Re: (erielack) Mystery Photo Location, solved

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Rich and Bob
I know it always looked like Stroudsburg, except for that building to  the le
ft and the  eastward facing interlocking switch in the  foreground.  I don't 
ever remember seeing any part of the interlocking  plant way to the east of the 
station like that.    
 
SO  not Soo  lol ..........  I started to do some more  research too, and the 
photos on page 86 and 87 of Lackawanna in color vol 2  confirm everything. IT 
IS E. Stroudsburg and that building was there in 1952 and  gone by 1960. The 
very unique off center interlocking signal and water  plug DO line up, as does 
the M of W shed across the  tracks. 
 
I think that eastward facing interlocking switch  disappeared by  merger date 
as did the concrete bumping block per the photo on page 87. As  a matter of 
fact a large blow up of a Gene Collora photo at E.  Burg that I have hanging in 
my basement confirms nothing to the east of the  station by late 1959 or 
early 1960. I might add that this is the exact  location and approximate angle of 
the mystery wrong faze  F3 # 804 photo that was talked about on the Anthracite 
list a  little over a year ago, so that clears up that location mystery also, 
 although NOT the wrong faze F3 mystery.
 
I'll throw out two more questions:     :)
 
Did those tall cylindrical Lackawanna water towers have a roof on top, or  
were they open?
 
Wasn't there a freight house just east of the concrete overhead bridge at  E. 
Stroudsburg, and if so what was this building in the foreground of the photo  
in question? A second freight house or original freight house?
 
Thanks for the input guys.
 
Bob Bahrs
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/18/2006 11:29:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com writes:

Bob & listers,
 
Yes, it was torn down in the early 60's I believe.
 
Rich

Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>  wrote:

Bob  and Rich,
I have no memory of the brick building with the
platform by  810 class engines. Was it an express
building that was tore down in the  1960's or what and
when did it get torn down?
Bob Stafford

- ---  Richard Pennisi wrote:

> Bob and  listers,
> 
> That is East Stroudsburg without a doubt.  The
> first clue is station canopy. That is definately
> the  East Stroudsburg Station. The dwarf signal to
> the right is in the  correct position from diagrams
> that I have seen. That would have  been in the
> general area the PRR doodlebug layed over at  between
> runs.
> 
> Just out of the photo and to the  right would be
> where that vertical black water tank was  located.
> 
> Rich  Pennisi







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