Pocono Mountain is a proposed

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(NJT)

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located in

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and is part of a site that was formerly utilized as a summer camp. The proposed station site, which will include a 1,000-space surface parking lot, is located northwest of a multi-phased planned development for this area. Access will be from

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via Pocono Municipal Road/Mount Pocono Road and a local access road and the platform would be situated east of the track. Rail service from this station to

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and

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would be provided by

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Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project The Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is a New Jersey Transit and Amtrak effort to restore passenger service to the Lackawanna Cut-Off in northwest New Jersey. Begun in 2011 and underway as of 2022, the project's Phase 1 is meant to exten ...

is completed. In spring 2021,

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announced plans for potential New York-Scranton route.

Background

The main line of the

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad) was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey (and by ferry with New York City), a distance of . Incorporated in ...

(DL&W) and, farther east, the Lackawanna Cut-Off in

passed through the southern end of the borough of

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and continued to

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. A passenger station was originally built at the crossing of what is now Pennsylvania Route 611 in 1886. Most of the station was demolished in 1937 when the highway was widened. Year-round passenger service to the station had ceased in 1956. Thereafter, trains would only stop at the station during summer months. The final years of summer service on the merged

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were for the ''Twilight'' (Hoboken to Scranton) and the ''Pocono Express'' (Scranton to Hoboken), with the last summer being 1965. The disappearance of these trains from the timetable later in the year marked the end for service at this station. The former DL&W tracks now carry freight trains for the

Delaware Lackawanna Railroad The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad is a shortline railroad operating in Northeastern Pennsylvania, especially the Scranton area. DL began service in August 1993 and is the designated operator for of trackage in Lackawanna, Wayne, Northampton, a ...

and an occasional excursion train from

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. However, service in adjacent

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on the

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's '' Lake Cities'' (Hoboken-Scranton-Binghamton-Chicago) in the west-bound direction continued to January 5, 1970. Nearby Cresco saw ''Lake Cities'' service in both the westbound and eastbound service.Sanders, Craig (2003). Limiteds, Locals, and Expresses in Indiana, 1838–1971. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ., 145–149

References

External links

Lackawanna Cut-Off map
{{NJT stations navbox Proposed NJ Transit rail stations Railway stations in Pennsylvania Former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations Transportation buildings and structures in Monroe County, Pennsylvania