Leaving Scranton, PA, on I-84/380, the road crosses over a valley where one can see a well kept double track mainline......which railroad was this and whose is it now?
Thanks, in advance.
Peter
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Leaving Scranton, PA, on I-84/380, the road crosses over a valley where one can see a well kept double track mainline......which railroad was this and whose is it now?
Thanks, in advance.
Peter
Peter, that would currently be the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority trackage operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, its contracted freight hauler and also used by the Steamtown National Historic Site for its excursions. That line runs from Scranton, PA to the Delaware Water Gap currently. What you saw was not actually double trackage, but rather the mainline with a passing siding that is around a mile long. Originally this line was part of the Lackawanna Railroad or DL&W railroad mainline into New Jersey. Chris L.
Thank you!
Peter
It's a shame, but long gone now is the round house of the D.L.&W./E.-L., in Kingston, Pa. and there had to have been a turntable, but by the time I was at the location, what was left of the round house was still on site.
Ralph
I now work in Scranton at the USPS Facility on Davis St. starting today. I was there Downtown on Friday and Saw the D-L running a hopper train of twenty something hoppers backwards down into Scranton... EOT foward1
The powere on the head end was..
[Ex CN] G&W Gp40 Canadian Cab, Two C420 G&W's, the D&L C630 and the D&L C636!
That facility is called Davis St and not Stafford Ave? Funny, I have only known it as Stafford, even when it was on the old "RC Road" which we all swore was haunted. 
. Best wishes and happy railroading in Scranton!
. Best wishes and happy railroading in Scranton!