Good Wednesday, everyone! Midweek Photos is our chance to share the ordinary and the spectacular world of railroading with people all over the world. It seems that when one spectacular thing happens, others happen around the same time. This was a busy weekend for the Scranton PA railroading. Friday evening, the Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society held a "Swing into Spring" event where they exhibited their passenger train, along with some RS3s lent by Delaware Lackawanna Railroad.
Their pride and joy is Lackawanna RR Diner number 469, a 1949 -Budd built car which ran with the Phoebe Snow train.
Peaches and Crime, singing Prohibition era styled songs, performed at the former Lackawanna RR station. This location was once the boarding area.
Saturday, April 16 was "the Phoebe Snow Gala" held at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel. The ELDCPS provided lunch and dinner aboard the diner.
Also, tours were given to tell of the legend of Phoebe Snow, who represented the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad from 1900 through 1966. Dominick Keating and Phoebe Snow begin the program, while Kenny Ganz wraps up the tour by taking people through the station.
On Sunday, April 17, the focus shifted down the streets in Scranton to the former railroad yard. As part of National Park Week, Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 number 26 was debuted with a short dedication ceremony.
Steamtown superintendent Debbie Conway and NPS Northeast Regional Assistant Director Jonathan Meade spoke at the podium and cut the ribbon to celebrate the end of this steam engine restoration.
And off she rolls. And so do I . Time to get to work. Please add your scenes of railroading from the recent past, so you can share the celebrations as well as the ordinary railroad items in your corner of the world. Have a great week!
