Nostalgia & History > Where is it - Northeast

Here is an interesting where is it - we are looking east on a railroad that still exists today (although only with a single track).  What makes this image rare is the track to the left with the boxcar on it.  Where are we and what is that track on the left?

Tim

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I don't know but, I sure like the picture.

Hmmm, lower quadrant semaphores weren't all that common on the east coast, were they?  Who had those?  That might be a clue.

march_hare Wrote:
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> Hmmm, lower quadrant semaphores weren't all that
> common on the east coast, were they?  Who had
> those? 

Maybe Erie and or CNJ?

That might be a clue.

OK, a little hint.  There is occasional passenger service on this line.

HotWater Wrote:
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> Maybe Erie and or CNJ?
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> That might be a clue.

Neither of those, but an Erie-controlled line had a connection about a half mile behind the photographer.

Somewhere on the Lackawanna near Gravel Place ?

train1275 Wrote:
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> Somewhere on the Lackawanna near Gravel Place ?

You're 90% of the way there!  So what is the significance of the boxcar and the track it is on?

njmidland Wrote:
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> train1275 Wrote:
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> > Somewhere on the Lackawanna near Gravel Place ?
>
> You're 90% of the way there!  So what is the
> significance of the boxcar and the track it is on?

Well if we are 90% there then I'll guess boxcar is interchange with the western end of the NYS&W.
Steve B.

stevelv Wrote:

> Well if we are 90% there then I'll guess boxcar is
> interchange with the western end of the NYS&W.
> Steve B.

No.  Actally by the time this photo was taken (1910), the connection between the NYS&W and the DL&W was unused (the NYS&W had diverted coal traffic onto its own WB&E).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/17 07:43 by njmidland.

I think the Lackawanna once had a very short branch to Mountain Home (Mountaintop?) north of Gravel Place.  maybe?

boejoe Wrote:
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> I think the Lackawanna once had a very short
> branch to Mountain Home (Mountaintop?) north of
> Gravel Place.  maybe?

No.  Timetable east of Gravel Place.  The track in question is NOT the Lackawanna (although the main line is).

And no, it is not a trolley line.

Perhaps the Delaware Valley that went north toward Bushkill?

This looks like the CNJ at Cranford, NJ. also known as Aldene, track to the far left looks like the set off track for the Staten Island Rapid Transit.
Ed K. cp Laurel Run

boejoe Wrote:
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> Perhaps the Delaware Valley that went north toward
> Bushkill?

We have a winner!  This is the interchange between the Delaware Valley Railroad and the DL&W, near N.Cortland Street in East Stroudsburg.  The DV dreamed of reaching the Erie near Port Jervis, but ran out of money after getting as far as Bushkill.  In the early years they reached a number of early resorts and did fairly well, but after WWI the resort business had moved further west deeper into the Poconos.  The line was gone by 1933 or so.

A former station of the Delaware Valley still stands in Marshalls Creek PA behind the Huffman General Store at the intersection of US 209 and PA 402 across from the old firehouse.  Last time I saw the structure it was used as a flower shop and the right of way was recognizable.

The building they used to store their locomotive in East Stroudsburg still exists, though heavily modified.  There are few places you can make out the ROW, but that's about it.  

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The Delware Valley right if way is still visible at numerous locations along US 209 north of Stroundsburg.

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