The seventeen-arch Starrucca Viaduct is a monumental feat of nineteenth-century engineering. Started in 1847 and completed in 1848, it is the oldest stone-arch railroad bridge still in use in Penn... (more)
The Jefferson Connection is in its last months of operation and of its very existence as a southbound detour train around Belden Hill enters that Former Erie main line at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)
A southbound Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train enters the Southern Toer line off of the Jefferson Connection at Lanesboro, PA. Following two ex-Illinois Terminal SD39’s and two Pittsb... (more)
A southbound Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train has outlawed at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, and awaits a new crew on Conrail’s former Eris Southern Tier main line.
That's one more thing off my bucket list: A daylight train on Starrucca. The usual schedule for trains on this line has them cross the viaduct at late night or pre-dawn early morning.
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