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11.08.98 stg-1108 Live from the field via my Sharp Wizard 1 MB: Well I got a late start today around 3:00 PM and missed a lot of action. Yatesville - Crossing work is complete at Stout Street. The Pittston Dispatch wrote in an article thatr crossing work on the MacAlpine Street crossing in Avoca will be done from Nov. 10-14 Pittston Junction - L and S 30, a few hopper cars, and some MOW equip Kerr McGee Lead - R and N Tamper One and BR-110 are still there. Taylor Yard - As I walk to the yard I see the remains of the Moffat Colliery on the hill across the street. Some of the concerte breaker still stands, but it has no discerable shape. The roof and walls of a bulding is nestled among the birch trees One CP unit is barely visiable in the yard. There is some MOW erquip on the two tracks that thy just did over. You can see the new ballast clearly. An Agway truck is in the parking lot. It is now 4:00, cloudy and pretty dark. I finish the roll of 800 film that I have in my camera. I check the middle of the yard. Some containers, trailers and cars, but most of the middle is empty. Montage Mountain - There are a lot of hoppers on the siding that goes to Mactac and the plastics company in that little industrial park. The grade crossings on Montage Mtn Road have been marked with crossbucks, but no lights or gates. I swing onto 502 and go under the bridge that still bears Erie markings. Further down the road, I see were the coal hoppers used to be. I think it was Devechio Trucking. Down 502 some more I can make out a grade and some long abndoned tracks that ends in the back of Charge's Diner and the Millazo Industries warehouse. The warehouse still has a spur connected to the CP |