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From: Frank P Adams frank DOT p DOT adams AT verizonbusiness DOT com
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:51:36 -0700
Subject: RE: (erielack) Laurel Line Calendar pic for March
"Penpilot_Dunmore_Res_7_1939.jpg" - image/jpeg, 3330x2820 (256c)

Here's the map, a Pennpilot photo from 1939 (around the time of the calendar
shot) and finally a modern aerial photo of the same area.


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank P Adams [mailto:frank DOT p DOT adams AT verizonbusiness DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:24 PM
To: 'EL Mail List'
Subject: RE: (erielack) Laurel Line Calendar pic for March

Thanks Chuck,

I pulled out my map tonight and yes, the middle track is the main, the
foreground a siding, and the one in back is labeled "Scranton Br". The
location looks to be right before "Haines or East Jnct". If the locomotive
weren't in the way I would guess Dunmore reservoir #7 is behind it.

I think that area is still accessible, I'll give it a try in August when I
venture back to the area.

Frank
Colorado Springs, CO

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Yungkurth [mailto:raildata AT comcast DOT net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:31 PM
To: EL Mail List
Subject: Re: (erielack) Laurel Line Calendar pic for March

The first thing that comes to my mind is how Farber got to that location
since to me as a teenager it was completley inaccessible...asie from walking
the tracks from Dunmore.

I think the train is on the southbound main track. The line was double track
from Rock Junction all the way to Avoca. It seems to me the track on the
other side of the loco is the one that goes down to Dunmore Yard and the
Scranton Branch. Dunmore was essentially at the stub of a wye and I can
recall walking across the fill and bridge over the Lackwanna tracks.

My memories of Dunmore was that not much ever seemed to be hapenning but
there were a huge number of cars stored there.

When I was at Scranton Tech in '45-'46 I wasted a lot of time looking out
the windows watching a 2-8-0 or 2-10-0 switching the samll yard. My
grandmother lived very close to the tracks near the River Street grade
crossing and I recall very few trains passing there. I suspect that most of
those Erie coal trains ran at night. But there were 3-4 daily ech way on the
D&H powered by those USRA 2-10-2s.

Wish I had more film back then...and kept the few negs I did take!

Chuck Yungkurth
Boulder CO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank P Adams"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 1:11 PM
Subject: (erielack) Laurel Line Calendar pic for March


> If anyone has the Laurel Line calendar, the March picture is a hazy
> picture of an Erie steam loco pulling (moving in reverse) a local
> freight on the Erie Wyoming Division in Dunmore in the mid 1940s. The
> train is approaching Rock Junction and the connection with the Jessup
> Br.
>
> It's a very interesting photograph. Can anyone identify the locomotive
> type? There are clearly 3 tracks in the photo. was this area (west of
> Rock Jct) a siding, or was the Wyoming division 3 tracks in the 1940s?
>
> Finally where is this location today? I'm thinking it's part of the
> DeNaples auto junk yard?
>
> thanks
>
> Frank
> ELHS #2116
> ELH&TS #52
>
>
>
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