Sightings 10.18.09 / Backvalley Job

October 18. 2009

The Reading and Northern Backvalley job head to the Stauffer Industrial Park, site of the former Lackawanna Hampton Yard.

Later the locomotive returns through Duryea to Pittston Yard as the sun sets.

Normal operations of the R&N taking cars on the Backvalley Job to the Stauffer Industrial Park.

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From 1991 CONRAIL Timetable :

Taylor Secondary Track 

Distance from Hoboken 

136.7  TAYLOR (D&H Railway) 
136.7  BLS MINOOKA 
139.7  OLD FORGE 
142.8  PITTSTON JCT. 
  (Lehigh Sec and 
  Pocono Northeast RR)  

(Why is the distance 
listed as distance 
from Hoboken, since
trains have not run 
to Hoboken in many,
 many years ???)