(erielack) Hey ELRRB65... was that you who pried open the door on the Trackside of the Scra

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Todd,
      I went exploring one time in  some of the old store house buildings 
down by the Scranton diesel shop. By  myself and only with a flashlight. Those 
buildings had some large room  vaults with doors that locked. I always worried 
about getting locked in one of  the vaults and not having my body found for 
years. ELRRB65
PS, it was not me that took the plywood down.
 
Hey ELRRB65... was that you who pried open the door on the Trackside of the  
Scranton Station? :)

When I got my drivers license in 1979 one of  my first destinations was 
Scranton Pa. It was about 7pm when we decided to stop  by the station, I discovered 
the plywood over the main entrance was wide open,  of course a buddy and I 
entered the abandoned station! I still recall as we  entered the dark waiting 
room a huge flock of pidgins flew up from the lobby  area, still full of old 
wooden benches, flying in a circle they finally perched  themselves all over the 
upper floors and skylight. 

We walked all  around the station and soon found such things as the old 
ticket office, Scranton  Division offices and even the former Dispatchers office. 
But it was when we  braved the musty, cool dark spooky basement where we 
discovered all the  Lackawanna paperwork! Tons of it!! We just sifted through as 
much of it as we  could in the short time we stayed down there, (Hey we were 
scared.. ya know  ghosts and all) reading all the interesting items. I recall lots 
of old  correspondence and company records were stacked everywhere. I wish I 
"preserved"  something that night, but we left it all. A very dusty place 
indeed, but I think  some of the was also water damaged. What ashame. 

Every time I enter the  station today it amazes me it’s the same abandoned 
place we explored 25 years  ago!  

Todd (ELHS 1318 and ghost  hunter)

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