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RE: (erielack) Building at DL&W Nay Aug, PA

Well, Frank, it's hard to say WHAT this building was for.  I've seen some 
brickworks & they're usually much bigger in area than this. When u consider 
that this area was early on involved in the industrial revolution in the 
USA, there's huge stone & concrete bldgs. all over the Lackawanna & Wyoming 
valleys. I roamed around many of them as a kid (40s & 50s) withi=out the 
knowledge of my dad of course. I have a pretty good feeling how the Vandals 
felt when they came across Roman ruins in the dark ages.......... No idea 
what they were & thought they were built by 'giants'. There were many 
abandoned breakers, pumphouses, hoisting engines, & they ALL looked like 
this when I saw them. Many have been covered by 'development' now, but if u 
know where to look, you can see how our recent ancestors built the 
infrastructure we stand upon today. I'm kind of surprised that STEAMTOWN 
doesn't run a kind of 'archeological tour' of the area.  The Laurel Line 
alone still has lots of ROW & I don't just mean the restored tunnel. There's 
a tunnel under the DL&W mainline at Keyser Valley curve on the North side of 
the highway. Faced with stone, it was built by the NYO&W to pass under the 
'DL' & gain access to the back valley & the LVRR connection.
I was thinking the structure u pictured might have been used as a pumphouse 
for draining the mine workings or to power a big ventilator shaft that may 
lurk in the underbrush........BE CAREFUL out there.
Regards,
Walter E. Smith

>From: Frank P Adams <frank.p.adams_@_mci.com>
>Reply-To: Frank P Adams <frank.p.adams_@_mci.com>
>To: erielack_@_lists.Railfan.net
>Subject: (erielack) Building at DL&W Nay Aug, PA
>Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:28:52 -0600
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>Anyone know what this building was for?  It's located right next to the 
>DL&W
>main in the Nay Aug section of Dunmore PA, almost right under the I-380
>bridges.   A you can see from the photos, they over engineered the roof
>support just a little.  Someone told me it may have been a brick factory,
>but I didn't see any evidence to support or deny that idea.
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>thanks,
>
>Frank Adams
>Colorado Springs, CO
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