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From: "William J DOT Culverhouse" wjclvrhs AT hotmail DOT com
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 17:44:03 -0500
Subject: Photos C0586- C0592
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Pat,
I am unable to positively identify the mine branch and colliery shown in Photos C0586-C0589, but I believe they were taken at Kinston, PA. Perhaps another of our group can confirm my speculation. C0586 may be looking east into Kingston, across the DL&W ROW in the distance. The steeple in the distance at the left resembles that of the old Baptist Church on West Dorrance Street, that was replaced by a brick structure about 1953, although it could be the Dorranceton ME Church that was located about a half block further east: both had similar steeples, though I think Dorranceton ME was higher. There was a colliery in the area around Division Street just south of the Toby Creek Dike, between the DL&W Bloomsburg Branch ROW on the east and Grove Street, Pringle, PA. on the west, an area occupied by a number of commercial buildings today. I have never seen a photo of that colliery, which was long gone when we used to play on the culm bank, that was all that was left in the 1950s. At any rate, C0585 and C0587- C0589 look west. If my guess is right, that would place the houses in the distance on Grove Street, Pringle, PA. The mountains in the distance appear to match the profile of those seen in googlemaps street view from roughly the same spot on Division Street today. Photo C2646, taken 5 24 1915, shows the ROW at Division Street looking north, and shows a spur going off to the west that went to the colliery.
C0590 shows Avondale Colliery as described, looking north along the ROW. I believe the station shown was the for colliery workers, as there was another, similar Avondale station further north, as shown in Photo C3508, taken 6 20 1916. C0591 looks south. In the distance is Chauncey Colliery. C0592 shows an interesting variety of hoppers and gondolas, including three short hopper bottom gondolas at the right, the prototype for the latest HO scale model by John Canfield and Bob McGlone. According to John, this gondola was the standard Lackawanna coal car circa 1890. A 10,000 of these cars were built from the late 1880's to early 1890's, number series 40000 - 4999; some were still in use in 1910.
We had a clear view of this type of car at least once before, in Photo C0329 taken October 31, 1908 at Wyoming Avenue in Kingston, PA. Hope this helps! Bill Culverhouse







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