Playhouse Square

Looking east on Euclid Avenue, from spring of last year.

Delaware-Lackawanna 4103

DL 4103 in the Steamtown Yard a couple weeks ago.

Midwest Railway Preservation Society 123

MRPS 123 in Cleveland's Flats last fall. MRPS 123 was built in June 1950 as Oliver Mining 1109.

Delaware-Lackawanna 2457

DL 2457 on the C'dale line in the state office building parking lot, on a rainy Saturday last month.

Delaware-Lackawanna 3007

DL 3007 switching cars on the C'dale line behind the new bus station a few weeks back.

Lake Erie

View of Lake Erie from Edgewater Park on a nice warm day last fall.

Early Settlers

Log cabin built in 1976 on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland's Flats last fall. When Moses Cleaveland arrived, July 22, 1796, with his team of surveyors this area was mostly swamp. Today it's filled with all sorts of buildings, both commercial and residential.

Lackawanna 663

Lackawanna 663 behind the backshop a couple weeks ago.

RTA 2915

RTA 2915 westbound on Euclid Avenue, at 9th, May 7, 2019. These articulated buses run in a dedicated bus lane from Public Square to the Windermere Rapid Station. This is pretty much the same route the 6/6A plied years ago.

Rahway Valley 15

Rahway Valley 15 at Steamtown a couple weeks ago.

Scranton Police Memorial

The Scranton Police Memorial in front of Police Headquarters on South Washington Avenue.

Electric City Trolley

Philadelphia Suburban 76 at South Washington Street a couple weeks ago. Excursions have begun and run Thursday - Sunday, at 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 12:45 PM, 2:00 PM and 3:15 PM Thursday through Sunday, through November 1st.

Grandview Estates

Grandview Estates Furniture, 202 Center Street in downtown Oil City, May 2019.

Theodore Conrad

Often around this time of year, a story appears about Theodore Conrad, of Lakewood Ohio, who disappeared with $215,000 on July 11, 1969. Neither Conrad or the cash was ever seen again.

From The Plain Dealer, July 16, 1969.

Delaware-Lackawanna 4068

DL 4068 by the old scrap bins with a few gons, Steamtown office building in the background, from last Saturday morning.

Lake Linden

For years this huge pool of water has been on Linden Street, at Schultz Court. It grows in size, and shrinks occasionally due to lack of rain, it freezes in the winter, but it is always here. About a dozen years ago the city installed a drain, on the opposite side of the intersection, aka, the side the doesn't flood. So day after day, this pool of water sits here.

Shrink Wrapped Passenger Cars

Never saw this before, shrink wrapped passenger cars at Steamtown on Saturday morning.

I half expected this to say"sanitized for your protection."

Lackawanna 500

DL&W 500 in Steamtown Yard on Saturday morning.

Scranton Skyline

View from the Harrison Avenue Bridge on Saturday morning.

UofS Science Building

Hard to believe the U of S science building has been here for ten years already.

Step Falls

Step Falls was roaring yesterday with all the rain lately.

At a Theatre Near You

Neighborhood Theatre listings, from the Plain Dealer, July 4, 1920.

Cleveland Works 217

Cleveland Works (CROW) 217 along Independence Road, and Republic Steel, May 2019.

Quint's Army - Navy

Quints Army/Navy store on Lackawanna Avenue, July 2009. Most cities try and preserve buildings like this, but in Scranton they get razed for an unneeded car-park.

Reading 902 - 903

Reading 902-903 behind Lackawanna Station, July 2010.

Northbound Freight

A northbound freight on the Carbondale line a couple weeks ago.