I wrote yesterday > 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. Looking at the topozone picture of the Avoca and Moscow 7.5' map found at http://tinyurl.com/2p8b8l, the northern RoW looks like it went where the dark road is in Frank Adams' picture and probably went down into the valley meeting the old 1890 grade. It could have been a spur for the construction of the Watres Reservoir dam. bob gillis The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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