Four Boston & Maine EMD’s, a GP39-2 acquired from the Delaware & Hudson and three patched Conrail-refugee GP40’s, lead a southbound D&H train out of the Factoryville tunnel on the Scranton – Binghamton line. This is an operator’s-eye view of the approaching train from the gutted shell of the poured concrete DL&W tower . The Lackawanna’s Bangor & Portland Division served a large number of mills in Pennsylvania’s cement belt, paralleling the Lehigh & New England’s Martins Creek branch, which also served the same mills. The Lackawanna made a huge commitment to its customers during two huge 1910-era mainline relocation/improvement construction projects, the Lackawanna Cutoff and the Nicholson Cutoff. It seems that almost everything possible was poured from concrete, from towers to culverts and overpasses to the massive Paulinskill, Delaware River, Tunkhannock, and Martins Creek Viaducts.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
