Garden State Model Railway Club, Inc.

2006 Club Trips

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Members of the GSMRRC made the annual drive to the East Broad Top Railroad on October 7, 2006. Locomotive #15 receives a load of coal for the days excursions.

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#15 pulled a freight train this year including the newly restored flat car. Bob rode the photo special and took this shot of the run-by.

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The crew poses in front of the south portal of Sideling Hill. From left to right are James, Bob, Rob, Paul, Anthony, Joe, and Walter.

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We hiked south from the water tank and muleshoe curve at Coles to the north portal of Wray's Hill Tunnel. Laying across the track is the remains of the electrically operated rolling door which kept the draft out and prevented the water that seeped in from freezing on the tracks.

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The crew cleans the ash pan after the night train on Saturday.

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The weather was absolutely perfect on Sunday as James caught #15 pulling the morning freight train past the station.

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This is the entrance to Mine #5 in the woods behind the Robertsdale Station.

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A daylight SU-99 is rare, but two Saturdays in a row, impossible! We began this June 11th chase just west of the New Foundland station.

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The train approaches the grade crossing at Snufftown Road in Stockholm.

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If this photograph at Lake Grinnell looks familiar, that is because fellow Club member Matt Posthumus shot the NYS&W 2007 corporate calendar photo just a few feet away! This is north of Sparta Junction where the NYS&W turns north onto the Lehigh and Hudson River.

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Another highlight of this chase was this neat shot by an abandoned siding in Sugar Loaf just south of Route 17.

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The train crosses from New York to Pennsylvania on the bridge at Mill Rift.

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The light was fading quickly in Shohola. We finished the chase in the dark at 8:30PM west of here in Narrowsburg.

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On June 3, 2006, a few Club members chased a rare daylight SU-99. The train had some engine trouble and stopped on the hill in downtown Butler.

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We caught up with the train in Oak Ridge.

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This shot was taken from the shoulder of Route 23 nearing Stockholm.

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The train approaches the summit of Sparta Mountain at Snufftown Road in Stockholm.

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Turning around shows the train cresting the grade.

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A look at the train off the Route 23 bridge at Beaver Lake.

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The train was cruising at 50mph through Campbell Hall. Here the train passes the NS local power at the Metro North station.

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As the rains began falling hard, the crew brought the train to a stop in Pond Eddy as they outlawed. The conductor is walking along side the train inspecting the power.

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A few members hiked a portion of the Wharton & Northern right-of-way along Green Pond Road. Here we are looking south near Oreland Junction.

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Looking north at Oreland Junction, the mainline heads straight and the branch to the Upper Hibernia mines bears right and crosses Green Pond Road.

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We took advantage of the fine weather on this day to complete our Lackawanna Cutoff History Pages at Roseville Tunnel.

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The town of Franklin was a maze of railroad tracks back in its prime. This is the top of a large coal conveyor.

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Looking the opposite way, the track to this conveyor was steep and negotiated a few switchbacks through town to get here.

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North of Franklin off of Limekiln Road, these, you guessed it, lime kilns were at one time serviced by the nearby Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad.

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The New Jersey Zinc mine complex in Franklin was enormous. This is one of the raw material storage buildings in the complex along side the L&HR.

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Though most of the buildings are gone, some of the tall stacks and all of the foundations and basements remain intact.

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On January 2, 2006, several members ventured out into Pennsylvania to look at the Lackawanna Railroad through the Poconos. Our first stop was Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct in Nicholson. This is the largest concrete structure in the world measuring in at 240 feet high and 2375 feet long! The viaduct was built between 1912 and 1915.

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This coal dump in downtown Nicholson is one of the artificats left behind by the old main line through town before the Clark's Summit-Hallstead Cutoff and viaduct were completed.

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The old DL&W freight house is well preserved in 2006 by a local business.

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Martin's Creek Viaduct is yet another impressive Lackawanna concrete structure.

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Apparently the Kingsley Station burned just a couple of weeks before we arrived to photographically document the structure.

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Getting to Kingsley Tower turned out to be quite a hike in the January snow, but we found it in very good condition after almost 100 years since it was erected.

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North of the Viaducts and Kingsley is Alford. The station and tower still stand. Note the bumping block for the station track.

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Alford Tower

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Alford Tower is the only tower left on the Lackawanna with its levers still intact.

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