Re: (erielack) WB&E Panther Creek

[bob gillis <robertgillis_@_verizon.net>]

Adams, Frank P wrote:
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> Recently was lent a 2003 book on the NYS&W who bot the WB&E and in
> turn was controlled by the Erie...   long story...
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> The Panther Creek Viaduct.  I heard it was near Srpingbrook, PA, but
> not sure where.  Now with the acme.com/mapper (attached), anyone care
> to comment if this is an accurate analysis?   Yellow is roadbed of
> WB&E, viaduct in magenta.

There is a book about the WB&E:

The Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad
     Fredericks, Harold S.
Publisher: 	Railroadians of America,
Pub date: 	c1986.
Pages: 	108 p. :
ISBN: 	0941652076

This, I think, is a paperback reprint of an earlier hardbound book.

It looks to me as though there were two grades, one going over the
viaduct and one just to the north that curved around  and went under the
location of the viaduct.

In the 1889 Topo map for Scranton southeast found at
http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=scrn91sw.jpg&state=PA

there is a railroad that runs in the bed of Spring Brook Creek to
Rockdale. If this was an early alignment of the WB&E it was relocated when
the dam across Spring Brook  was built to make the Watres Reservoir.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Frank Colorado Springs, CO
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