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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.
The USS Monitor was the revolutionary all iron design with the world's first nautical rotating gun turret. It was designed by John Ericsson and financed and promoted to the Navy by Madison's Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. When the Union learned that the Confederates were building an iron clad ship to fight against Federal blockades of Southern ports, it quickly countered with the Monitor. See www.madisonhistory.org/uss-monitor/ for the whole story. The Monitor's most notable engagement was against the CSS Virginia (a.k.a USS Merrimack) during America's Civil War at Hampton Roads, Va. in March of 1862.
This is a large (1/4"=1' scale) museum-quality wooden model of the USS Monitor in its battle-ready appearance. The model was built in the early 1970's by Arthur G. Henning, Inc, 17 South 3rd Ave., Mount Vernon, NY 10550, to exact measurements from archival blueprints. It is a duplicate of the model ship on display at the Smithsonian, which the Henning firm also produced. According to the firm, ours has more detail inside the turret. The ship model includes an anchor and the Ericsson-designed propellor. Painted flat black with red-lead colored hull. The ship model is 43 1/2" long X 10 3/4" wide X 6 1/2" high. It was commissioned by Dr. Philip S. Platt, a previous MHS President, in 1974 for $1,200. It was donated by him to be part of the 1974 MHS exhibit about Cornelius Bushnell and the Monitor.
ACC# 1974.016.002
See other USS Monitor-related images at flic.kr/s/aHBqjzRDR2. (Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
See more scenes of this recently expanded and refurbished library at flic.kr/s/aHsmRy9Js7.
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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.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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
3/2026 - Scranton, PA
Steamtown
DL's Nickel Plate #190 PA-1 is inside the Steamtown Roundhouse. It was built in 1948 for ATSF and spent some time on the D&H. I first saw this engine at the Streamliners event but it did not run at that time.
Just seems so long ago as the Scranton Limited screams south under the New York Central Signals in Schenectady with Amtrak 156 Leading the Charge The train was at Steam town for the Lackawanna Railfest
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
8/2021 - Scranton, PA
Radiator profile of a big ugly MLW/ALCO unit. Don't get me wrong, I love these units and am thankful I got to chase its sister units on the WNYP.
A classic brick freight station in Scranton (at Wyoming at Gibson) was still served by rail during my 10-9-05 visit. Check out the old D&H cast iron sign!
Large oil-on-canvas portrait of Catherine Serena Scranton Platt (1822-1887), later in life. Catherine is wearing a black dress with dark brown bodice. She has a bar shaped brooch and spectacle in her pocket. She is looking slightly to the left. Framed in gilded wooden frame with deep molding and brass label. Back of canvas has tape supporting minor repair to left shoulder. 30” x 38”. Image : 21 1/2” x 29 3/4”.
She was the daughter of Jonathan Scranton and the wife of Joseph Curtis Platt.
Donated by Leonard S. Platt I, 5/1/2020.
ACC# 2020.013.001
See other portraits in the MHS collection at flic.kr/s/aHskvjoPKR. (Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
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.
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
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
After arriving in Pittston, we heard the OCS call for a form D up to Taylor Yard, and we got in position here to see them reversing up the former DL&W, now Reading and Northern's Scranton Branch.
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
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
This photo was taken after a really thunderstorm that attacked north eastern Pennsylvania on May 15, 2018.
Long before the days of the modern Von Storch shops, the DL operated out of a small facility in South Scranton. While the railroad's next door neighbor, a poultry farm, added a certain level of unpleasantness, the welcoming employees and throngs of Alcos made up for the horrible stench. Several evenings were spent taking time exposures of Alcos who were getting a second chance on life all while listening to the squawks of chickens on death row. On this particular day, the DL's shop crews tested out their new non-Alco museum piece, EMC SC no. 426, while M630 no. 3000, nicknamed "Pinky", rests outside the shop.
Scranton, PA. June 2015.
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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
nrhp # 76001645- The land where the cathedral now sits was a swamp covered with moss, long grass, and shrubbery until 1857, when the landowner had the land cleared, and the swamp filled with clay. It became the site of the first circus to come to Scranton. In 1858, it was decided that the site would be a perfect spot for a church, and three lots of the land were purchased for $2,000. Archbishop James F. Wood of Philadelphia laid the cornerstone of the church in 1865. The architect, Joel Amsden, was the leading local architect of the time. He and a local priest, Father Moses Whitty, partnered to lay the plans for the church, which was completed in 1867. The church was originally called the St. Vincent DePaul Cathedral. On March 3, 1868, Pope Pius IX created the Diocese of Scranton and named Reverend Doctor William O'Hara the first bishop of Scranton. In 1884, Bishop William O'Hara commissioned a complete remodeling of the church and hired Edwin Forrest Durang, an architect from Philadelphia. Lorenzo Scattaglia, who was well known for his work in Philadelphia, did frescoing throughout the church. On September 28, 1884, Bishop O'Hara consecrated the church and altar in honor of St. Peter and removed the name of St. Vincent DePaul from the Cathedral. (Envisioning Faith, James B. Earley 1994)
from scrantonpa.gov
Just a corner of the Scranton PA business park. I think the boss on the second floor has a cup that says "Worlds best boss".
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.