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From: "Frank Adams" frank600 AT comcast DOT net
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:41:30 -0600
Subject: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--March 31, 2016 (A0368-A0369, and X0369) IDs
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Ref: A0368--Kingston, PA--Swamp--Bridge in Background [1906.04.25]

Don,

I think they're one in the same bridge. The WB&E originally built it over
the Susquehanna c1892. The wooden trestle was declared unsafe in 1904
forcing the WB&E to close their terminal in Kingston and use Plains instead.
The D&H's Wilkes-Barre Connecting RR was leasing it by 1916 according to
their valuation maps (attached - note the DL&W narrow gauge mine track to
Pettebone at the top). The WBC purchased it outright after the WB&E 1937
bankruptcy.

Interesting historical aside. The bridge was reportedly on the list of
targets for the German saboteurs who landed by submarine on Long Island in
1942.

Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Liotta [mailto:donliotta AT comporium DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 8:09 AM
To: EL Mail List
Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--March 31, 2016 (A0368-A0369, and
X0369) IDs

I'm pretty sure the Wilkes Barre Connecting bridge wasn't built until 1912
or so, and this bridge doesn't look like the current one, although it
appears to follow a similar path. I think this is an earlier WB&E one, which
terminated in Kingston in its early days.

Don Liotta

> On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Robert Bahrs wrote:
>
>
> A0368 & A0369 Are as marked. Others seem to think the bridge is part of
> the Wilkes Barre Connecting RR. I can't comment on that.
>
> X0369 *My suspicions are confirmed today, by the presence of
> the famous Colgate Clock in the back ground. All these photo's of a pier
> being dismantled are on the Manhatten Side of the Hudson. In lower
> Manhattan, NOT Hoboken.*
>
> Bob Bahrs
>


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