Hey, guys. Here we are, back at another episode of Midweek Photos. Time to share some of our photos of railroading as we experience it in the real world. If I fell upon a theme for my photos this week, it is bridges. Here is my first railroad bridge: 
Above is Bridge 60 in Scranton, PA. This was the heart of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR's yard which served to sort just about anything but coal. Other yards did the coal work. This is a very active bridge, seeing Delaware Lackawanna and Steamtown trains using it nearly daily. The D-L owns this Canadian Pacific crane, which was brought to Steamtown's yard on Monday.
Now for a dead bridge. At least six Warren true spans cross the Susquehanna River outside of West Pittston, PA. This was a Lehigh Valley branch line which ran from the LV Coxton Yard (later Contrail's Pittston Yard) and ran through the west side of the Wyoming Valley to Luzerne, PA, Dallas and Harvey's Lake before reaching the Main Line again around Towanda, PA. This bridge was last used in the early 1990s by the Pocono Northeast Railroad.
Damage caused by flooding in 2011 took away a lot of the stone supporting two of the piers. The current owner is Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority. Work is under way to remove the bridge before it falls in the river and becomes a dam.
The approach to the bridge is a concrete causeway which follows PA route 29 for a stretch. The gate is a human-access to the other side of the approach and the river.
Now, on the other side of the causeway, we are on the right of way for the West Pittston & Exeter Railroad. It was built by Pennsylvania Power & Light to serve a power plant up stream. It also served a company called Celotex at one time. When the industry closed down, the tracks were ripped up. About 1995, I would say.
Here is the bridge, without track. This will likely be my last time seeing the bridge.
About 3 miles downriver, we see another railroad bridge. This one is also owned by the Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority. This one was once part of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR's Bloomsburg Branch. The Luzerne & Susquehanna Railroad will sometimes use it, but not very often. It's future is not certain.
This is a longer bridge than the Lehigh Valley's upstream, but the concrete piers supporting these spans seems to be holding up better than the stone piers on the LV. On the far end of each of these bridges, you eventually reach the Reading & Northern RR yard in Pittston.
From Susquehanna Ave in West Pittston looking down to Pittston.
And right down the line, heading southwest. The tracks end a few miles south in Kingston. They pick up again, and are in use when you head down the Susquehanna River just north of Berwick, PA. At that point, the Bloomsbury Branch is managed by the North Shore Railroad.
That's my contribution for the week. Thank you for looking, and I hope you have some great train photos to add to the list.
