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It's been several months since I've encountered Harold. I'm happy to report he is still living the good life and is busy stocking up for winter. I parked down the street from his hang out on Pine Street, and when I got out of the car there he was sitting under the car behind me with a peanut in his mouth. By the time I walked to my destination and past the front security for the building he was back at the window for more peanuts. He seems to be a little thinner than last fall, but perhaps his escapades through the building keep him trim and lean.
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Taken with Eastman Kodak Co. Vision 3 500T/5219 500 ASA Tungsten balanced film. Film by The Film Photography Project, developing and scanning by Rapid Photo Imaging Center Inc.
Many were the times I wanted Kodachrome to do things that it didn't want to do.
Then there were the times I did what Kodachrome wanted to do such as this morning sun shot. Definitely, we were in a love/hate relationship.
I was getting ready for a day of fun with one of the USA's great 4-8-4's running and do so on a mainline railroad, the Lackawanna.
Milwaukee Road S-3 4-8-4 No. 261 Steamtown, Scranton, PA. 10-15-1995, Nikon FM, Kodachrome, Nikon LS-50 Scanner, Vue-Scan software, processed in Lightroom
Seen in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
A classic D&H brick freight station in Scranton (at Wyoming at Gibson) and team track was still served by rail during my 10-9-05 visit. Looking on Google Earth, it appears to all still be there today,
The Lackawanna Coal Mine is a museum and retired coal mine located in McDade Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Visitors board a mine car and descend the #190 slope into the Clark Vein of coal. At the foot of the shaft the visitors begin an hour-long guided tour through the main gangway of the mine and stop at various points to discuss different aspects of the anthracite mining industry. Visitors then leave the Clark Vein via a rock tunnel and stop in the Dunmore #1 Vein. Once in the Dunmore #1, transportation and mining in a fault room are discussed. As the tour continues down the rock tunnel the group stops at the peg shanty to meet the fire boss and discuss his role in mining operations. The tour then continues on to the Dunmore #2 Vein and discusses working in small veins of coal, air doors and their role in ventilation, door boys or nippers, second means of exit from the mine and company store. The tour concludes where the miners ended their final days within the mine in November 1966.
The tour is open seven days a week from April 1 to November 30 and is closed only on Thanksgiving Day. Temperatures within the mine are around a constant of 50–54 °F (10–12 °C).
Adjacent to the mine tour is the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum with exhibits on Northeastern Pennsylvania's mining and industrial history. The address of the mine is at Bald Mountain Rd, Scranton, PA 18504.
The information above comes from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackawanna_Coal_Mine
The Lackawanna Coal Mine is a museum and retired coal mine located in McDade Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Visitors board a mine car and descend the #190 slope into the Clark Vein of coal. At the foot of the shaft the visitors begin an hour-long guided tour through the main gangway of the mine and stop at various points to discuss different aspects of the anthracite mining industry. Visitors then leave the Clark Vein via a rock tunnel and stop in the Dunmore #1 Vein. Once in the Dunmore #1, transportation and mining in a fault room are discussed. As the tour continues down the rock tunnel the group stops at the peg shanty to meet the fire boss and discuss his role in mining operations. The tour then continues on to the Dunmore #2 Vein and discusses working in small veins of coal, air doors and their role in ventilation, door boys or nippers, second means of exit from the mine and company store. The tour concludes where the miners ended their final days within the mine in November 1966.
The tour is open seven days a week from April 1 to November 30 and is closed only on Thanksgiving Day. Temperatures within the mine are around a constant of 50–54 °F (10–12 °C).
Adjacent to the mine tour is the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum with exhibits on Northeastern Pennsylvania's mining and industrial history. The address of the mine is at Bald Mountain Rd, Scranton, PA 18504.
The information above comes from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackawanna_Coal_Mine
Steamtown National Historic Site operates yard shuttle tour each day, so that patrons can experience a ride behind a steam locomotive without a big time commitment. Known as the "Scranton Limited", this shuttle is typically a 1 or 2 car train, usually behind a steam locomotive when crews are available, but backed up by a diesel when that's not the case. Here, we see CN 3254 pressed into service on the Scranton Limited during the last day of the 2010 National Railway Historical Society Convention. Unfortunately, this very impressive locomotive was sidelined with a number problems in late 2012 and it's boiler certification subsequently ran out. With B&M 3713 currently getting all of the attention in the park's restoration shop, and the CP 2317 slated to be next in line, it is unlikely that this engine will be restored to operating condition at any time in the foreseeable future. It currently resides under cover, inside the roundhouse at Steamtown NHS.
4/2020 - Scranton, PA
We're about to spend the day chasing a DL job from Scranton to Slateford and return. Before things get moving, here are some shots around Bridge 60.
Ross Rowland's High Iron Company ex Nickel Plate Berkshire #759 is being attended to next to the Lackawanna Station in Scranton Pa.She is taking on coal,water,and being lubed for her return fan trip over the EL,ex DL&W, mainline to Hoboken N.J. Howard Kent Jr. photo.
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6/2017 - Scranton, PA
Back in Scranton, the two ALCOs from the morning trip are on the branch used by the trolley.
The next morning in Scranton we awoke to filtered sun and rain showers in the area but that didn't stop us from shooting PT-98. The entire train fit down at Bridge 60 so we had to choose between this shot and the one a few blocks east which shows the old depot and downtown in the background.
I sort of like this one from the pedestrian crosswalk platform at the west end of the old depot.