#lackawanna

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[federer7]

Woman in Shopping Center Parking Lot. Lackawanna, New York. 1971

Photo: Arthur Tress

[mimi-0007]

In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his father (Jimmy Smits) after his parents separate. Run by the motherly Nanny Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) and her taciturn husband (Terrance Dashon Howard), the boardinghouse residents, including The Bandleader (Mos Def), singer Pauline (Macy Gray) and cabaret owner Dick Barrymore (Ernie Hudson), teach the young boy about life and art.

[1863-project]

Wrote a blog post about John Draney, the engineer whose best known feat was getting from Hoboken to Buffalo in a mere 6 hours and 45 minutes in 1901 in an attempt to get surgeons to President McKinley in time. This man's passion for speed knew no end, and I personally can appreciate that.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Table 8.8 lists some chemical properties of representative American examples of four ranks of coal. (...) Coal varies in quality and its potential to generate pollutants depends on its source (Table 8.8).

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

[brokenborders]

Look, I don't want to like trains, but the parasites in me fuck with them frfr

[autotrails]

American Auto Trail-Lackawanna Trail (Blairstown to Belvidere NJ)

American Auto Trail-Lackawanna Trail (Blairstown to Belvidere NJ) https://youtu.be/8mTHn2uTmX0 This American auto trail explores a portion of the Lackawanna Trail, from Blairstown to Belvidere, New Jersey, down the Paulins Kill and Delaware River valleys.

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Chicago Union Station Christmas Tree 2023

[briansolomonauthor]

Ghost of Phoebe Snow—Fortuity at New Milford

Last Sunday, we exited Interstate 81 at New Milford, PA to get gas. This was the last leg in our big move, and our third drive from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania in the last month, My plan was to follow old Route 11 toward Clark’s Summit. This avoids the traffic on I-81 and largely follows the old alignment of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. In fact in many places Route 11 is built on the…

[thebohemianloner]

Abandoned Lackawanna Railway Tunnels in Manunka Chunk, New Jersey

[20th-century-railroading]

"EL - great power"

Erie Lackawanna E8 831 leads 3 sisters as train PB100 with a pile of piggies arrives at Marion, Ohio for a crew and power change, getting close to Conrail day - March 6, 1976.

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Vent to me about trains if ya like :3

YAY :D

So the Milwaukee Road was the First Railroad to use the use 3000 Volt DC power for any significant stretches of Electrification in 1915 (it was adopted by South African Railways in 1925, Cleveland Union Terminal (under the New York Central Railroad), the Soviet Union in 1930, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1930, Italy in 1933, Brazil in 1935, Spain and Chile in 1945)

however the Primary mainline Electrification system United States would be 11,000 Volts 25 Hertz AC which was Adopted by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1907 between Pelham and Stamford in New York (later all the way between Manhattan and New Haven CT), the Pennsylvania in 1915 between Philadelphia and Paoli (later the Entire PRR mainline between Washington DC and New York as well the entire Philadelphia Suburban Network), the Great Northern railroad in 1922 between Wenatchee and Skykomish (de-electrified in 1956), the Virginian Railroad in 1925 between Mullens and Roanoke (de-electrified in 1962), the Reading Railroad in 1928 for their Half of the Philadelphia Suburban Network, and very Briefly the Norfolk and Western had Electrified the Elkhorn grade with this system but de-electrified in 1940

@amtrak-official

[fishmech]

Welcome to Joe Biden world

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

I'm reading old reports from before the official formation of NJ Transit right now...

This dates to 1978, and they were still determining what to do with the former Erie-Lackawanna trackage, particularly with regards to upgrading the electrification on some lines. At the time, the passenger service was being operated by Conrail under contract to the NJ Department of Transportation. NJ Transit was founded in 1979, and it officially took over passenger service in 1983.

I'm obsessed with this guy who proposed a suggestion without realizing he was reinventing Manhattan Transfer:

Transcription:

Commuter Alternative Proposed: Dear Editor: Many readers of The Star-Ledger commute on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The state of New Jersey has proposed to re-electrify the line so passengers can ride to New York's Penn Station. I would like to offer an alternate proposal. The state is accepting delivery of new multiple unit cars from General Electric. These cars are slated to be used on the Erie-Lackawanna. However, it will be years before these cars can be used because they are designed to use AC power and the E-L has DC power. There is local opposition to the project due to noisy substations. Finally, how are passengers on the E-L diesel trains going to get to New York's Penn Station? The state should discontinue accepting the new cars pending specification [revision?]. Future cars should be [?] to use DC power, the power the E-L now uses [?] Harrison, where the Erie-Lackawanna and the Penn Central tracks come close together, a station should be built. There would be a high level platform with the E-L on one side and the Penn Central on the other. ALL E-L trains bound for Hoboken would stop here. Passengers wishing to travel to New York's Penn Station would change to waiting Penn Central trains. Those wishing to go to Hoboken would stay on the E-L trains. E-L passengers coming home from New York would change at Harrison to waiting E-L trains. The new AC multiple-unit cars the state now has would provide the shuttle between Harrison and New York. The DC cars of the future would provide the service between E-L points and Harrison. Diesel train passengers as well as those on E-L electric trains could use this service. This service could be instituted much sooner and at far less cost than the state's plan of electrification. Joel N. Rovick, Long Branch

Manhattan Transfer, located in Harrison, NJ, just like where this person wanted to put their version, was active from 1910 to 1937, and its entire purpose was to transfer people from one type of power to another - steam locomotives would pull the trains up until that point, and then passengers would switch over to an electric multiple unit to go under the Hudson into Penn Station. You could also transfer to the PATH (then the H&M) here starting in 1911. Once the PRR electrified south of the station, however, there was no longer a need for it - note that it closed in 1937, and the GG1s had entered service a few years prior starting in 1934. Newark Penn Station, fully electrified, negated the need for a transfer point for both the PRR and the PATH - today you can go straight along the Northeast Corridor through Newark right into New York Penn Station, and you can take the PATH from Newark all the way to the World Trade Center instead of having to take it from Manhattan Transfer.

The only reason Manhattan Transfer lasted beyond 1933, when the PRR was running electric trains through and south of it, was for that PATH transfer. Once that was no longer needed, it was only a matter of time.

I just think it's funny that this person may have unknowingly done this, because this newspaper article ran in 1978, 41 years after the station closed. Depending on the writer's age, it might not have even existed in their lifetime.

And I guess their idea did sort of come into fruition years later, but in a much different location - Secaucus Junction.

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s. epatha merkerson as rachel 'nanny' crosby in lackawanna blues

primetime emmy award winner for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie

[trainmaniac]

Ridge Row Switching by Joseph Randall Via Flickr: Delaware-Lackawanna Job PO-74 switches out the cars they picked up earlier from NS as DL3 to assemble the train they would be taking up the Poconos. This task ended up taking way longer than it should have because they apparently were asked by the secret service to clear out the yard of any freight cars as a "security measure" in anticipation of Sleepy Uncle Amtrak Joe's visit to Steamtown the next day. Anyways, while this lead to very frustrating wait while they tried to figure out the hell they were even doing, it did at least lead to a nice afternoon chase to Pocono Summit with angles that usually wouldn't be possible to shoot with this lighting in the morning. Also, having the 2452 & 2461 on the point, the two original Erie Lackawanna engines on property, was a nice bonus as well since both of these engines would have regularly ran on this line back in the 60s & 70s. 10-19-21