File:Print, photographic. View of north end of DL&W RR Scranton Yards near Dickson Locomotive Works. (016dfa6e-fd20-4321-a43d-f0acd2a11754).jpg

Print, photographic. 1870-1880. View of north end of DL&W RR Scranton Yards near Dickson Locomotive Works. In foreground are many 4-wheel DL&W RR "Coal Jimmy" hoppers. Behind, rows of locomotives, freight cars; 1865 roundhouse at left; Dickson Works at right. Mountain, church, coal breaker in distance. "E.R. Holden" and "J.J. Albright" on cabs of locomotives at left.

From the Museum Collection: Print, photographic. 1870-1880. View of north end of DL&W RR Scranton Yards near Dickson Locomotive Works. In foreground are many 4-wheel DL&W RR "Coal Jimmy" hoppers. Behind, rows of locomotives, freight cars; 1865 roundhouse at left; Dickson Works at right. Mountain, church, coal breaker in distance. "E.R. Holden" and "J.J. Albright" on cabs of locomotives at left. On reverse: "Mollie O Neil/to be framed/paid 1.15" in pencil. Glued to card stock. From its inception in 1851, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (DL&W) railyard in Scranton has been dynamic, changing to meet the railroad's needs. With the acquisition of track and equipment the size of the yard expanded from 25 to 40 acres to accommodate additional operation and repair facilities. When William Truesdale became president of the DL&W in 1899, he sought to increase its efficiency in operation through larger equipment and to diversify from its reliance on the transportation of anthracite coal. The DL&W provided a transportation connection to New York and New Jersey while promoting manufacturing and tourism along the route. The current steam era buildings that have been listed in the National Register as the DL&W Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Yard, now part of the Steamtown National Historic Site, were erected primarily between 1899 and 1917 with a remnant of the 1937 roundhouse also present. These buildings include the five-story concrete frame Pattern Shop; the foundry; the steel frame Blacksmith Shop; the Machine and Erecting Shop; the Oil House; Gas House; the 1902 and 1937 roundhouse remnants, which housed steam locomotives; and the three-story Mattes Street Signal Tower, among others. The current track arrangement represents, for the most part, that which evolved by the late 1930s. In 1983 the city of Scranton purchased the yard from Conrail as part of an arrangement to house the Steamtown Foundation's collection of steam locomotives and rolling stock. Steamtown NHS includes a Visitor Center, a History Museum, Roundhouse, Turntable, 1902 Roundhouse Section and a Technology Museum. Steamtown NHS was established on October 30, 1986, to further public understanding and appreciation of the role steam railroading played in the development of the United States.

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