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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Switch Shanty, 350 feet Southeast of Bridge No. 60, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA
Summary
Significance: The switch shanty functioned as a switchman's shelter and as a center of communication in the middle of the busy Scranton yards. The building is unimposing, but was necessary to the yards' operation.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-24
Survey number: HAER PA-132-B
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920
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Date
1920
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Steamtown National Historic Site
Steen, Kathryn, historian
Tuzson, Martha, delineator
Harrell, Mark, photographer
Location
Scranton (Pa.), 41.40897, -75.66241
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
