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RE: (erielack) Mystery Photo Location, solved
Water tanks are seldom left open on top. Reasons: 1) evaporation is ferocious. 2) aerial
bombardment (if you get my drift) can pollute the water, even for purposes other than drinking. 3)
Airborne dirt from other things like smoke and cinders aren't good either
I'll have to check out the photos you cite, as the existence of the bumper block >then< and no block
>now< is one of the reasons I figured it wasn't E. Stroudsburg. Those things tend to last forever
because it's so difficult to get rid of them.
SGL
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> Subject: Re: (erielack) Mystery Photo Location, solved
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> http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-03-18-06
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> Mystery_photo_001.jpg (image/jpeg, 702x310 117810 bytes, BF:
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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
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> 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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