Tunkhannock, PA: Lehigh Valley (LV) Depot and US-6

(Satellite?, I could not find it.)

US-6 Overview

Lehigh Valley Railroad & Railroad Photography posted
My grandfather Jack Koehler photographed the Lehigh Valley Railroad station in Tunkhannock, PA on October 20, 1971. The station still stands but in bad shape.

A lot of the railroad property was used to build the new US-6 route around the downtown.

1948/48 Tunkhannock Quad @ 24,000

The branch is abandoned, and the single track going through the area is now owned by Reading & Northern.

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Tunkhannock is on the branch to goes to Mehoopany.

rbmnrr_map via Dennis DeBruler

Jim Thorpe, PA: Penn Haven Junction: NS/Penn Haven Junction vs CNJ

(Satellite)

The Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad calls this the Independence Junction. [David Blazejewski]

Keith Nonnemacher posted
Lehigh Valley Railroads Penn Haven Junction now NS M&H Junction
Love the different types of Semaphore signals the Lehigh Valley upper quadrant the CNJ s Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad Lower Quadrant. Plus the tower was out in the middle of nowhere. The old Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Penn Haven Planes are in the background after they extended their Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad to Easton and connection with the CNJ in Phillipsburg so they could run coal trains to tide water and abandon the incline plane in 1865

Today's trail is on the former-CNJ land.

Trail View, Aug 2021

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Vintage Photo Penn Haven Jct. Central Railroad of NJ Lehigh Valley Railroad 1905

Did the turntable turn helper locomotives?

CulturedCarbonCountry, this webpage has several more photos

1960/62 Christmans Quad @ 24,000

I had trouble finding it. Lehigh Valley had a lot of forking junctions in these mountains. A comment mentioned that both legs of this junction still exist. That narrowed down where to look to just a couple of forking junctions on a contemporary map.

National Rail Network Map

Weatherly, PA: Extant/Lehigh Valley Depot and Lost/LV Engine Shop

Depot: (Satellite)

Engine Shop: (Satellite, according to street views, it was torn down after 2018.)

Lehigh Valley Overview

Street View, May 2023

Metrotrails posted two photos with the comment: "Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Lehigh Valley Railroad Station in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, built in 1889. This was the second station to serve the site (the original was on the north side of Main Street), historic 1951 image compared with one from our recent 2017 hike. Uncertain the photographer on the historic image. If you know, please tell us so we may give credit."

Metrotrails shared

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John Cowgill: DC Railroad Examiner posted
Old Train Station, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

While looking for the depot, I found a museum. The museum is on the left of this view.

Street View, May 2023

The paved areas in the above view used to be industrial ruins.

Pete Long, Jun 2018

Pete Long, Jun 2018

It looks like a building did survive.

Street View, May 2023

The town is in a narrow gap in the mountains.

1948/65 Weatherly Quad @ 24,000

Shortsville, NY: Restaurant/NYC Depot and Lehigh Valley Museum/NYC Freight House

Depot: (Satellite) 

Museum/Freight House: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley Overview

Photo, Sep 2017

The building on the left is obviously the former NYC freight house because of the spacing of the freight doors. The building on the right is the former NYC depot.

Street View, Jul 2019

At first, I was surprised that the Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society would be using a NYC freight house as its headquarters. But then I noticed that Shortsville is just southeast of Manchester, and Manchester was a major division point for the LV. I've already seen a railroad historical society use another railroads freight house because the price was right (IC historical society in NKP freight house in Paxton, IL).

1951/53 Clifton Springs Quad @ 24,000

The museum hosted excursion trains on the Finger Lakes Railway. But when I researched this train, I had to change the "hosts" verb to the past tense. In 2025, the railroad is using different towns.

Joseph Colasacco, Oct 2019

Not all of the locomotives are painted in LV colors.

Joseph Colasacco, Nov 2018

Wilkes-Barre, PA: Lehigh Valley and 1868 Central Railroad of NJ Depots

Lehigh Valley: (Satellite, it was on the south side of this parking lot.)

CNJ: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley Overview

𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 and Ohio posted
Lehigh Valley RR station • circa early 1900s!

Harry Owens: John William Sharzen It was located at East Market Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Ed Johnson shared

 

Tom Obrzut Jr. posted
Lehigh Valley Train Depot, Wilkes-Barre, PA
John L Garcia shared

This stripmall that was built on a passenger train yard pays homage as to why there is now a "Old Train Station Road" in this area.

Street View, Nov 2020

Central Railroad of New Jersey Station

Looking East.

Street View, Nov 2020

Looking West. I think this was trackside. 

