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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.
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
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Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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.
A little after 1PM, the Steamtown National Historic Site's Baldwin Switcher #26 takes a short excursion consist east on the Delaware & Lackawanna Mainline, headed from Bridge 60 to the eastern yard limit, with a load of park visitors on board. Known as the "Scranton Limited", these short trains not only provide patrons with a short tour of the yard, but also the experience of riding behind a live steam locomotive. Although most of the trip is completed at a relatively slow speed, they do make a short dash at somewhat higher speed, from the station area, just out of view to the right, all the way to the yard limit. During that time, passengers will get to hear the locomotive work a bit.
As of 2023, the train pictured here is Steamtown's only steam-powered service. For a couple of decades, the park did have two, much larger, Canadian National locomotives, which did enable them to run periodic, off-site excursions with a much longer train. Sadly, both of those locomotives were sidelined for various mechanical issues back in 2010, and since then the 26 has been the only active steamer. There had been an effort underway to restore a large, former Boston & Maine Pacific-type, but that project was proceeding at a snail's pace and was recently suspended. Fortunately, at least one of the two Canadian National engines does appear to be restorable. Hopefully, in the coming years, NPS will find a way to get one back in service as off-site excursions would clearly draw bigger crowds and better fulfill the park's stated mission.
3/2026 - Scranton, PA
The set of four 6-axles is moving about at Bridge 60. They're going to head past Steamtown to pick up their train from yesterday and take it to NS Taylor Yard.
On the early morning of January 15, 2024, we see a line of ex-Western New York & Pennsylvania MLW M636’s sitting in the Scranton PA deadline under a cool blue morning sky.
3/2026 - Scranton, PA
For Saturday of this weekend I didn't have any specific plans. I ended up shotting DL around Scranton and visited Steamtown. I spent all the previous day chasing the DL to Gravel Place and back.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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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.
3/2026 - Scranton, PA
The set of four 6-axles is moving about at Bridge 60. They're going to head past Steamtown to pick up their train from yesterday and take it to NS Taylor Yard.
4/2023 - Scranton, PA
Steamtown itself is a no-drone zone but I can at least peer in from a distance.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
Seen in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.