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RE: (erielack) Erie Wyoming Division
Glad you liked it. It's a great way to get a real understanding of where things
were, and how they got there from here.
Sometimes also a thing to keep you up WAAAAY past your bedtimre . . . 8^)
SGL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gjokra_@_comcast.net [mailto:gjokra@comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:55 PM
> To: Schuyler Larrabee; 'Henry W Jarusik'; erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Erie Wyoming Division
>
> Schuyler,
> Thanks! that was great, I spent a few hours wandering around
> the Poconos checking all the old branches and railroad lines
> that I saw but did'nt know what they were. The older the map
> the more interesting they were!
> Greg O
>
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
> > If you want to follow the line along on old USGS maps, go to
> > http://historical.maptech.com/quadlist.cfm?stateabr=PA
> >
> > Pick the Hawley quad, and start with the north west
> part of that map. You can
> > follow it along by clicking appropriately. All the
> way to Scranton, I imagine.
> >
> > SGL
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net
> > > [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of
> > > gjokra_@_comcast.net
> > > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:32 PM
> > > To: Henry W Jarusik; erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> > > Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie Wyoming Division
> > >
> > >
> > > Henry,
> > > I too, lived along the line, however, later in the early
> > > eighties, in Wimmers, near Mt. Cobb. I don't have a
> good map
> > > of PA handy but I know where most of the line went. If you
> > > were in Lake Ariel, you were on the branch that ran just a
> > > few miles from the main. (2 point something miles) The line
> > > came up from Scranton through Cobb's Gap and
> crossed the DL&W
> > > and Roaring Brook at "Nay Aug". This is just under
> the I-380
> > > bridge outside of Dunmore. The tracks followed
> Roaring Brook
> > > across from the DL&W to just before the Elmhurst Reservoir
> > > where it ran along side RT 590 to the top of the
> "Saddle". at
> > > which point it went across the small valley to
> > > Wimmers,(Passing under I-84 first) then around the hill to
> > > Saco. Saco is on RT 348 and the tracks crossed at
> DeLeo's gas
> > > station. There was a small yard here. Next it went through
> > > Maplewood, near Lake Henry and crossed RT 196 near
> Varden. I
> > > remember a small village called Gravity which had a grade
> > > crossing but my map doesn't show it. This is where
> I lose the
> > > tracks until they surface near Hawley and connect with the
> > > Honesdale branch and follow the Lackawaxen river to
> > > Lackawaxen and the juction with the Main Line. The
> last train
> > > through this line was in 1969. There are very few
> pictures of
> > > this area as it was still very r!
> > > ural and traffic was fairly light by the late fifties. I
> > > know that the line followed the path of the
> Pennsylvania Coal
> > > Co. gravity railroad right of way for much of the way. If I
> > > get a chance to look at a better map online some
> more of the
> > > little villages along the way will jar my memory. The man I
> > > bought my house in Wimmers from was a retired conductor for
> > > the Erie. He passed away not long after I moved in so I
> > > didn't have a chance to get more stories from him.
> He did say
> > > that later on, because traffic was so light here that he
> > > would get off the train at his house and they would
> pick him
> > > up the next day. The crew would cover for him so he didn't
> > > have to drive to and from Dunmore so often. His wife was a
> > > Hollister, an early settler family.
> > > If anyone has more to offer about this end of the
> division it
> > > would be great to know more.
> > > Greg Okrasinski
> > > ELHS #2887
> > > -------------- Original message --------------
> > >
> > > > List:
> > > >
> > > > Was this the line that ran from Hawley, Pa. over to the
> > > Scranton area?
> > > > Can someone give me the general path it followed, and any
> > > other details?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Our family farm [Lake Ariel Post Office] is along
> this now
> > > abandoned
> > > > right-of-way. The line was active and then removed in the
> > > early 1960s.
> > > > I was too young to ever see any railroad activity
> on the line but
> > > > remember the rails being there looking functional
> and in service.
> > > >
> > > > The Erie burned down the farm house in the early
> 1930s from the
> > > > exhaust cinders igniting the roof. As my father told it,
> > > everyone came
> > > > home from church one Sunday to see the house
> burning down. I don't
> > > > know how it was resolved, but they did build a
> new house on
> > > the old foundation.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Henry Jarusik
> > > > New London, Pa
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Henry W Jarusik
> > > > hwjpa_@_fastem.com
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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