "Craft of a bygone era keeps the T rolling". The T is the local metro transit authority.
The Boston Globe, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, page B1.
Joe Gwinn