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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLCM_lackawanna-county_Scranton-PA.html
Formed August 13, 1878 from Luzerne County, it was Pennsylvania's 67th and last county created. The name is an Indian word meaning "stream that forks." Scranton, the county seat, was made a city, 1866. It became the anthracite coal mining capital …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD42_dl-w-coal-hoppers_Scranton-PA.html
Hopper cars like these carried the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's heaviest and most profitable freight - anthracite coal.
With increases in coal production came the need to increase hauling capacity. In the decades before 1900, the D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD41_long-island-railroad-193-rotary-snow-plow_Scranton-PA.html
This rotary snow plow (built in 1898) worked the Long Island Railroad for sixty-nine years, until its retirement in 1967.
The Long Island #193 was a Canadian-invented plow designed to reduce the cost of snow removal. Much like a modern snowblo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD40_claremont-concord-snow-plow-60_Scranton-PA.html
Coupled in front of the locomotive, this type of wedge-shaped plow simply pushed snow to the side. Because of their reliance on a locomotive's momentum, plows were often operated at high speeds - a practice fraught with danger. Nonetheless, snow r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3Z_bullard-company-2_Scranton-PA.html
This oil-burning steam engine was designed to be operated by a single engineer-fireman and was among the smallest standard-gauge locomotives ever built.
Locomotive #2 operated up and down the railroad sidings and loading tracks outside the Bull…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3Y_steamtown-national-historic-site_Scranton-PA.html
(1) Locomotive Erecting Shop (1909) - where heavy maintenance was done on locomotives. More than 70 locomotives were built here. The facility included a foundry, blacksmith shop, machine shop, and a laboratory.
(2) Office and Storage Building (…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3W_canadian-national-railways-47_Scranton-PA.html
In 1914, the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada purchased six 4-6-4T locomotives from the Montreal Locomotive Works, a division of the American Locomotive Company. This Baltic tank locomotive carried coal and water in a coal bin and water tank built in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3V_rahway-valley-15_Scranton-PA.html
Baldwin Locomotive Works delivered this engine, a 2-8-0 Consolidation-type locomotive, to the Oneida & Western Railroad in 1916. In 1937, after twenty-one years of grueling Tennessee mountain service, the Oneida & Western Railroad sold it to the R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3U_reading-2124_Scranton-PA.html
Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during the mid 1920s as a 2-8-0, the Reading Company rebuilt #2124 among thirty other engines, as a 4-8-4 Northern in January 1947.
Reading Northerns were heavy-duty freight locomotives assigned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3T_grand-trunk-western-6039_Scranton-PA.html
In 1925, the Grand Trunk Western Railway purchased five 4-8-2 Mountain locomotives, numbered 6037 through 6041, from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. These coal-burning locomotives had cylinder-shaped Vanderbilt tenders and enclosed all-weather cabs.…