I posted this on flimsies-but apparently haven't done it right.

Here's one that shouldn't die- Wyoming Seminary a (private school) is or will be the owner of the site on which the former DL&W roundhouse is located. They will demolish the structure to make way for athletic fields.

Any ideas before its to late?

As an aside RYPN poster Dave Crosby is quoted for "the defense".



"Old site taking on new life"
superheater@rrmail.com

With Steamtown nearby, I doubt there is much hope for this one. Saving such a structure needs to start long before the 11th hour and not many in our field have such a vision. It would be interesting to see photos of this building in railroad use.

The only possible good that might come out of its destruction is that its remains might help restore another roundhouse. The heavy timbers, bricks, door hinges, smokejacks, windows, etc., etc. (expensive stuff to buy or build new), could be used elsewhere - Hugo, Colorado is an example of a place that might use some of it.

Erie Baldwin at Kingston - 1963
ryarger@rypn.org

If a local college is getting it there is no hope at all. I remember seeing that place in action in my much younger days. I aquired the blue print of the roundhouse and yard a few years back. It actually had a greenhouse on the property where they would grow flowers and shrubs to landscape the DL&W stations. I think the very first DL&W loco was built there. Across the street is a lumber company that still stands. That building use to be the DL&W car shops. There are no smoke jacks left, the pits are all filled in. You can still see the turntable pit. That was a big yard at one time over 22 tracks across. They should call the new place the roundhouse field but I am sure it will be named after somebody with a big wallet. Because what is everything about anymore? MONEY is the only thing that seems to matter. T. Tabers books have some good info on the property. The blue print I have shows the proposed new drainage system. The system would drain water from the inspection pits into the turntable pit and then right into Toby's Creek. Valve oil, car oil, coal dust and everything else.

> I posted this on flimsies-but apparently
> haven't done it right.

Superheater,

You did it right. Flimsies entries don't show up right away. They are posted after the entry is reviewed and approved by the administrator (me).
I review new entries as often as I get a chance, at least once a day, or more often if my busy personal and work schedule permits.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

Boyd


bowens@rypn.org

> Superheater,

> You did it right. Flimsies entries don't
> show up right away. They are posted after
> the entry is reviewed and approved by the
> administrator (me).
> I review new entries as often as I get a
> chance, at least once a day, or more often
> if my busy personal and work schedule
> permits.
> Sorry for any inconvenience.

Ahhh!!!! No problem! Chalk me up as another victim of the age of instant gratification.

Thanks for the info.

> Boyd


superheater@rrmail.com

Hello All

Its funny what happens when you go away for a few days... I came home for a few days to find a message about this on the machine. Until I read this I had no idea I had been quoted from the website.

It is too bad that its going to go, but as many have said you can't save everything...

In some ways the Kingston roundhouse is a much better example of a DL&W structure than the sanitized Scranton facility, but with the encrouchment of homes and other businesses, the modifications to the building there are much more worthy sites that deserve attention (a certain LNE facility comes to mind...).

Question, is Steamtown now the last DL&W roundhouse?

Dave Crosby

bing@epix.net

The only other one (besides Edwardsville and Scranton) I can think of is East Binghamton.

Hmmm

Even the presence of a major DL&W facility in Kingston is impossible to comprehend today, or the intensity of rail operations in the S-WB area in the anthracite era.


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