I had another breakfast of a waffle and crispy bacon before returning to my room to check the Internet. At 7:00 AM, I went down to the boarding area and found some of my close friends, whom I joined. The train was late to arrive again and the usual two doors opened for coarch boarding.
This train had a consist of RS-3s 4118, 4013 and 4068, Lehigh Valley observation car 353, Nickel Plate Road 211 "City of Lima", Central of New Jersey combine 303, Central of New Jersey coaches 1126 and 1157, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western coach 550, 589, Central of New Jersey coach 1152 and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western coach 335. I sat in DL&W 335 in front of Bart Jennings who opened all the windows in the car. Once everyone was aboard and all orders going, we departed Scranton for the Delaware Water Gap.
The train climbed the grade out of Scranton running through Nay Aug Park before proceeding through Nay Aug Tunnel. East of the tunnel, we detrained for the first photo runby of the day.
Reverse move one.
Photo runby one.
The group waits to reboard the train then we continued up the grade.
Elmhurst Reservoir Dam.
Elmhurst Reservoir.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western freight station in Moscow built in 1903.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Moscow station built in 1903.
A small pond along our route.
The forest we passed through climbing the grade.
Views of Larsen Lake.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Gouldsboro station built in 1907.
Gouldsboro Lake.
Tobyhanna Tower before we passed the Tobyhanna Army Depot.
Pocono Summit Lake.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Poconos Summit station built in 1912.
The train rolling down the grade to the Delaware River.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Paradise Crossing depot.
Crossing a stream.
Two views as we roll down the grade.
An industry as we neared Stroudsburg.
Here we found Canadian National 2-8-2 3254 which would pull us back to Scranton later.
Two views of the fire-damaged Stroudsburg freight station built in 1882.
Our route crossed the stream again.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western East Stroudsburg station, built in 1864, was in pretty bad shape after a fire the year before. We continued to the Delaware River.
The Delaware Water Gap.
The Delaware River with New Jersey across it.
The children fell in the river off this raft when they saw our train.
A look back towards Delaware Water Gap.
This is as far as our trip went. We waited for Canadian National 3254 to reverse to our location, as well as the RS-3s to run around the train, before our trip to Scranton could commence.
