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| EXISTING STATIONS | ||||||||
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| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
Current Location |
Type | Current Use |
Date Built |
Track Status |
Building Material |
More Info |
| Hallstead |  |
Pine Street & Railroad Avenue (GPS: 41.962028, -75.746904) |
C | Business | 1915 | In Use | Brick | |
| Susquehanna |  |
Front & Main Streets (GPS: 41.944771, -75.609714) |
P | Restaurant | 1863 | In Use | Brick |
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| Thompson | |
Main Street (PA171) (GPS: 41.865698, -75.515440) |
P | Business | ???? | Gone | Wood |
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| STATIONS OF THE PAST | ||||||||
| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
Notes | ||||||
| Alford | |
The predecessor to the brick station listed below. This was on the old main line and burned down on June 22, 1911 (Pittston Gazette, 6-22-1911). | ||||||
| Alford | |
This brick station opened in February 1912. It was on Depot Road on the west side of the tracks at GPS: 41.807721, -75.775585. It was torn down in June 2020. There was an adjacent concrete tower that operated from 1914-1938 and controlled the junction with the Montrose Branch and a third track that ran from Alford to Kingsley. | ||||||
| Ararat | |
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| Avery |
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This station was on Avery Station Road. | ||||||
| Dimock |
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| Forest City | |
This station was along Erie Street on the west side of the tracks between Grand and Center Streets at GPS: 41.650704, -75.463932. | ||||||
| Forest
City (Browndale) |
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Although Forest City is located in Susquahanna County, the station was located just across the Lackawanna river in Wayne County in what is today Browndale. The station was on the south side of Main Street on the west side fo the tracks at GPS: 41.649226, -75.460164. The station agent's dwelling was on the second floor. | ||||||
| Foster | |
This station was built in 1888 and later served as a freight house. | ||||||
| Foster | |
A concrete station was built here in 1915. | ||||||
| Great Bend | |
This station was at the SW end of Depot Street at GPS: 41.970570, -75.743870. | ||||||
| Heart Lake | |
On a branch from Montrose to Alford. | ||||||
| Hickory Grove | |
The Erie RR station in Hickory Grove was supposedly bought long ago, dismantled, rebuilt as a camp, dismantled again, and rebuilt as a home in Kirkwood, NY, just over the border. Reports claim that the building is by now unrecognizable as a depot. Can anyone confirm that? | ||||||
| Herrick Center | |
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| Hop Bottom | |
Torn down in 1999 after falling into disrepair. | ||||||
| Hop Bottom | |
This was the earlier wood frame station. | ||||||
| Kingsley | |
Built in 1915. Was on Main Street. South half of station collapsed as of May 2006 and was totally demolished by 2007.. | ||||||
| Kingsley | |
Probably the predecessor of the above listed station. | ||||||
| Lanesboro | |
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| Lanesboro |
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The combination station here was built in 1873 (Delaware & Hudson Inspection of Lines - Passenger & Freight Stations, 1928). | ||||||
| Montrose |
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Station was demolished in the mid 1980s. | ||||||
| Montrose |
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This 1.5-story station was on the eastern corner of High and Mill Streets at GPS: 41.833508, -75.873183. It was enlarged sometime between 1897-1904. This was at the end of the Lackawanna & Montrose Branch. | ||||||
| New Milford | |
This station replaced the original station here at the same location sometime between 1897-1904. It was on the east side of the tracks between Ward Street and Depot (formerly Broad) Street at GPS: 41.878649, -75.728847. | ||||||
| Pleasant Mount | |
This station was along PA-371 between Herrick Center and Pleasant Mount, on the site of the present day (2011) Agway Store. | ||||||
| Springville | |
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| Starrucca Station | |
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| Susquehanna | |
The original freight station was built 1865 and expanded to the NE over the years. It sat northwest of Front Street near the intersection of Front and Main Streets at GPS: 41.945322, -75.608149. | ||||||
| Uniondale | |
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| 1895 SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY RAILROAD MAP | ||||||||
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| Notes About Existing
Stations... Susquehanna (Erie) - Magnificent 3 story Gothic Revival station hotel, first brick passenger station in North America. Dining hall served passengers before advent of dining cars. Entered the National Register of Historic Buildings in 1978. The Sturrucca House Station was built under the supervision of Morris S. Sherman who was the Superintendant of Masonry for the Erie Railroad. He was brought to Suquehanna in 1846 to work on the construction of the Sturrucca Viaduct as a foreman after which he was promoted to superintendant's position and was kept in Susquehanna to build the station. He remained there until his death in September, 1885. He is buried in the Grand St. Cemetery there in town. Thompson (Erie) - Prior to
January, 1955 the D&H's Pennsylvania Division (Susquehanna to
Carbondale) was owned and operated by the Erie as its Jefferson Division
so the station is of Erie ancestry. D&H purchased the line in 1955.
Thompson station remained an Erie and EL agency even after the |
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