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Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
SPG3 arrives in Scranton, Pennsylvania on October 6, 2014 close to sunset as the camera is cloud bombed with M636 3643 leading the return trip, the train is seen passing the University of Scranton in the Electric City. Before the day's end, the crew will deliver the train to CP's Taylor yard.
A short Pocono Ordinary works upgrade out of Scranton, passing a few long-dormant signals that probably date back to the Lackawanna era. The train will stop at Nay Aug siding to pick up some additional grain loads before heading east.
DL PO-74:
DL 3643 M636 (ex-CP 4743)
All the gothic children come out and play here. Ouji boards, whispering enchantments of yore, smoking clove cigarettes, ox-blood ten hole Doc's, slashing Children of Bodom in their forearms, all that cool stuff. Back in the early 90's my buddy G called them "Flour Children." cause the girls used to put white paint on their faces to look corpsier and saddier. I bet you liked Nitzer Ebb and Front 242.
Here's a late Station Saturday offering of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey Railroad freight house in Scranton. A fun anecdote for tonight is that I'm writing this caption drinking a beer and sititng in the lobby of the former Delaware and Lackawanna Western Railroad depot after walking back from dinner and beers at Coopers Brewery and restaurant built around the bones of the former Erie Railroad depot in this legendary railroad town!
Built between 1891 and 1893 this building and an ornate wooden passenger depot across Lackawanna Avenue (out of frame at right) were built by the CNJ at its western terminus 192 miles from it Jersey City terminal. The passenger station burned to the ground in 1910 and was replaced with a modest structure that served until the early 1950s but this freight station remained in railroad use until 1972 when the CNJ retrenched out of the state of Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley Railroad took over its properties. It was used by a local tucking company as a warehouse for years after and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 but is vacant and unused today.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Friday September 12, 2025
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
In 1900 when Miss Mary Eliza Scranton offered the Madison Library Association the use of a new, completely furnished, library building which she had built on the corner of Wall Street adjoining her family’s old home. The offer was accepted, books moved in, and in 1901 the Association dissolved and the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library was incorporated.
The original library building was designed by Henry Bacon, an eminent New York architect who later designed the Lincoln Memorial. A New York firm of “contracting designers” was in charge of the architecture, construction, decorations and furnishings, the total cost of which was about $30,000.
The library was added to in 1989 and again in 2020 (along Wall St.)
(Photo Credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, British Rail and British Leyland undertook a program to develop a new railbus. One prototype of five different designs in the Leyland Experimental Vehicle (LEV) program were built, including one, LEV 2, specifically for export to the US. According to the website traintesting.com, the LEV’s “combine the worst features of rail and bus”. LEV 2 was conveyed to the FRA, and somehow ended up making an appearance on the Lackawanna Valley Railroad in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The unattractive car still exists at the Connecticut Trolley Museum.
In 1900 when Miss Mary Eliza Scranton offered the Madison Library Association the use of a new, completely furnished, library building which she had built on the corner of Wall Street adjoining her family’s old home. The offer was accepted, books moved in, and in 1901 the Association dissolved and the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library was incorporated.
The original library building was designed by Henry Bacon, an eminent New York architect who later designed the Lincoln Memorial. A New York firm of “contracting designers” was in charge of the architecture, construction, decorations and furnishings, the total cost of which was about $30,000.
The library was added to in 1989 and again in 2020 (along Wall St.)
(Photo Credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Hearing about the end of DL trains regularly operating to Portland got me to start digging into my pictures from my trip to Alco country in the fall of 2016. Here's PT98 getting ready to leave Scranton behind 3643-3642-3000-2045 and a decent length train.
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Connecting the former DL&W line to Carbondale with the Delaware & Hudson line that runs along the Lackawanna river is what the DL refers to as the "hill track." Seen from the Linden Street overpass, a local job is bringing hoppers from Green Ridge, a few miles east, up the hill to interchange with CP at Taylor yard.
