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That makes sense. Coming off the South Side Industrial would drop them right in front of a train leaving richards.

A few years ago they added extra lanes on the Turnpike in that stretch. My bet is that the new track is related that. If you look at Streetview on the northbound side looking at the tracks going north, you see the same thing -- some new tracks and ballast extending 100 ft or so from the turnpike. h...

I remember double level open cars full of Jeeps going south through Scranton during college. Mixed among TOfC/COFC was Cat equipment, cab crated, maybe for export.

Conrail also condemned the other Pin Truss bridge, the LV bridge over the Delaware around the same time, lucky they had the CNJ bridge next to it. In it's day the pin truss was strong enough. My Pappy told stories of how, in steam days, some engineers would try and avoid calling a pusher to make the...

The bridge was an unusual design [Pin Truss]. The large 'hot' cars built by Treadwell came over that bridge along w/ all that coal and other goods. Conrail experienced a failure and condemned the bridge for revenue traffic. I think it was a structural problem at the track level. Conrail made an deci...

IIRC the CNJ bridge in Easton is slightly newer and riveted where the LV is pinned. So Conrail swung the Lehigh Line onto the CNJ for enough of a stretch to use that bridge instead. Cheaper long term to maintain even though the CNJ likely had done nothing to it since the 60s and for a while it was ...

Those circular remains are the site of the 'Changewater' Getty Oil storage facility. The pipeline used to bring crude to Newark from NW PA. Later it was reversed and sent refined products outward. Changewater was changed from crude storage to heating oil. A truck loading rack was installed off Asbur...

Hightstown already donated some stone sleepers to the Smithsonian. When the PRR roadway was torn up they found a section of the stones under it. They added a display next to the relocated freight house that the historical society occupies. If you drive along Docks Corner road in the Dayton section o...

I think there was 4 tracks crossing Business Rt209 in East Stroudsburg. I know it was double tracked between Tobyhana and Gouldsboro.

Drove by on Sat and there were cars on the tracks.

LV124, John was right on the money when he clarified my old post. In the 60's there was a ton of rail activity all around Easton and it was largely gone by the early 70's. I would love to see the customer list for the entire E & N, Bushkill and South Side branches. I remember my grandfather and ...

The Robinsville Industrial Track loosing another customer. The business section of the Trenton Times had a cover story on former NFL wide receiver Kevin Johnson and the fitness/sports center he is building on Rt 130. One pictures focuses on the Agway grain silos... " The iconic Agway building i...

http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; a link to old aerial photos of PA

Imagine the activity of the area when Beth Steel was in operation AND the RDG branch was still in! I was looking at old arials and surprised that the casino only occupies a tiny portion of the steel property. Where the casino is was a huge pit with cranes above it. Anyone know what that "pit&q...

There was three huge clam shell buckets; one to each of those traveling cranes, everything going into the furnaces was weighed. Riding across the Minsi Trail bridge you would see them dumping huge amounts of ore into the start of the process.