The Lackawanna Railroad in Northeastern Pennsylvania

The Lackawanna Railroad in Northeastern Pennsylvania

by Arcadia Publishing
The Lackawanna Railroad in Northeastern Pennsylvania

The Lackawanna Railroad in Northeastern Pennsylvania

by Arcadia Publishing

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Overview

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, better known as the Lackawanna Railroad, was organized in 1851 and thrived on the anthracite coal traffic originating from the area surrounding Scranton, Pennsylvania.

The company came to operate a network of track between Hoboken, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York, before becoming part of the Erie Lackawanna Railway in 1960. During the first decade of the 1900s, the railroad underwent a substantial modernization and improvement project, which was documented extensively by company-hired photographers. A century later, these images provide a fascinating insight into the everyday workings of a railroad and its interaction with the communities along its route. Nearly all of the railroad territory covered by this book remains in operation today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467121682
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 07/14/2014
Series: Images of Rail
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,083,519
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

David Crosby is a student of industrial history in addition to his employment as a train dispatcher in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Much of his dispatching territory consists of lines that were once operated by the Lackawanna Railroad and is depicted in this book. Crosby has also written two other books for Arcadia Publishing—Images of Rail: Scranton Railroads and Then & Now: Scranton.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Illustrating an Industry 9

2 Crossing the Delaware 15

3 The Bangor and Portland Branch 19

4 Through the Pocono Mountains 25

5 Scranton 47

6 The Bloomsburg Branch 79

7 West to New York 97

8 The Lackawanna Railroad Today 123

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