Allentown
Altoona
Ardmore
Belzwood
Bryn Athyn
Buena Vista
Camp Hill
Columbia
Cumberland Valley
Curwensville
Delaware Water Gap
Eagles Mere
Edgewood
Ellentown
Erie
Glen Rock
Harrisburg
Jim Thorpe
Langhorne - SEPTA
Lebanon
Manheim
Manns Choice
Marysville
McKeesport
New Castle
New Freedom
Nicholson
Northumberland
Olyphant
Orbisonia
Palmerton
Parkerford
Perdix
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Rockville
Rupert
Scranton
Sellersville
Siegfried
Somerton - SEPTA
Strafford - SEPTA
Susquehanna
Thompson
Tobyhanna
Towanda
Woodbourne - SEPTA
York
ex PRR Harrisburg Depot
ex PRR Maclay Street Depot
I can't tell you anything about this station, because I cannot find any information on it, anywhere.... Maybe someone out there knows? Found the postcard on EBay!ex PRR Harris Tower
The HARRIS tower in Harrisburg PA. It opened (I believe) in June 2010, and is supposed to be open on Saturdays between 10am and 4pm, but don't count on the hours if you are making a trip specifically to see the tower, as I stopped by recently shortly after 3pm, and it was already closed. It is just north of the Amtrak depot. Also in the area is the Rockville bridge north of H'burg in Marysville, and Enola yard, on the south side of I81 along US11.
ex PRR Capitol Tower
ex CNJ Depot
Many thanks to Jim Spears for the use of his photo.
Langhorne
Philadelphia & Reading RR Depot
former RR Warehouse ex PRR Depot
Marysville is on the western bank of the Susquehanna River,
north of Harrisburg PA. The information is from a friend who prefers to
remain anonymous. But a BIG Thanks goes to him for detailing the photo and
providing the history! ex B&O Depot
Depot #2
Depot #3
ex PRR Depot
A SEPTA commuter rail station on the West Trenton line.
GPS Coordinates: 40.343180, -76.424289 (please note: Wikipedia's GPS coordinates
are WRONG!)
You can just make out the Banjo signals at the rear of the station property on the left!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_station_(Reading_Railroad)
http://www.west2k.com/pastations/lebanon.shtml railroad stations of Lebanon
Co
From
Google Maps in 2017
picture
by Smallbones, from Wikipedia
GPS Coordinates: 40.348931, -76.422591
former C&L (Cornwall & Lebanon RR) Depot
GPS Coordinates: 40.348931, -76.422591
Notice the two depots are only a block away from each other!
A picture found on EBay of the depot that used to be in Mann's
Choice, southwest of the interchange of the Pennsy Turnpike and I-99 heading up
to Altoona.
A "stranded" depot. CSX (ex B&O) tracks
are behind on the fill. Dunno anything about it, but it sure would be a
great place for a model railroad club, and/or a live steam club!!!
This depot is located almost in the middle of the downtown area.
This depot is located in the downtown area, the front of which houses a photo studio.
New Castle is also home to the New Castle Industrial RR,
and Kasgro, which specializes in large capacity railroad cars. Several of
the old Westinghouse cars for carrying transformers can be seen in their yard.
ex DL&W Freight House
The following is from: http://www.nicholsonheritage.org/dlw-railroad-station/
History of the Railroad Station:
The Nicholson Station was the first, and largest, station built by the Liggett’s Gap Railroad on its line from Scranton, PA to Great Bend, PA in 1849/1850. Initially, the wood station was used to board transient workers before being used to handle freight and passengers. As many as one hundred workmen slept on the second floor of the station during construction. The north section of the first floor, the freight room, was the big dining hall and the south portion of the first floor was a kitchen, living room, and bedroom for family.
The Liggett’s Gap Railroad was a predecessor to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W), which was the one of the earliest railroads in the region. Railroads were crucial in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, the Industrial Age of the United States, to changing how goods, people, and services moved, especially by, literally, opening small rural communities like Nicholson to the “rest of the world.” Railroads like the DL&W moved coal, iron and steel out of Scranton through towns including Nicholson to where it was needed outside the region. They fueled our nation’s economy.
Additionally, all along the DL&W from Scranton to Binghamton, stations to receive milk were built at places most convenient to area dairy farmers. The largest milk station was at Nicholson, just north of the Nicholson station. Milk was then shipped on the lines to Scranton and Binghamton.
