{"id":35439,"date":"2023-02-13T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35439"},"modified":"2023-02-12T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:04:03","slug":"dlws-tunkhannock-viaduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dlws-tunkhannock-viaduct\/","title":{"rendered":"DL&W’s Tunkhannock Viaduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kris and I drove Pennsylvania Rt11 north from Clarks Summit to Nicholson to view the immense concrete bridge over Tunkhannock Creek built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote about this bridge in my book Railway Masterpieces. Here’s an excerpt of the text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bridge is made of ten vast arched spans, each 180 feet across. Each arch is supported by enormous piers, some of which are set as far as 95 feet below ground in order to reach solid ground. Some 167,000 cubic yards of concrete, and an estimated 1,140 tons of steel were used in the viaduct.\u00a0The Lackawanna was a busy and profitable railway through the first decades of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century, but its fortunes waned as the Anthracite business declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I exposed these photos digitally using my Nikon Z series cameras. Over the years I’ve photographed trains crossing the viaduct from various vantage points. Those photos were all made on film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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