Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley (Laurel Line)

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Around Pittston, Summer, 1950

 

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[Flintlock76]

Thanks David!  You had me going there for a while, the "Lackawanna and WHAT?"  

Then I realized it, "Oh, an interurban line! What do you know?"  

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Well, both the DL&W and the L&WV served Scranton.  Indeed, the Laural Line station and loop tracks were across the DL&W main line from the big DL&W station.  The Laural Line  did sell interline, multi-coupon tickets for through travel over steam connecting railroads.  So, being a wise guy, aI asled the Willsbarre Lsural Line ticket agent for a through ticket to Carbondale, intending to use the Delaware and Hudson Scranton - Carbondale train, and then was amazed when he sold it to me, "No Problem."

Getting to Scranton, I got the unfortunate news that the D&H did not use the DL&W station, and time being short for the connection, had to use a taxi to get to the D&H station.

Heere are the open-platform, steel, roller-bearing coaches of the D&H trains, with another Consolidation obscuring the Consolidation that hauled me to Carbondale.

Arouund Scranton and Carbondale, the D&H seemed to use 2-8-0's for everything, pasenger, freigiht, and switching. Not Camelback, but wide Wooten fireboxes anyway.

 

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Thw previous photo was taken at Carbondale.  Here is the train at Scranton:

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Some more Laurel Line, L&WV photos:

Wilkesbarre Station:

Lowering the pole upon reaching third-rail:

Scranton, with the DL&W in the background:

 

On the south-bound reack at South Scranton Station, with the south tunnel portal yn the backgrounf. The vegitation at this north enf of yhe island platform confused me into thinkig this eas a sdingle-track station.

These photos December, 1949

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Leaving Willkesbarre:

Freight power 403 at Willkesbarre Loop

Scranton Station Loop

 

 

 

 

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A beautiful photo by the late Ed Miller:

I met Ed when he was with Capitol Transit in 1947 and then again in summer 1950 when he was retired and living in Pittston close to the L&WV main line.

 

The Electric City trolley museum next to Steamtown was one of his major joys in his last years, and  he lived long enough to run the museum's Philadelphia Suburban Brill center-door car through the L&WV Scranton tunnel.