WAYNE COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Current Use	Date Built	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
Farview		????	F	Storage	1912	Gone	Brick/Stucco
Gouldsboro		Main Street (PA507)	C	Vacant	1907	In Use	Wood
Lakewood (Winwood)		SR 370	C	Municipal	????	Gone	Wood
Starlight		TR 743	P	Municipal	????	Gone	Wood
Waymart		East Street	C	Residence	1900	????	????
Waymart		1118 South St.	P	Museum	1857	Gone	Wood
Wimmers (Hamlin)		SR 191/196 in Hamlin	C	Civic	????	Gone	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Farview
Hoadleys
Maplewood
Orson		This town was also called "Belmont." It is listed as "Belmont" (north of Belmont lake) on the 1895 map below. Current atlases call it Orson. It used both listings in the NYO&W timetable which indicates that it was at milepost 178.14 with the call letters BM.
Poyntelle
Preston Park
White Mills
West Hawley		Built by predecessor Erie & Wyoming Valley RR.
1895 WAYNE COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Farview (D&H) - The existing brick station, built in 1912, replaced a wooden structure on the same foundation originally constructed in 1875 when the Gravity Railroad was converted to passenger service. Here is my educated guess on the cornerstone which reads "1875." It was removed from the passenger station which was constructed in 1875 with the establishment of passenger service, and then placed in the present location when the existing freight station was constructed for the state hospital and prison. The D&H Gravity RR was the first commercial railroad in the USA. The gravity railroad was converted to standard gauge in 1899 and operated until 1931. The original gravity line ran from Carbondale to Honesdale in northeastern Pennsylvania and transported coal from the mines to the Delaware and Hudson Canal basin in Honesdale. The coal was then transported 108 miles by canal boat to New York City. The original name of the station was Rix's Gap, then Fairview around 1850 and finally changed to Farview by the D&H about 1874 after the establishment of the passenger service to Carbondale from Honesdale. -- Thomas Gibson Lakewood (O&W) - Preston Twp. Office. 2-story with agent's living quarters on 2nd floor. Town was called Winwood until 1925. Wimmers (Erie) - Salem Public Library. This is Erie RR's Wimmer, PA (Lackawanna County) station moved to Hamlin, five miles west of Wimmer..