Good News from NEPA (Vulcan to live long and Prosper)

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2605

Wilkes Barre Times Leader article on siderod Vulcan that is being restored:

It would be cool to see this engine, siderods reciprocating furiously even at restricted speed-pulling a dinner train along the Susquehanna River!

http://www.timesleader.com/news/2007052 ... n_ART.html

steamtown observer · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:11 pm **Posts:** 371

Even though I am somewhat local to this, I am still trying to figure out the details of this dinner train. Does he mean the Erie Lackawanna dining car group or does he have some other dining car in mind?

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2007 10:02 am

The ELDCPS isn't necessarily the only "ball game" in town. I seem to recall that parties affiliated with the former Pocono Northeast RR in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (1982-1993) owned at least two ex-Amtrak cars, including I think one diner. I think one of those individuals, who was barely out of high school at that time, is now affiliated somehow with the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, the Alco refuge. And there is, not coincidentally, a fair deal of overlap between the D-L and the ELDCPS, I understand...........

Metman499 · **Joined:** Mon May 09, 2005 8:16 pm **Posts:** 80

As someone associated with the project I can say that details have yet to be worked out on where the coaches will be coming from. The first priority right now is getting the engine restored to operations. I have some recent photographs that should be posted on the net sometime in the next few days of the engine at RMDI.