Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad - Pocono Mountain Route - Alco Action

Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad - Pocono Mountain Route - Alco Action

On September 29th, 2021, we chased the Delaware-Lackawanna's Cresco Turn from Moscow to Cresco Pennsylvania with four classic veteran Alco locomotives that the DL is known for. They did not disappoint with some great sites and sounds as they climbed the grade.

Power:

DL 3642 - Alco C636 - Ex-DL 6793 - Delta Terminal 1001 - CR 6792 - nee PC 6342
DL 3007 - Alco M630 - MLW-built; ex-GECX 5000 - BCOL 706 - nee PGE 706
DL 2452 - Alco C425 - Ex-BCOL 802 - nee EL 2452
DL 2045 - Alco M420 - MLW-built; ex-BCR 642 - nee BCR 642

00:00 Moscow, PA
02:08 Covington Township
03:55 Snag Pond
04:22 Tobyhanna
04:58 Tobyhanna Train Station
06:22 Cresco

The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad (reporting mark DL) is a shortline railroad operating in Northeastern Pennsylvania, especially the Scranton area.

DL began service in August 1993 and is the designated operator for 88 miles (142 kilometres) of trackage in Lackawanna, Wayne, Northampton, and Monroe Counties. It is a subsidiary of holding company Genesee Valley Transportation Company, Inc. (GVT). It was founded by Jeffrey Baxter, Charles Riedmiller, John Herbrand, Michael Thomas and David Monte Verde who continue to make up its corporate ownership.

GVT began in 1985 in upstate New York marketing rail-related services to both private and public industry throughout the northeast.

Through a competitive bid process, the Lackawanna County Rail Authority selected GVT to operate its owned rail lines within Lackawanna and Monroe counties from Scranton northeast to the city of Carbondale on the former Delaware & Hudson Railway's Penn Division mainline (now called the Carbondale Mainline), from Scranton southeast to Slateford Junction in Monroe County on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's (DL&W) Southern Division mainline (now called the Pocono Mainline), and from Scranton southwest to Montage Mountain and Minooka on lines of the former Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad electric interurban streetcar line, known as the Laurel Line. The line is still known as the Laurel Line with the Minooka Industrial Track connected to it.

More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delawar...

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