The end of a day and the end of a railroad. Here is a picture of the Bloomsburg Division taken somewhere along the Susquehanna in the last years of the line's operation, the 1970s. By this time, the Lackawanna had, through a merger, become Erie-Lackawanna. It appears that in these waning days, trains on this division--and there were probably only one or two trains a week--were pulled by a 4-unit set of GM diesels as shown here. In this scene, the engines have probably dropped off freight cars for loading/unloading in Bloomsburg, Danville, Berwick and are now heading back upriver to Scranton. |