{"id":40740,"date":"2024-12-15T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40740"},"modified":"2024-12-12T20:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:22:48","slug":"2023-king-coal-and-co-at-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2023-king-coal-and-co-at-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"2023, King Coal and Co., at Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The maze of trackage in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre area has always fascinated me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No less than eight railroads once built into this anthracite rich region. While coal ceased to be a primary source of revenue decades ago, numerous lines remain as a legacy of this once intensive railroad traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris and I followed Reading & Northern’s Pittston-Jim Thorpe excursion. Not far from Pittston, I pulled over at the location known as ‘Bloom’ where tracks remain on two levels, and here I exposed this series of photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can only wonder what this place may have looked like in decades gone by. I was delighted that only minutes passed from the moment of my ‘discovery’ until the passage of this train. ‘King Coal’ is Reading & Northern’s round-end observation car on the tail end of the excursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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