The Pocono turn passes the tower in East Straudsburg and heads back to Scranton after dropping cars at the paper mill in Delaware Water Gap. Built in 1908, the East Stroudsburg Railroad Tower stands near the corner of Lackawanna and Analomink Streets in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The tower is the last remaining DL&W wood railroad tower in Pennsylvania (and perhaps on the entire railroad), and still contains the original mechanical interlocking machine. In its glory days, as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the tower contained 37 levers(which can still be seen in the windows) and controlled the switches and signals on the main tracks between Broad Street and Federal Street. As late as 1958, there were seven passenger trains a day in each direction past the East Stroudsburg tower, and many more freight trains. Now, traffic passes through here only a couple of times a week on average.
Don Colangelo, retired CMO (and sometimes piano player) at the DL Scranton shops cared for the many ALCOs, MLWs and a few EMDs that passed in and out of South Scranton and Von Storch shop doors.
Here is a look and many of those units.