Nicholson was the most important stop between Scranton and Binghamton as it sent and received more passengers and freight and brought more profit to the DL&W than any other station along the line, and for some years it was more than all the other stations combined. Reverend Garford Williams reported in the January 15, 1954 edition of the Nicholson Examiner that “in 1854, the Nicholson station received 3,459 passengers who paid $1,741.32 in fares from all DL&W railroad points to Nicholson. The same year, Nicholson sent out 2,562 passengers on the Lackawanna Railroad, who paid $1,778.79 in fares to all railroad points.” It’s interesting to note that the 1880 U.S. Census records that there were 586 residents in Nicholson.
In 1855, the local Post Office moved from the edge of the settlement to the station, at which time the name was changed from Baconville (sometimes also referred to as Bacontown), after the town’s second Postmaster (Nathan Bacon), to Nicholson, named after John Nicholson, the former comptroller general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1794 who greatly influenced our early Nation. For some time, the station agent, Albert King, was also the postmaster. For fifty years, the Nicholson station employed a passenger agent, a freight agent, telegrapher, and several assistants.
Between the years 1870 and 1883, all trains had to be switched at the Nicholson station; requiring a switch man to be on duty at all times day and night. About this time there were five stage coach routes out of Nicholson that made connections with the DL&W. Also, with Nicholson being the low spot on the rail line, all trains out of Nicholson needed a push up and out of the town. The “Nicholson Pusher” was a helper engine, with two engines added later, used to push or pull long freight trains either way out of Nicholson. Because of this, there was a turntable in Nicholson, with three siding tracks and one switch track, all that were connected to the main line.
In May 1878, the first telephone service in the area was installed when service was opened between the Nicholson and Scranton Stations, about 21 miles south. The station was THE center of the community.
After the DL&W built the Cut-Off that was opened in 1915, the original wood station only handled freight while passenger service was provided by the newly built concrete station on the hill next to the also newly constructed largest reinforced concrete bridge in the world, the Tunkhannock Viaduct, known as the Nicholson Bridge to local residents. The old main line was eventually sold to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to become State Route 11. In 1941, Route 11 was widened, and the ticket bay window and part of the roof on the Route 11 side were removed.
The wood station continued to handle freight after the DL&W merger with the Erie Railroad (becoming the Erie Lackawanna Railroad) in 1960. From the October 16, 1970, Nicholson Examiner article about the Nicholson station agent, it’s stated that the station “is the last station between Scranton (PA) and Binghamton (NY) to remain open.” This further illustrates the importance of the Nicholson station not just to the community, but to the region as well.
Due to financial hardship, the Erie Lackawanna Railroad closed the station in 1971. The building was then sold in 1983 to a local business and in private use until bought by the Nicholson Heritage Association in June 2012.
ex PRR Depot
East Broad Top Railfan Guide
This station is now a restaurant, having been purchased from Conrail in 1981. They built one addition to the front
of the station, and another to the right, placing two ex Pennsy passenger
cars on the outside of the addition. The food is good and reasonable, and if you are in the area, you should make a point of stopping in
for lunch or dinner. Northumberland is about 50 miles north of Harrisburg and I81.
This depot has served the EBT - East Broad Top, for many, many
years, and we hope for many to come..... The foggy picture almost looks like it
could be in 1940.
ex CNJ Depot
Many thanks to Jim Spears for the use of his photo.
ex NC/PRR "BANKS" Tower
Perdix, although I have driven through there many, many times, wasn't a familiar name until a friend sent out these pictures and I looked it up. Banks tower was
the first tower west of the Rockville Bridge (in blue) and Marysville. My friend states: "NC," of course, stood for Northern Central, as that's where the NC's
Baltimore-Sunbury main line crossed the PRR's Middle Division. It was constructed in 1912, and demolished in the late 1980s. (Originally the diamond had been at "HA" Hailey's Station, a
half mile to the east.) The pictures are from February 1978.
Philadelphia Railfan Guide
30th Street -- Amtrak/SEPTA/NJT
Oak Lane
ZOO Tower
For suburban Philadelphia commuter stations, also see:
Langhorne - SEPTA
Somerton - SEPTA
Woodbourne - SEPTA
Railfan Guide to the Rockville Bridge
Postcards found on EBay, many more pictures on the railfan guide page....
This former DL&W depot is now one of Scranton's premier hotel,
the Radisson.
Tower 60
Mattes Ave Tower
ex CNJ Depot
ex D&H Freight Shed
Misc Tower
ex Erie RR Depot
York
Check out my
York railfan guide for more pictures and info.