Lackawanna Station
700 Lackawanna Ave., at Jefferson Ave.
Opened 1908, replacing smaller station 7 blocks west
Lackawanna Avenue Station
602 W. Lackawanna Ave., at 6th Ave.
Opened 1893
Delaware & Hudson Station
37 Lackawanna Ave.
Opened 1894
EARLIER RAILROADS/STATIONS
Erie Station
701 N. Washington Ave.
Erie Railroad service was discontinued in early 1930's.
(Lackawanna Station)
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 10 New York Mail New York 1:40 12:45 8 New Yorker New York 4:15 3:04 15 Owl Buffalo 4:50 3:40 26 Merchants Express New York 7:15 6:15 47 Binghamton 10:05 10:50 2 Pocono Express New York 10:40 9:55 3 Lackawanna Limited Buffalo 1:05 12:50 6 Lackawanna Limited New York 3:20 2:15 705 Harrisburg 5:40 44 New York 6:00 5 Chicagoan Buffalo 8:05 7:20 7 Westerner Chicago 11:10 10:30Arrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 10 New York Mail Buffalo 1:25 12:40 8 New Yorker Chicago 4:05 2:54 15 Owl New York 4:40 3:20 47 New York 9:40 10:35 702 Harrisburg 10:15 2 Pocono Express Buffalo 10:30 9:40 3 Lackawanna Limited New York 12:58 12:50 6 Lackawanna Limited Buffalo 3:10 2:15 44 Binghamton 5:50 11 Scrantonian New York 6:15 5 Chicagoan New York 7:55 7:05 7 Westerner New York 11:00 10:15Passenger service discontinued in 1970.
In 1949, the streamlined Phoebe Snow replaced the Lackawanna Limited.
(Lackawanna Avenue Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 306 Interstate Express Philadelphia 1:45 am 301 Interstate Express Binghamton 5:28 am 316 Scranton Flyer Philadelphia 7:25 amArrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 306 Interstate Express Binghamton 1:45 am 301 Interstate Express Philadelphia 5:28 am 327 Scranton Flyer Philadelphia 10:45 pmPassenger service discontinued in 1954.
The Interstate Express primarily used Lackawanna trackage within Scranton, including to and from Binghamton.
(Delaware & Hudson Station)
Departures
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 501 Carbondale 6:45 505 Carbondale 3:50 507 Carbondale 5:20 509 Carbondale 6:30Arrivals
No. Name 1942 Orig. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 504 Carbondale 7:40 508 Carbondale 8:40 510 Carbondale 1:40 512 Carbondale 5:50Passenger service discontinued in 1951.
Until early 1940's, Delaware & Hudson passenger trains continued further south of Scranton to Wilkes-Barre.
Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel Scranton
Link to an official Web site, showing how the classic old Lackawanna Station has been preserved and transformed into a hotel.
Lackawanna Station 100th Anniversary
Scranton Station
Links containing further historical information on this station.
The Lackawanna Avenue Station still stands, unused.
Rail History Guide to Scranton
Fan Web site containing further information on the railroads of Scranton.
Lackawanna County Pennsylvania Railroad Stations
Link to a Web page containing further information on the historic stations.
The Delaware Lackawanna & Western main line from Hoboken to Binghamton and Buffalo was the main railroad through Scranton. The DL&W Bloomsburg Branch diverged from the main line at the Hyde Park Wye, 1 mile west of the station. The Bloomsburg Branch extended southwest to Sunbury, where the line connected with a Pennsylvania Railroad line south to Harrisburg. Also serving Scranton, and operating out of separate stations, were Central of New Jersey using the Lackawanna Avenue station, and Delaware & Hudson. The CNJ line extended south to Wilkes-Barre and Bethlehem, connecting with the CNJ main line east to Jersey City and the Reading line south to Philadelphia. From MJ Cabin, 4 miles south of Scranton, towards Wilkes-Barre, CNJ used trackage rights via D&H. D&H operated local service north to Carbondale. Some through joint DL&W and CNJ service used the Hyde Park Wye, bypassing the Lackawanna station. Those trains supposedly used CNJ's Lackawanna Avenue station, it is not clear how they accessed the station. It is known that those trains switched between the DL&W Bloomsburg Branch and CNJ and then D&H at Minooka Jct., 2 miles south of Hyde Park Wye in Taylor.