Lackawanna Railroad: Roaring Brook Bridge

A view of the Lackawanna Railroad bridge over Roaring Brook, just west of the Nay Aug Tunnel. This bridge was built in 1955 to replace the one that was destroyed in Hurricane Diane in August 1955. The old bridge was a large stone arch structure, similar to the Erie bridge below, which is further upstream. Hard to believe that the creek was high enough to send water through the tunnel. 26 miles of track was washed out between Scranton and Analomink.

Scranton: Unknown Ruin

This is in Nay Aug Park, just below the Laurel Line right-of-way. It's in close proximity to the unknown ruin posted below.

Erie Railroad: Scranton Branch

I was able to get a better shot of the Scranton Branch bridge over Roaring Brook this morning. It's not in the best of shape, but it's still standing, after at least 100 years, and probably alot longer.

Nay Aug Falls

The falls was really roaring this morning. Compare this view, with the one below from last Sunday.

Lackawanna Railroad: Nay Aug Tunnel

A view of the east end of Nay Aug Tunnel, from last Sunday. We forgot there wasn't a morning train.

Scranton: Unknown Ruin

This is located in Nay Aug Park, along the remaining stretch of the Laurel Line's Dunmore Branch. It's at the far west end, high above the DL&W bridge over Roaring Brook. It's far enough away from the Laurel Line right-of-way, so it might not be part of that, could it be some remnant of the gravity road?

Nay Aug Falls

We stopped off by Nay Aug Falls yesterday, the Roaring Brook was living up to it's name after Friday's heavy rains.

Erie Railroad: Dunmore Yard

This is a map of the Erie RR yard in Dunmore, circa 1918. The bridge in the photo below is located at the bottom left, over the Roaring Brook. At the bottom right is the Erie line to Hawley, around there is where the Bunker Hill Colliery was located. Just west of that is the branch that runs from West Junction. Running through this, is the triple track main line of the DL&W. Also visible are the Laurel Line, and the Scranton Railway Co trolley lines.

Erie Railroad: Scranton Branch

This is the Erie RR Scranton Branch bridge over Roaring Brook. This is located just north of Ash Street. I didn't know this was there until today. This will require further exploration in the not too distant future. This branch terminated at the Erie passenger station on North Washington Avenue. Today the station, under numerous additions and alterations is Cooper's Restaurant.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

A view, looking north, along the Erie tracks. This is just north of the area in the photos below. From last Fridays expedition into the Meadow Brook Valley.

Along the Erie

This is the area behind the wall above the tracks. We're not sure what this is. We'd thought this might be some kind of retaining wall, but the stones stacked above ground level lead us to believe this is something else. Could this be remains from the headhouse of the No.5 plane?

Along the Erie

On our journey last Friday, we climbed up to this wall above the Erie tracks. This would be between milepost 12 and 13.

Laurel Line: South of Connell Junction

A view of the trolley, headed south, just south of Connell Jct, approaching the bridge abutments. Taken last Friday morning.

Meadow Brook Valley

A copy of a 1918 plat map of the Meadow Brook Valley. North is at top. This gives a rough idea of one of the areas being explored. The bridge abutments in some of the trolley photos were taken where the road crosses the Laurel Line tracks, shown as McConnell's Junction on this map. For some reason the Meadow Brook Crushed Stone Company isn't shown, although it was in operation at the time. What is usually refered to as Connell Junction is where the "over the hill" line meets the "tunnel line" on the Laurel Line tracks. The Laurel Line did have a Connell Junction station, near the location of the bridge abutments. Once the stone company closed, it didn't see too many riders, usually hikers in the woods.

Lackawanna Railroad

This morning we caught eastbound Canadian National 3254 about to cross the bridge over Roaring Brook. The train is headed towards the west portal of Nay Aug Tunnel. This is the former Lackawanna main line out of Scranton.

Laurel Line: Stafford's Meadow Brook

After the trolley passed, we hiked down the right-of-way to the bridge over Stafford's Meadow Brook. With all the rain yesterday, the creek was running high. This is just a short distance south of the old bridge abutments.

Laurel Line: South of Connell Junction

We were able to catch the trolley, headed north, back to Scranton, at about 11:15 AM. This is one of our favorite spots. It was the first time we'd been down here since the bee incident back in August. Needless to say we didn't go poking around the old bridge abutments.

Along the Erie

We got to take a hike down through the Meadow Brook Valley this morning. It was quite wet walking down through there. A view, looking north, from along the Erie tracks, south of milepost 13.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

On our journey, I scampered down the hillside, and got a couple better photos of this bridge over the unnamed creek.

Along the Erie

On our walk last Sunday we spotted this turtle walking down the tracks. Not sure where he was going, but there is a number of marshy areas nearby.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

This is from about the same location as below, but looking north.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

Fall is on the way, the leaves our coming off the trees pretty quickly now. This is along the Erie, just north of the short bridge, over the unnamed creek. The tracks are on the left. This would be around where milepost 14 should be, but we have yet to see it, although it may no longer exist.

Lackawanna Railroad

Another view as the locomotive races out of the tunnel, roaring past us, on it's way into the Poconos.

Lackawanna Railroad

This morning we caught Canadian National 3254 as it blasted out of the east end of Nay Aug Tunnel on it's way to Tobyhanna.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

A section of track washed out, north of milepost 15.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

This is a page of an Erie Railroad employee timetable, from Sunday June 6, 1920. This was reproduced in Erie: A Pictorial Review, by Edward F. Gardner in the early 1970's. These books contain alot of information on a number of the anthracite roads, and can usually be found at train shows.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

This is in the vicinity of Milepost 15, the tracks are covered by heavy growth.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

This is the area next to the tracks, just north of the mine opening, near milepost 15. At one time the line was double track from Milepost 6.3 Avoca, to Milepost 17.8 Nay Aug. I'm not sure when the line was single tracked. This is looking north.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

A view of the area around the milepost. Note the retaining wall in the background. This is just a little north of the mine opening.

Erie Railroad: Wyoming Division

Best of all, we found milepost 15, thanks to a comment below. We must have walked past this 5-6 times before we finally found it.

Along the Erie

Another view of the opening.

Along the Erie

Took our usual hike down the Erie tracks yesterday. We were able to get some better photos of the mine opening north of Sadler St. I'm thinking this might be some kind of air shaft. The land behind this, east of the tracks, was once owned by the Pennsylvania Coal Company, which was a sudsidiary of the Erie.