Good Midweek to one and all. I have some fresh material to add this week, and hope that you have some photos to share with us as well.
This past Monday, July 27, I was taking a pic of this unusual sight at the Delaware Lackawanna RR in Scranton, PA. Two of their famous fleet of Alco locomotives matched with their 1948-built Lackawanna Railroad caboose. The caboose was built in Scranton, about a mile or so from this location in the downtown.
The loco on the left was originally an Erie Lackawanna unit, while the right unit is former Lehigh Valley. When the railroad rebuilt the locomotive and painted it, they re-created the LV flag on the short hood with a "GV" in the black diamond in place of the original "LV."
While taking the first photo, I heard the horns for this incoming freight train, returning from a grain mill in the Pocono Mountains. The mountain shown in the photo is the Moosic Mountain.
No. 414 is painted in her original livery of the Lehigh Valley's yellow-jacket scheme. The caboose on the right is also former LV, too. It is part of the Steamtown collection.
Delaware Lackawanna is investing in the Scranton area. This building is nearing completion in the Pine Brook section of the city. The two-stall structure will be the new locomotive shop for repair and restoration of the Alco-centric fleet.
This is the view from a causeway built over what was once the Delaware & Hudson RR Green Ridge yard. The building is roughly where the D&H once had it's roundhouse.
The view from the causeway looking south toward the downtown. The track on the right is now disconnected, but leads about 2 blocks to a stub end. It served a plastics plant in the 1990s.
That is my offering for this week. Thank you to all for your help in keeping this thread interesting. Please add your photos here.
