RE: (erielack) Re: Coney Island's in Scranton

["Sam Weibel" <weeb_@_centurytel.net>]

The club above the DL&W Motive Power Building, later called the Storehouse
was the Scranton Model Railroad Club, Known also as the Lackawanna Central
RR, My brother and I were members starting as teens in the early 60's, On
one side of the building was the HO gauge layout and on the other was the O
scale, The O'scale went defunct about 1963, boy I wish I knew what happened
to all the switch lanterns that had been converted to electric and hung
along the wall on the O scale side, another unusual addition for the club
was a walk in safe complete with a combination lock like a bank, inside it
were these long desks with drawers for blueprints, perfect for putting HO
models in, every member was issued a drawer or two to keep their equipment
in, also the rear coffee lounge had a perfect view of the Scranton Diesel
shops and many a night we would go down and see what was going on before a
meeting, the shop men got to know you and never minded a visit. Some of the
older members were Paul Ackerman, Ed Barrows, a gentleman named McClure
whose first name escapes me, Paul Walker, plus others that the 40 years have
erased from memory, The club was still there when I went off to service in
1969 and I moved around the country before settling in St Louis but it was
gone on a visit in the early 70's, since it was mostly DL&W, Erie prototype
I guess this rambling is list content,Ed Barrows used to sell Model
equipment and eventually opened a shop in Clarks Summit. I bought a Japanese
FA painted in Erie from hi for about $25.00 (real early brass) I remember it
as a real coffee grinder that would get everyones attention when it ran. If
anyone can fill in what ever happened to the club let me know, they were a
great bunch of guys,always willing to help a younger guy.

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Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: Coney Island's in Scranton


There was no doubt that Tony Harding's was the more posh as compared to the
Coney Island. The buildign Harding's was in orginally was the Railway
Express
building and cars were laoded on to a siding off the second floor, although
I
personally don't ever recall REA operating there.

During WW2 there was an O scale club that had a layout on the top floor of
the building. I was a teenager at the time but managed to get into the club
as a
member.
The club was there before Harding. The resturant started to store garbage on
the second floor and it became too much for the club to stand. They then
moved
to the Scrantonian building on Spruce St. off Franklin Ave.  Then the club
moved again, then to the top floor of what was then the DL&W Motive Power
building which still stands at Steamtown.

Both Harding's and the Coney Island were something else when a DL&W "5
bagger" coal train came past. All conversation ceased and the buildings
shook. The 5
bagger name came from helper engine, road engine, and three pushers on the
rear....

Chuck Yungkurth
Boulder CO



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