I am new to this forum - can anyone tell me why the Lackawanna RR (DL&W) is not included in the list? Using anthracite was certainly it's main advertising factor. Remember Phoebe Snow, who never got her white clothes sooty?
Yes, the DL&W is usually considered an "Anthracite road"..thats true.
but its not lumped into this forum simply because there is a separate Erie-DL&W-EL forum on railroad.net.
There were once separate forums for many of the railroads here, LV, CNJ and RDG had their own forums..
a decision was made (unnecessary, in my opinion) to lump many of them together into this one forum..
but Erie-DL&W-EL was deemed "large enough" to remain in their own forum..
So DL&W is not here simply due to specific decisions of the RR.net powers that be, and because the DL&W
makes more sense in a combined Erie-DL&W-EL forum that it does in this forum..those are the only reasons.
has nothing to do with DL&W not being considered an "Anthracite road"..
Scot