Hello All

I've put up a group of photographs of railroad cars and mining equipment that have been slowly rotting away in a scrapyard in Mayfield (near Carbondale) Pennsylvania. Its part of a new section of the Scrantontrains website. Several NYO&W cars as well as a wooden coach from the New York and Oswego Midland are still there.

Have a look!

www.geocities.com/scrantontrains

Once again I've tried to attach a picture, but geocities doesn't cross post I guess...



Scrantontrains

bing@epix.net

Hey Dave:

Great pictures. I "may or may not" have visted Mayfield yard and "may have or not have" similar pictures. I'm sure Rob will post a respone, but this area of PA is amazing in terms of industrial archaeology. Its unfortunate that those NYO&W cars are too far gone.

Joshua, missing the Scranton area.

joshua@joshuakblay.com

There's one NYO&W piece that isn't there, however:

As late as March 1995 there was a NYO&W 2-6-0, ex-#109, built in 1890 and rebuilt by Baldwin in 1923,derelict and on its side at the Juan Avila sugar mill (MINAZ 320) in Matanzas, Cuba. I have not been able to pry a dependable sighting out of the British/Canadian steam buffs since.

lner4472@bcpl.net

Nice work, Dave. It has been a long time since I may or may not have been chased out of there. ;-) My recent visits have all been from the roadside.

Good luck with your Forgotten Scranton pages. There's a lot of fodder, though a lot less than there was 15 years ago.

Better work fast... the way that Scranton politics operatate, the bulldozer is often fired up before the brain cells. ;-)

Rob



rdavis@rypn.org

Alexander,

I have been reviewing trip reports and MINAZ lists from Cuba for quite some time now. The most recent reports being from the past season.

There has been no locomotive matching your description at 320 Juan Avila Sugar Mill
for some time now, and has it has likely been scrapped. If you can supply either a construction number or MINAZ number I can confirm it; but I don't think it is around anymore.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

> There's one NYO&W piece that isn't
> there, however:

> As late as March 1995 there was a NYO&W
> 2-6-0, ex-#109, built in 1890 and rebuilt by
> Baldwin in 1923,derelict and on its side at
> the Juan Avila sugar mill (MINAZ 320) in
> Matanzas, Cuba. I have not been able to pry
> a dependable sighting out of the
> British/Canadian steam buffs since.


Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net

> There has been no locomotive matching your
> description at 320 Juan Avila Sugar Mill
> for some time now, and has it has likely
> been scrapped. If you can supply either a
> construction number or MINAZ number I can
> confirm it; but I don't think it is around
> anymore.

The loco never made it to the MINAZ number system, last having a # of 76. The hulk was reported as derelict and on its side in March 1995, with a BLW rebuild badge number of EO412/1923, indicating a 1923 rebuild of NYO&W 109, New York Locomotive Works (Rome, NY) c/n 565 of 1890. This construction and rebuild data was confirmed by an all-time roster of NYO&W steam I read at EastRail this past weekend.

I will concede that one has to spot the loco or remains to get excited, and the odds are very good that it has been scrapped. Still, if someone can go out back there with a machete....

lner4472@bcpl.net

Somebody should visit the owner of the property and buy those Sharon coupler knuckles off the coaches and anything else that might have them....

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