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Wyoming

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Creek Branch

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Hollow

Branch

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outh

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WILKES-BARRE

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Delaware & Hudson

DL&W

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western

Erie

Erie

E&WV

Erie & Wyoming Valley

L&WV

Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley (Laurel Line) electric

LV

Lehigh Valley

MM&C

Moosic Mountain & Carbondale

NYO&W New York, Ontario & Western

NYS&W New York, Susquehanna & Western

PRR

Pennsylvania

SB

Spring Brook (4��3�� gauge) aband. 1890

SC

Susquehanna Connecting

WB&E

Wilkes-Barre & Eastern

WB&H

Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton aband. 1933, electric

WBC

Wilkes-Barre Connecting

WP-E

West Pittston-Exeter

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IN

TA

UN

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M

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DL&W

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Branch

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(D&H, NYO&W)

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(Er

ie)

Riverside

Jessup Yard

Jct.

)

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W

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x

(e

Archbald

Waddell

Erie

Jessup

Mt. Jessup

Winton

Gravity Slope

Erie C)Jct.

&

Jct. Moosic

(ex MM

NYS&W

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Branch

ln

co

Chauncey

a

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Connection

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Avondale

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rth

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nn

D&H Gravity

RR

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To Sunbury

Glen Lyon

Hackley Slope

Grassy Island

Underwood

Nay Aug

LACKAWANNA VALLEY

Sturgis

Blakely

DL

&W

Spencer

Ontario No. 1

Supreme

D&H (Erie)

Jc

Quinn

No. 6

NYO&W

Riverside Branch

NYO&W Mayfield No. 1

Yard

RH

ide

Erie

RH Dunmore

Rock Jct.

To Lackawaxen

To Northumberland

PRR Honey Pot Yard

Susquehanna No. 6

Penna.

No. 1

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& Brown

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NYO&DWivision

Mayfield

lls

ia

Penna.

No. 5

n

Olyphant

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Olyphant

Richmond No. 2

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D&H Vine St. Branch

D&H Poplar St. Branch

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in

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ct.

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po O

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co

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L&WV

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Branch

st

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nc er

Pa ash

W

Hyde Park CNJ/NYO&W

Station

Wye

DL&W

Oxford

Hampton

Moffatt

Dodge Cutoff Hyde

Park Yd.

Bellevue

D&H Sta.

DL&W

L&WV

CNJ

Taylor

Station

CNJ RH

Yard D&H (Erie)

DL&W Station Green

DL&W RH &

Ridge

L&WV

Locomotive Shops

Shops SCRANTON

& Power

Crown Ave. Tunnel

Plant

Nay Aug

L&WV Cutoff

Tunnel

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Van D&H Green

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Nos. 1 & 2

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Sloan

NYO&W Capouse

Branch

(DL&W)

D&H

NYO&W Scranton

Division

(DL&W)

NYS&W (Erie, DL&W)

Winton Branch

RR

ravity

D&H Gaded) track

Up (loand. 1899

ab

yser

DL&W KBeranch

Valley O&W)

(NY

Hyde

Park

Hampton

RH

Archbald

DL&W

Pyne

Branch

Capouse

Priceville

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on so H

ns ohn (D&

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Va ichm

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rr

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Continental

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er

DL&W Keys

Shops

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Pr

ice

vil

Continued at lower right

e

Capous

NYO&Wranch

B

Pyne

To Lanesboro

(Erie, D&H)

To Cadosia

(NYO&W)

Erie (D&H)

? 2009 Kalmbach Publishing Co., TRAINS: Bill Metzger

Thanks to Bill Sheppard, Gordon Davids

and the University of Akron Archives

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