Happy Wednesday! Another week is notched in the history books, and another on the way. How has your train-hunting been going lately? In my part of Pennsylvania, one of the winter breaks from cabin fever is the annual gathering of live steam modelers at the Electric City Trolley Station & Museum in Scranton.
With the formerly open space in the Trolley Museum being occupied by street cars as they near or complete restoration, one was selected to push out in the weather for a few days. This is Wilmington (DE) streetcar 120, a single truck car. Indoor space is occupied by Brooklyn's Third Ave. open air car and the John Oliver train layout. I could not get good photos of the steam meet, but an added part of the weekend is the operation of the Trolley from downtown Scranton to Moosic, PA. I did catch that on it's way into the downtown on Saturday morning.
If you don't know this location, it is on the edge of downtown Scranton, along a stream called the Roaring Brook. The white towers in the rear center are part of a plastics plant that is in the building which once served as the Laurel Line (Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad -- an Interurban) car shop. This track is called the Brady lead, which once connected the Laurel Line with the Lackawanna Railroad yard which is now Steamtown National Historic Site.
Off into the horizon, about to cross under the Spruce St. Complex. The car, no. 80 is from Philadelphia's Suburban Line, the Red Arrow.
That is my contribution for the week. How about you? Do you prefer electrics? Maybe a special passenger train ran recently that you rode or caught? Even the mundane every day trains are welcome here. Please share.
) The cold has caused railroads to put slow orders on some sections. This is both good and bad. Good in that it makes it much easier for me to get multiple shots of a train, but bad in that I end up having to wait hours. I guess also bad in that the snow packed roads add to danger and slow me down a bit. The mid ranged forecast calls for March to be much the same. Anyway, some shots:
It's all part of life on the Northern Plains.
