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



Sam & OTHERS ............

  FYI, there was a great RR display in the showwindows of (not sure) 
Scranton Dry Goods dept store. The store (on the east side of Lackawanna 
Ave.) was out of business, and inside were model rrs and all kinds of 
lanterns, conductors hats, etc. This was in the early 80s about the time the 
Steamtown collection came to Scranton. I was working for Amtrak & had come 
up home for a visit & went to the station which was being gutted. I talked 
to the foreman who gave me a hardhat & said I had 1 hour while they went to 
lunch. In the basement, there were rolls of trainsheets, cancelled checks, 
etc. That's where I got the stuff I've been selling online after my wife had 
enough of my sitting up & rooting thru it in the front guest bedroom. When 
the contractors came back, one of the guys told me to hang around - he had 
some stuff up at his house. He sure did!! - his garage was full of stuff - 
all kinds of paper, lanterns, etc. In the house were conductors hats, ticket 
punches, validators.
Regards to all
Walter E. Smith
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Weibel" <weeb_@_centurytel.net>
To: <RAILDATA_@_aol.com>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Re: Coney Island's in Scranton


> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org]On Behalf Of RAILDATA@aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 7:32 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> 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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