Street View, Aug 2019

Patricia Ann posted
Jim Kelling shared
Wilkes-Barre station recently restored  (CRNJ)

Wilkes-Barré Preservation Society posted
Wilkes-Barre's last remaining train station was originally built in 1868 by the Lehigh & Susquehanna Railroad later owned by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It's a really distinctive brick building with Victorian architectural features, including a big wooden cupola and a neat hipped roof. It was a fairly prominent stop back in the day, and it closed for passenger service in 1963 and completely closed in 1972. Now it's part of the National Register of Historic Places and it's been restored (for the third time - first a hotel and fancy restaurant, second a nightclub) and now to house  Visit Luzerne County. Photo from 1967.
Ed Johnson shared

Wilkes-Barré Preservation Society commented on their post
Wilkes-Barre train station today

Donna Kayes, Mar 2022

Donna Kayes, Mar 2022

Most outfits, when they spend that much money on refurbishing a depot, provide a history of the depot. But I could not find it on their website. I did find a history of some buildings, but it does not include their own building. Later, I found a Google Maps label of "Central Railroad of New Jersey Station."

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1949/49 Kinston & Pittston and 1950/50 Wilkes-Barre East & West Quads @ 24,000

I started with a 1963 aerial because it had better resolution. But I could not find the LV depot.

Apr 17, 1966 @ 24,000; AR1VBLH00020055

So I got the older aerial. This shows the white rectangle in the above aerial used to be the depot.

Aug 5, 1958 @ 60,000; ARA550340121199

Perkasie, PA: SEPTA/Conrail/Reading Depot and Feed Mill

Depot: (Satellite)

Trolley Tunnel: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley Overview

John E. Beirne posted six photos with the comment:

On a visit to Perkasie, PA for the Upper Bucks Celtic Day Festival I briefly scoped out the former Reading/Conrail/SEPTA station on the former Bethlehem Branch which has been defunct since 1981.

Also a former tunnel and ROW from the Lehigh Valley Transit interurban trolley line that ran a long trip from Allentown to 69th St in Philadelphia.

Glenn Brown shared

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The shack in the second photo is on the right side of this view. It is on the other side of the tracks from the depot and provides some shelter for passengers riding the trains going in the opposite direction.

Street View, Mar 2023

Street View, Oct 2013

1957/58 Quakertown and 1953/54 Telford Quads @ 24,000

The east coast does not have a lot of grain storage elevators, but it does seem to have quite a few feed mills. It looks like they do grind some of their own feed here.

Street View, Jul 2019

That is a mill architecture that I've never seen before. The slogan on the truck is "we feed them all big or small."

Street View, Jul 2019

Cortland, NY: DL&W and Lehigh Valley Depots and Freight Houses

DL&W:

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite)

Crossing Guard Tower: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley:

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley Overview

 

Raymond Storey posted
CORTLAND NY   THE DL&W

Jim Kelling: Still standing and in railroad use

 

Dennis DeBruler commented on Jim's comment
The depot is labeled a community center, https://maps.app.goo.gl/L9Yw3HhztQb3imvb7. But the freight house just west of the depot is still used by NS, https://maps.app.goo.gl/QbEKKFMaFfVcaN7XA.

Jim Kelling: Dennis DeBruler okay thanks I haven’t been there for many years now

I found this trackside view of the depot while trying to figure out which crossing was controlled by the crossing guard tower. I never did find a crossing for that tower.

Street View, Jul 2024

Lehigh Valley Railroad & Railroad Photography posted
Jack Koehler photographed the former Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad station in Cortland, NY on October 28, 1978

Rich Hendricks commented on the above post
took a year ago [that would be 2025]

I.e. Xam commented on the above post
I took this in 2022.

A satellite image caught three locomotives in town and two nearby industries receiving rail service.

Satellite

The topo map not only marks the locations of the stations, but it also labels therm.

1955/56 Cortland Quad @ 24,000

Since it is also labelled on the topo map, I checked out the Lehigh Valley depot. To my surprise, it and the freight house are also extant.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Darren's post
The depot and freight house for the Lehigh Valley is also extant along South Street and west of Main Street, https://maps.app.goo.gl/UXxzb7goRksRe5iY7. The depot is in the foreground and the freight house is in the background of this view. According to Google Maps, the freight house is now a coffee shop, https://maps.app.goo.gl/MHg5vEctVE7Jc7mW6.

Jim Kelling: Dennis DeBruler the Lehigh Valley depot is in much worse condition

The freight house retains the classic design of a two-story office and a one-story freight handling part. In fact, it still has the freight doors for loading trucks/wagons.

Street View, Oct 2024

Update:

Mark H. Charles posted
About 1912, the Lehigh Valley RR built a new passenger station in Cortland, NY (on the Elmira & Cortland branch.) Here's a colorized postcard from my collection. The structure survives today, but is not in great shape.