Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 25, 2017--B Series (B2408-B2412) IDs

[Robert Bahrs <rrbahrs_@_gmail.com>]

Don
I think I recall the Factoryville connection came out around WW2.   It only
went to just the Factoryville area of the old line.  Did not traverse the
old line for any distance.

Bob

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Don Liotta <donliotta_@_comporium.net>
wrote:

>
> I didn't realize those two oft photographed/filmed bridges were near the
> new line Factoryville station. Looks like the roads are now named Seamans
> and Reynolds roads. Reynolds must have previously been Chrisman. It's gone
> now. I think Seamans is still there, but not sure.
>
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHgHBUTa8w
>
> http://wnep.com/2012/10/17/bridges-crumbling-in-lackawanna-county/
>
> Bob, where did the Factoryville connection end up? The old station? When
> was it torn out? I remember the line dropping down in Hop Bottom, but not
> Factoryville.
>
>
> Don Liotta
>
> > On Aug 25, 2017, at 10:55 AM, Robert Bahrs <rrbahrs_@_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Small additions in *bold*.   Sadly Factoryville Sta is no longer
> standing.
> > It did last a long time, and was there on many of my trips to that area.
> > Of note:  Just before the tree line on the right side of the Factoryville
> > Sta shots is a track that went down to connect to the old line in
> > Factoryville. One of two physical connections between the old and new
> lines
> > just to server freight customers.
> >
> > B2408--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Factoryville, PA--Station [1916.08.18]
> > B2409--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Factoryville, PA--Station [1916.08.18]
> > B2410--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Factoryville, PA--Station *View looks RR
> east*.
> > [1916.08.18]
> > B2411--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Chrisman Arch--Gilmore Cut, *View looks RR
> > west.* [1916.08.18]
> > B2412--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Chrisman Arch--Gilmore Cut, *View looks RR
> > west*. [1916.08.18]
> >
> > Bob Bahrs
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 5:56 AM, McKnight, Richard <pat_mcknight_@_nps.gov
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-08-25-17
> >>
> >> B2408.jpg (image/jpeg, 2858x2365 795156 bytes, BF: 8.50 ppb)
> >> B2409.jpg (image/jpeg, 2816x2373 773147 bytes, BF: 8.64 ppb)
> >> B2410.jpg (image/jpeg, 2922x2331 755231 bytes, BF: 9.02 ppb)
> >> B2411.jpg (image/jpeg, 2884x2350 1020088 bytes, BF: 6.64 ppb)
> >> B2412.jpg (image/jpeg, 2926x2381 1108444 bytes, BF: 6.29 ppb)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> B2408--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Factoryville, PA--Station [1916.08.18]
> >> B2409--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Factoryville, PA--Station [1916.08.18]
> >> B2410--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Factoryville, PA--Station [1916.08.18]
> >> B2411--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Chrisman Arch--Gilmore Cut [1916.08.18]
> >> B2412--Pennsylvania Cut-Off--Chrisman Arch--Gilmore Cut [1916.08.18]
>


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