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Title: Design of the freight yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Scranton, Pa.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Clement C. (Clement Clarence), 1882-1947
Subjects: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Railroad yards Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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the present traffic will probably he in-icreased by twelve percent. The old facilities for taking care of trains were entirely 1^ 10 inadequate to the needs. The tracks were overcrowded, the repairshops were neither as large nor as modern as required, the coalpockets were too small, the capacity of the ashpits was altogethertoo mea^^er, no transfer platforms were in existence, the freighthouse was not large enough, the said dryer was old-fashionea and notof sufficient size to supply the demand, the storage circles andround house contained too few stalls for the locomotives, and infact, the whole yard had not kept pace with the growtn in trafficj.hence the renovation. Summarizing, it may be said: The railroad has a very heavyfreight traffic chiefly composed of coal, most of which is hauledover the Scranton Division and handled in Scranton yard. The pres-ent traffic will^:)robably be increased by eight or ten percent inthe next fifteen years.and provision must be made for this increase.
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11 Peculiar Conditions. A clear understanding of the problem in hand requires an exactdescription of the layout and relation of the three yards which to-gether make up the complete arran^jement for freight handling atScranton. Platell is a sketch of tne situation. The receivingtracks begin at station 7620 (stations are one hundred feet apartand are measured continuously from Hoboken, IT. J.), and the switch-ing tracks end at station 7652, making the total length of the yard13200 feet. At station 7656 the Bloomsburg Division to llorthumber-jland, Pa., leads off. On this branch, Hyde Park yard begins at! station 7666 and extends for a distance of 2550 feet ending at sta-tion 7691 plus 50.I At the east end of Tayjor yard, marked N on the map, a branch known as Keyser Valley Branch leads off to the right following theoutside tracg: of the cluster for about six hundred feet, then curvesto the right and runs up Keyser Valley joining the Main Line Divisionj at Keuga about four miles from Scr

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