Re: (erielack) Lackawaxen, PA

["Susan/Jim Leighty" <headend_@_ptd.net>]

Fred:

During the early 1970 Pre-Conrail Era, the Honesdale Branch local was called 
just that and to my knowledge had no symbol. Yes, the branch was part of the 
Delaware Division.  It was part of the Wyoming Division back when it 
continued to Scranton and then became part of the Delaware when the line was 
severed.  During this same 1970's period there was a local turn freight from 
Port Jervis to Deposit.  I saw it many times as a teenager and it usually 
had a an old passenger GP-7, about 7 cars and a caboose.  It left Port in 
the morning on M-T-W (I think) and worked its way to Deposit.  It did not 
usually carry any cars for the Honesdale Local at Lackawaxen. Those cars 
were left by a through freight heading East.  There was another through 
westbound freight that picked up the Lackawaxen empties.  I am not sure of 
those through freight symbols but they were usually at night. The Deposit 
local  turn did work at Shohola (Narrowsburg Lumber and Shohola Feed) and 
then headed to Narrowsburg to work the Narrowsburg Lumber Yard there as well 
as Narrowsburg Feed.  Then they continued west doing local work and reached 
Deposit at around 5pm.  The crew rested and the train returned the next 
morning to Port doing work along the way.  I would guess that the two 
through freights that stopped at Lackawaxen would also stop at Deposit to 
pick-up/set-off cars for the Port-Deposit turn.  Sometimes, I saw the 
Honesdale Branch local go to Shohola to drop off a Narrowsburg Lumber car 
that was left at Lackawaxen by mistake by the through job.  It had to be 
very confusing for the train crews as Narrowsburg Lumber got lots of cars of 
lumber, plywood, trim, doors, windows, shingles, tarpaper, nails, paint and 
hardware by rail for each of their yards at Shohola, Honesdale and 
Narrowsburg.  Sometimes, there was as many as 8 cars being unloaded at one 
time at Shohola alone.  I can remember being at the Shohola lumber yard on a 
Saturday morning to pick up some lumber and I watched the eastbound local 
drill cars and then wait for a through freight in the short siding there. 
After the flood in 1955, the mainline through Shohola was single tracked 
from West Shohola, across the re-built single track bridge over Shohola 
Creek to East Shohola, but they maintained a short siding at Shohola for the 
local to do a run around and get out of the way once in a while.

I spent lots of time on this section of the EL as a kid.  It still had lots 
of trains running in the late 60's - early 70's and the old Delaware did 
lots of local business back then.

Jim Leighty




Subject: RE: (erielack) Lackawaxen, PA


>
> This scenario makes sense in a couple of ways. The Maine Central cars 
> makes alot of sense also. Now about the DD local, if it turned at Deposit, 
> where did it mainly (not always) originate from. I would gather then that 
> according to what Jim L said the switcher from Honesddale would work the 
> entire branch from Lackawaxen to Honesdale turning at Lackawaxen. Did this 
> train have a name or was it referred to as the Honesdale Local? And 
> finally, wasn't the Honesdale Branch considered part of the Susquehanna 
> Division in EL days?
>
>
>
> Fred Stratton
>
> Boonton & Greenwood Lake RR in HO Scale
>
> Salisbury, NC 28147
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