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From: Gino J Giombetti ggiombetti AT earthlink DOT net
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:21:47 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subject: Re: (erielack) Wimmers
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The station evidently survives as a library in Hamlin.


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>From: gjokra@comcast.net
>Sent: Apr 21, 2012 3:29 AM
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>Subject: Re: (erielack) Wimmers
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>There is very little information on Wimmers available. I was a resident of downtown Wimmers from 1980 to 1989. My house was the property next to the station property, to the east. I purchased the house from Cy Bowman, a former engineman on the Erie. I tried to get him to talk about the railroad, but he didn't offer much.
>What I do know about Wimmers is not much more than you stated; A stop before the yard at Saco.
>At one time there was a Post Office, General Store and Hotel. Remember even into the 50s this was a pretty rural area,and Wimmers was the closest station stop for a lot of farmers.
>There are two early photographs in a book titled "Wish you were here..." published by the Lackawanna County Historical Society.
>One shows the post office which was built in 1890 and was in service until 1919. I would have thought it would be there longer as I'm sure the roads weren't that good to Lake Ariel at the time.and Elmhurst on the Lackawanna was the other closest PO.
>The other photo shows a view through "town" looking past the station up the hill to the church.
>It shows the front of the store and hotel.
>The only other photo I ever saw of Wimmers as it relates to the railroad was on a L&WVHS calender sometime in the 80s.
>It showed the last train coming past the station in 1969
>There was no evidence that there was a water tower or standpipe for steamers as this was just past the top of the grade across the divide from the Susquehanna to the Delaware watersheds. Would they get water at Elmhurst or Saco ?
>The map you posted shows double track in the 20s ? There was a siding there but for what purpose?
>I'm sure by the 60s traffic was all but gone.
>So that's all I know, which isn't much, and I lived there. I always look forward to finding out more information about
>Beautiful Downtown Wimmers.
>Greg Okrasinski
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>I'm looking for some information on Wimmers, Pa. It was a stop on the Erie's Wyoming div just before a yard at Saco. Haven't been able to find more than a sentence, seems a forgotten place. Did the Erie publish tourist info on towns like the Lackawanna did on the Pocono's?
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>Thanks in advance for any help.
>Frank
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