And here is the proof - A photo taken on April 12, 1966 by A. W. Kovacs. Absolutely fascinating photo. Good news, the station still survives.
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Check out the link that Mitch provides! It shows the same scene 10 years earlier. How on earth could so much change from depot to industries, to trucks, to sidings with freight cars and jobs for Americans? Mitch, thank you for posting and showing how useful this website can be to provide links back to these railroads. Now I HAVE to take a two-hour ride to Wilkes Barre to take a current photo and see what else has changed. Guessing the burned out crossing shanty has fallen over. Love the fact that it was already leaning in 1966!
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If you guys hadnt had the year of those photos listed. I would have sworn that was well over 20 years apart. Maybe even 50. What a big change in just 10 years.
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These few blocks of W-B have had a frustrating preservation history. A street now runs where the CNJ main was, but many of the buildings in the immediate area were restored. The station was a restaurant, and then abandoned again, and now is to be restored as a visitor's center. The incredible Stegmaier Brewery (out of frame to the right) has been partially restored. Most of the smaller structures around these two landmarks are gone.
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