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Fathers Day weekend 1987 finds CP 2317 (dressed in disguise) departing Scranton with a round trip excursion to Moscow, PA.
Seen in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The Paul Kanjorski Pedestrian Bridge in Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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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.
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.
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.
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DL 3643 M636 (ex-CP 4743)
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.
Seen along the Lake Scranton Walking Trail in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
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.
Ross Rowland's High Iron Company Nickel Plate Berkshire #759 has wyed its fantrip train in Scranton Pa. and will be heading eastbound back to Hoboken N.J. over EL, ex DL&W rails. Photo taken from Bridge 60 Tower. Howard Kent Jr. 07-22-1973.