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From: Walter Smith wsmith5957 AT hotmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:07 -0400
Subject: FW: West Pittston Rail Pix
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Tony...
I just rec'd these fotos from the West Pittston Historical Society. The first one (of the COXTON LVRR bridge) is not on the Bloom, but the other 2 are fascinating. The depot foto shows the WP Susquehanna Ave station in a broadside view showing the pumping station belonging to the Spring Brook water co. on the west side of the tracks AND the 2 water tanks at the station where the camelbacks slaked their thirst after the climb from Kingston. Kind of funny to see 2 watertanks together but they DO look small.
The foto of rebuilding the riverbridge is great too. It looks like they did it section by section with the nearest being the first to be rebuilt. A bit before my time (1899) but I have many times crawled over these girders as a kid, and later run trains over them when I'd get called to cover one of the Kingston jobs or called for the Northumberland turn.
Since I've put this on the EL List, I have a question for the members. In the early 1950s, my buddies and I would hoof it out on the ties to the 3rd or 4th pier (almost the center of the river)
and crawl down onto the top of the stone pier. None of us smoked, we'd just sit and shoot the breeze and smell the creosote. Sometimes a train'd go by but we weren't in any danger except for a couple of the guys didn't like how the bridge shook & rattled. Here's my question -- when the sun would get low in the sky, we'd head back to the west side and -now & then - a train would come headed toward Scranton. Since 1737 went south around 6:30PM & came back in the middle of the night, were us kids seeing an extra or what. It was NOT a coal train, it had bxcars, gons, etc. I don't think that much freight would originate in Kingston and not be left for 1738. Also.....the power was covered wagons. Will someone tell me what this train was??? Don't say a detour move. We saw it too often for that. I never thought to ask about it when I worked in Kingston or even Scranton. This was NOT EL days - strictly LACKAWANNA. Had to be 1952-55.

Regards,

Walter E. Smith> From: portelli101@comcast.net> To: wsmith5957@hotmail.com> Subject: West Pittston Rail Pix> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:54:24 -0400> > Hi Walter,> The historical society recently received these photos that I thought may be > of interest to you. Since I have not seen any of them before, it was > wonderful to receive them. I did a little research on the D,L & W bridge > and found out that the original in that location was a wooden bridge. I'm > not sure if you had mentioned that to me in the past. In any case, the old > wood bridge was being replaced in this photo from 1899 by the new iron > structure that exists today. The article I read indicated the piers were > built wider than necessary for the wooden bridge with the intention of > eventually replacing it with the wider iron bridge.> > The Coxton bridge picture shows how the locals used the rail bridge to > travel from the east side to the west without having to travel all the way > down to the actual passenger bridges in Pittston. A dangerous act at best - > especially with young children.> > Finally, the view of the Susquehanna Ave station shows a new angle that I > hadn't seen before. It gives a better idea of where the station was located > in relation to the few structures that still exist today.> > I hope all is well and that you enjoy these pix.> Best regards, Mary
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