{"id":220,"date":"2010-06-12T01:50:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T05:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2017-03-02T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:10:29","slug":"obstacle-course-for-challengers-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Obstacle Course for Challengers, 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Original image coutesy “Trains” magazine, and Syracuse University Press)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This diagram represents the track profile for the D&H Penn Division, running from south to north as viewed from left to right. The\u00a0Division starts in Wilkes-Barre, PA (PRR Interchange), and ends at Nineveh, NY, where the Penn Division merges with the D&H’s own Susquehanna Division, and heads north to Albany, NY.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have made some modifications to the profile to highlight my modeling\u00a0area. The red arrows indicate the start (Carbondale, PA) and the stop (Lanesboro, PA) of the portion of the Penn Division I am representing\u00a0on my layout. All other Penn Divison trackage (representing both ends of the line)\u00a0will\u00a0be in the form of\u00a0 off-scene, hidden staging.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have also highlighted some\u00a0other areas of interest on the line to include the the Ararat Wye, “Little\u00a0Starrucca” Viaduct (not to be confused\u00a0with Erie’s own Starrucca Viaduct that was located in Lanesboro), Horseshoe (also known as Ash Fill) Curve, Jefferson Junction, Starrucca\u00a0Viaduct,\u00a0and Cascade Wye\u00a0just north of Lanesboro, PA.<\/p>\n

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Most railroad bridges are\u00a0named\u00a0not for the town\u00a0or region in which they are located, but the valley, creek, stream, river or other body of\u00a0water they span. The Erie’s Starrucca Viaduct was not located on the Penn Division, but actually spans over it as well as Starrucca Creek (from which the structure takes its name), with the D&H Penn Division tracks running beneath it. The Erie’s own Delaware Division, which was part of their high-speed\u00a0 Jersey City to Chicago main, passed over on the Viaduct.\u00a0\u00a0In this shot, we see a D&H\u00a0pusher pair in the form of a J-Class\u00a0Challenger and an E-Class\u00a0Super Consolidation assisting a Symbol and starting the southbound push from\u00a0Lanesboro, and up the northern slope\u00a0of Ararat Mtn. (William S. Young photo)<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This is an image of “Little Starrucca” viaduct, that is actually located in the town of Starrucca, PA….so much for railroad bridge naming conventions!!! This steel structure is approximately 650′ in length and rises above the valley over 100′. This\u00a0bridge is a part of the original construction of the Erie Jefferson\u00a0Division in 1870, and was built by the Erie, not the D&H. In this May 1950 view, we are looking southeast, and we see Symbol\u00a0WM-5 (Wilkes-Barre-Mechanicville-5) heading north towards\u00a0Lanesboro, where the train will swing back onto the D&H’s own rails for the trip to Mechanicville in upstate New York, near Albany.\u00a0(William S. Young photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Original image coutesy “Trains” magazine, and Syracuse University Press)\u00a0 This diagram represents the track profile for the D&H Penn Division, running from south to north as viewed from left to right. The\u00a0Division starts in Wilkes-Barre, PA (PRR Interchange), and ends at Nineveh, NY, where the Penn Division merges with the D&H’s own Susquehanna Division, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eries-jefferson-division","category-historical-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattforsyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}