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From: "Dad" wsmith5957 AT hotmail DOT com
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:26:10 -0500
Subject: Interior of Scranton DL&W station....1963
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Just a note here to tell u how this got taken. I was in the station - probly waiting to deadhead to Binghamton on #1. I'd been in the dispatcher's office on the mezzanine (windows in back of the clock) and walked out & around the corner & setuop my camera on a tripod & took 2 or 3 shots..guessing at the exposure. This one came out best, so here it is. The way it was in the final days as a real passenger station.
You can see the windows of the ticket office which was still dispensing tickets for all over the system; the elegant benches with the tiffany lamps on top. aa passenger sitting on one and another at the end on the opposite side while a couple men wait at the doors to the Bush trainshed. It must have been cold outside - the men are wearing jackets & overcoats. Soon the 2 E-8s will glide by in wisps of steam & smell of hot brakeshoes from descending the Pocono grade into the city. Would anybody like to step back with me & ride along?? I still have my pass.........

Regards to all,

Walter E. Smith

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