Re: (erielack) Mystery Photo Location

["Walter Smith" <wsmith5957_@_hotmail.com>]

    Well, Neil, I wish that it were - but the 'garden village' only had the 
typical DL&W wooden station with the freight section at one end (in the case 
of WP at the South end), the agent office in the center, and the waiting 
room for passengers in the North end of the building. No signal at the 
station nor was there a concrete bumping block. Just the 2 mainline tracks 
and the siding at the south end of the station where there was a concrete 
platform raised to the level of a boxcar floor to facilitate unloading of 
(among other things) new (1950) Chevrolets for Roy Stauffer's dealership on 
Wyoming Avenue.
     There was a signal for the Northbound track just south of the 
Tunkhannock Ave. crossing. I was trying to remember this from when I worked 
on the train that went to Northumberland & back overnight. It was the 
practice to wait there with the engines just off the highway crossing until 
we got the clearance from Coxton to cross the Lehigh Valley on the other 
side of the river - otherwise you'd tie up all the street crossings in West 
Pittston if the LV held you up. I finally found an old B&W foto I took of 
the station looking toward Exeter and you can faintly see the high signal 
just past Tunkhannock ave. crossing. The concrete base is probably still 
there.
Regards,
Walter E. Smith


>From: "Neil Weinberg" <laurellines_@_gmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Neil Weinberg" <laurellines_@_gmail.com>
>To: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
>CC: Dlw1el2_@_aol.com, erielack@lists.elhts.org
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Mystery Photo Location
>Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:31:25 -0500
>
>Could this location be West Pittston, PA?  Neil Weinberg (Bloomsburg 
>branch)
>
>On 3/18/06, Schuyler Larrabee <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-03-18-06
> > >
> > > Mystery_photo_001.jpg (image/jpeg, 702x310 117810 bytes, BF: 1.85 ppb)
> > >
> > > Seeking any thoughts on this photo.   First thoughts all lead to  E.
> > > Stroudsburg.
> > >
> > > But:
> > >
> > > The freight house was east of the overhead bridge at S Burg.
> > > Where  this building in the foreground stood I believe was an
> > > open area.  Appears  to be at an interlocking, via the
> > > signal, and dwarf signal.
> >
> > Nope, I don't think that's East Stroudsburg.  The background skyline 
>isn't
> > right for that, so it's
> > someplace else, I'm pretty sure.
> >
> > > Soo........................................
> >
> > No, I don't think so.  DL&W didn't get to Michigan.    8^)
> >
> > SGL
> >
> > > Bob Bahrs
> > >
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