Four Day Pennsylvania Trip - 3

Hi, On Thursday October 14, the third day of our trip, Bill Kalkman and I had information that a crew would head out to Moosic, PA on DL's Laurel Line and then work the line to Carbondale, PA on their return from Moosic. Therefore, we decided to start our day in the parking lot across from Tower 60; which appears in a few of the photos.

When we arrived there were almost no cars in the yard and only one locomotive in the area around Tower 60. We decided to wait around to see what happened. 

While we we were waiting Steamtown opened its gate so we relocated to their parking lot and took photos. The above photo shows the period freight with the Rahway Valley 2-8-0 on the point.

A Geep in Nickle Plate colors was switching (above and below) and

former Reading FP7s were on display.

Eventually, the train we expected off the Laurel Line arrived, however, on the mainline. The crew cut off the two locomotive shown above (an Alco RS-11 and an Alco RS-32, painted red) off the power set and

began switching with the other two locomotives (Alco C-425s).

Next the crew reboarded the locomotives that had been set out. They are shown here passing Tower 60.

We headed out along the line to Carbondale and got our first shot at East Parker Street in Scranton.

 

Next up was Boulevard Avenue in Dickson City and then

Church Street in Jessop, PA.

There was a large open area behind the Rapid Pallet Company in Jermyn, PA. The crew must had some work to do as it took time for the train get here; enough time for us to eat lunch (above and below).

The train worked a number of industries in Carbondale (above and five below).

The crew left their train at a siding where it would not block grade crossings and proceeded to the end of the line with just locomotives.

At the end of the line they coupled to a string of covered hoppers (above and below).

The crew then proceeded to the west end of their train. As we could not find the cars that had been left behind and we did not know what the crew would do we elected to see if we could get a photo of the Reading and Northern train NRFF. As it turned out the crew outlawed before returning to Scranton.

We found a clear spot to phtotograph the NRFF at Mountain Top, PA but the train beat us to Pittston, PA.

Thanks for looking.