Lackawanna Cut-Off- Part 25: The Other Lackawanna Cut-Off - w/Josh Stull

A trip from Scranton, PA to Binghamton, NY, highlighting the Clarks Summit-Hallstead Cut-Off (the "Other" Lackawanna Cut-Off) in-between. Chuck will start at Scranton, PA, and will make a stop at Chinchilla, PA before starting the Cut-Off trek at Clarks Summit. We will follow the old railroad right-of-way (now US Route 11) that the Cut-Off replaced to Nicholson, where we will see the world-famous Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct. Here, we will meet up with Josh Stull, a local historian who grew up in Nicholson, and who will be our tour guide at the 1849 station in Josh's hometown. (For more details on the station, and its preservation, please see https://www.nicholsonheritage.org/?fb...) After Nicholson, we will visit Foster (which is really called Hop Bottom). We'll visit the Martin's Creek Viaduct, the smaller sister of the Nicholson Viaduct. After that, we'll Alford station and tower. (Alford station was still standing when we recorded this video; it was recently torn down, unfortunately.) Then, we move on to the "west" end of the Cut-Off at Hallstead, where Chuck raises a question that requires an answer...and off we go to New Milford, PA to get that answer (and a tour of the part of the Cut-Off that is no more!). (We'll also try to locate the site of the fatal wreck east of Hallstead that occurred on October 19, 1927.) Finally, we rejoin Josh at the 1901 station in Binghamton, NY where see the Marconi Tower and where Chuck talks about Amtrak service, the cut-off that was never built, and the connection between the Lackawanna Railroad and the New York Yankees (and you'll literally get to see a home run hit).