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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD27_1902-1937-inspection-pit_Scranton-PA.html
Stalls inside the 1902/1937 roundhouse had below-grade work pits. These shallow brick and concrete-lined pits ran down the center of each stall and extended from the front to the rear walls of the roundhouse.
Upon a locomotive's arrival at the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD25_1902-1937-roundhouse_Scranton-PA.html
The roundhouse was and is the heart of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W) yards. Here, mechanics perform daily maintenance on steam locomotives - routine inspections, light repairs, and boiler washes. Hissing steam, pounding hammers, and th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1R_pennsylvania-boxcars_Scranton-PA.html
Boxcars were the backbone of the railroads' non-bulk freight business. During a journey, a freight car was often coupled and uncoupled to several different trains. As a result, one company's freight cars might be found on a dozen different lines. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1P_e-j-lavino-company-3_Scranton-PA.html
The American Locomotive Company built this 0-6-0T saddle tank industrial switch locomotive in 1927. E.J. Lavino and Company put the #3 to work at its Sheridan, Pennsylvania, yards.
E.J. Lavino and Company operated a ferro-manganese blast furnac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1E_new-haven-trap-rock-company-43_Scranton-PA.html
The Vulcan Iron Works built engine #43, an industrial saddle tank 0-4-0T switcher, in 1919. The engine was purchased by C.W. Blakeslee and Sons out of New Haven, Connecticut, for work at their New Haven Trap Rock Company quarry.
At the quarry,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD0T_turntable_Scranton-PA.html
The hub of the roadhouse complex was the turntable. From here, tracks radiated like spokes into each roundhouse stall.
Engines returning to the roundhouse for maintenance rolled through a narrow two-track passage onto the turntable. An operator…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD0S_oil-house_Scranton-PA.html
During the steam era, railroads across the United States constructed oil houses to safely store the flammable oils and greases used in railroad operations and maintenance.
The DL&W built this reinforced concrete and steel oil house in 1912 in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD0Q_tank-car_Scranton-PA.html
More than a century ago, railroads developed special cars to carry liquids - usually crude oil and petroleum products - without separate containers or packaging. Since many liquids required special linings, most tank cars were owned by individual …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD0P_oil-house-foundation_Scranton-PA.html
The brick border on the plaza area in front of you marks the location of the underground foundation and cellar of an oil house built about 1870.
This oil house is the earliest known oil storage and distribution facility at the Delaware, Lackawa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6TK_the-delaware-lackawanna-western-railroad-company_Scranton-PA.html
1851 - 1951Commemorating the100th AnniversaryofThe Delaware, Lackawanna & WesternRailroad CompanyHere in Scranton, Pennsylvania was conceived and brought to successful completion the first segment of what is now the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Weste…