After picking up loads for Mitsubishi Chemicals, Reading & Northern PISB heads back to service them. This job is a bit unique in that in order to access the two customers at the end of the branch, they have to traverse a level switchback, which they are seen traversing in this shot. 10-20-21
A view taken from Bridge 60 Tower of a portion of Scranton Yard as an ex Nickel Plate Berkshire rolls into town. I getta kick outta the size of that smokestack on the shanty next to the Vermont Railway piggyback. Howard Kent Jr. Scranton Pa. 07-22-1973
CNJ/EL pool train ES-99 is rounding the east leg of the wye at High Bridge, NJ as they begin their slow trek up the branch to Lake Junction.
At Lake Junction, the train would pull onto the old Wharton & Northern before shoving onto the EL mainline. Taken on January 22, 1972 by George Berisso.
4/2023 - Scranton, PA
Rahway Valley RR #15 is a 1916 Baldwin. They have it posed with a short freight.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
Two ex Erie locos are sitting outside the Conrail Diesel Shop in Scranton Pa. on 10-06-1977. GP7 5978 is ex Erie 1240 and NW2 9234 is ex Erie 427. Howard Kent Jr. photo.
Just one more from this great location.
Reading and Northern train YJPI (Yard Job PIttson) was making a morning run up to NS' Taylor yard to set out and pick up nearly 50 cars to take back to Pittston. On the way there they paused to work the Mariotti Building Products at MP 3 on R&N's Scranton Branch (the former Lackawanna Bloomsburg Line). Having finished up there they are back on the move north twisting along near MP 3.4 just north of the Moosic Road crossing. Taylor is about two and a half twisting winding miles ahead.
Leading northbound is GP38-2 2011 blt. Oct. 1976 as high hood SOU 5184. On the rear end of their train to facilitate the switch move was their other unit GP39RN 2530 blt. Jun. 1963 as a GP30 numbered ATSF 1281.
Old Forge, Pennsylvania
Saturday September 5, 2020
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
R&N PISB charges past the former station at Old Forge PA along the former DL&W heading for customers in the Keyser Valley area on the west side of Scranton. We're near milepost 3 despite the Conrail and DL&W mileposts here stating otherwise. Also, why is there a lawnmower to the right of the mileposts? This was attempt No. 4 at this angle.
In this R&N storyline today we'll go after what I showed up looking for. The GP38-2's painted in the Reading Co's last scheme which was applied to their GP39-2 and GP40-2's.
I think I photographed 9 or 10 trains on the Scranton Branch during the trip. I fought clouds for much of it, though never on cloudy days. The branch is fantastic for photographers. In it's 7 or 8 miles between Pittston and Taylor there's side-by-side running with the former Lehigh Valley, a flyover, former DL&W mileposts, a through truss bridge, a former station, a cut, an S curve, and an iconic easy to do elevated shot. Traffic and timing are very consistent, Monday through Friday the PISB (Pittston-Scranton Branch) is pulling into Taylor between 830 and 9am. Weekends are a little different with the PISB doing double duty and handling the interchange with NS at Taylor. On these days they also usually split their power instead of keeping both engines on the head end. During my stay this job was the nearly exclusive domain of a pair of the RDG painted* GP38-2's.
The surprise was the Pittston yard job. When I showed up to Pittston for the first time since probably 2006 (Pittston back then had been my only experience with the R&N) I wasn't surprised to see a Caboose there. I was surprised to see it used the next day and then absolutely flabbergasted when I figured out that the normal move for the yard job was to shove the entire way up the Scranton Branch to Taylor! Every now and then there will be an exception where supposedly the hitch a ride on the rear of the PISB up there but it didn't happen while I was there watching (Though once or twice I would see it mentioned in John Cudo's post to the Friends of the Reading and Northern Railroad Facebook group).
Anyway usually late morning the YJPI1 shoves to Taylor Caboose-first and returns with it tucked in between the locomotives and the inbound interchange. The line orientation is more east-west than north south so the PISB is aiming into low sun in the morning and coming back towards the sun in the afternoon. The yard job makes itself a mid-day affair.