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From: RWisneski AT njtransit DOT com
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:14:28 -0400
Subject: 1982 Photos - Lackawaxen & Shohola
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Found a few old prints of mine that I scanned tonight. They were taken in early 1982 (think that's the right year) and aren't terribly remarkable except to illustrate one more time how things keep changing and how important it is for us to try and document this change.

Lackawaxen.jpg is a photo taken Looking east along the former Wyoming Division track looking towards the Lackawaxen station (visible in the photo at the end of the line of boxcars). There is a long string of "DO" (Delaware Otsego) 40 foot box cars (ex Penn Central) on the side track just east of the Route 590 crossing. They have "LASB" reporting marks for the Lackawaxen & Stourbridge, which was the name given to the independent operation on the Honesdale Branch. The Lackawaxen station is now gone, and DO/NYS&W no longer operates the LASB. Wonder what became of all those box cars, which I presume were used to support the branch's largest customer, Moore Business Forms (also gone now). As further orientation if you've never been there, the Southern Tier main (Delaware Division) is between the last boxcar and the station. It curves off to the left heading for Binghamton. Going the other way, past the station, the tracks bend sharply to the left and follow the Delaware River east towards Shohola and Port Jervis. Lackawaxen is about 20 miles west of Port Jervis.

Speaking of Shohola, the photo Shohola Bridge.jpg is taken at the Route 434 UG bridge in Shohola. Notice the Conrail gondolas parked on the side track along the Southern Tier main line, presumably part of a work train. A major change here is that the truss bridge carrying Route 434 across the Delaware River to Barryville, NY (visible under the "ERIE" concrete structure) was recently replaced. The new bridge is more "upriver" or to the left of the old bridge and it does not have any superstructure, it's just a masonry deck bridge.

PRR Gon.jpg is a close up of one of the gondola cars sitting in Shohola on this date, still lettered PRR 363962 about 15 years after the Penn Central merger! Actually, the lettering on the side appears to have been recently "freshened up". I'm pretty sure this car is the left-most car in the previous photo.

Rich Wisneski
Denville, NJ


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