The only "local feeder roads" in Tobyhanna are routes 611 and 423—both two-lane highways (except 611 within Tobyhanna)...and "Tobyhanna Road" in Goudlsboro, another two-laner. Make Tobyhanna the terminus, and it'll be a bigger mess than it is now (and there's a lot more traffic than one may think, what with the housing communities adjacent).
There is
no parking space in Tobyhanna, anywhere in the
village. (And yes, it's a village and no larger.) None can be built convenient to the train station. And nobody in Coolbaugh Township would accede to it being built, because route 423 simply cannot take the traffic load.
Using Tobyhanna Army Depot's tracks as layover yards? Out of the question. Not only are there security issues and no maintenance/refueling facilities there, but the crossovers
face the wrong way—towards Scranton. Imagine the train not being able to get into the station when the D-L or CP is servicing Keystone Propane? And there's that manual crossover on the Tobyhanna-Gouldsboro road...
As a two-year resident of Tobyhanna, I'm going on record to state that such an idea is a non-starter. The estimate of 45 pax from Scranton daily is grossly understated—Scranton is a far larger city than Port Jervis just for starters, and it's experiencing an economic comeback what with being convenient to Monroe County residents among other factors, not to mention that there is a lot of underutilized railroad property on which station and facilities can be built.
JoeG wrote:It would still be a grueling commute from the Poconos to the NY Metro area
Try driving it during 6 am, Joe (and leaving your house at 5 am—you'd reach Exit 27 in NJ at 6, and the traffic would be there ahead of you). I did that for the first half of 2003, and I was going to/from Linden. Sometimes took four hours eastbound—
without accidents on the highway. A train would be far, far less "grueling"...