Happy Wednesday, everyone! We are quickly running out of days on the calendar for 2015, so I hope your year in pictures has been good to you. Enjoy your trackside time. 
It's the countdown to Christmas, and one of Steamtown's locomotives is dressed to greet Santa in her festive wreath. In the past week, Scranton, PA welcomed the Baldwin 26 0-6-0 back to service, which is a nice change. However, change is always happening, and I decided to capture a few photos of one landmark in town that won't be with us much longer.
This is the Harrison Ave bridge in Scranton, which joins "Petersburg" with "Shanty Hill" sections of Scranton. It opened in 1922, and will be gone by 2017. The replacement bridge is under construction. Most trains run by Steamtown do not go to this location, since the Scranton Limited trains stop about 2 blocks short of this location.
On Sundays, we extend the yard by about a mile to run to the Nay Aug Gorge (still in Scranton) and the bridge can be an attraction to this train ride. 
The main arch surrounded by trees spans over the Roaring Brook, one of the main streams in our region. There are two smaller arches, one that once spanned over the Laurel Line Interurban branch to Dunmore, PA and the other over the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR. Steamtown uses the DL&W path, and the old Laurel Line is now the Central Scranton Expressway.
F3 number 664 began the season in April, and has run most of the shorter trips for 2015. She still looks fantastic in the gray and maroon colors of the Lackawanna.
There goes the train. Just shy of the Nay Aug Tunnel, the train stops on a bridge over the Roaring Brook to look at the Nay Aug Gorge, a National Natural Landmark.
As I have mentioned before, our year in review thread begins in two weeks, on December 30. You don't need to post all of your adventures, but please feel free to share some of them with us. Even if you have posted before, we would like to re-live some of the best that 2015 had to offer.
Now it is your turn to add to this week's thread. Any trains, passenger or freight, diesel, steam or electric. Restoration or brand new trains. All are welcome. Have a great week.
