From Wikipedia:

"East Stroudsburg is an historic train station built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1856. The station served as the local stop for both East Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The depot, recently known locally as the Dansbury Depot for the restaurant that used the building, is located on Crystal Street in East Stroudsburg. Service to East Stroudsburg ended on January 5, 1970, when the Erie Lackawanna Railway discontinued the Lake Cities."


A portion of the station was destroyed by fire on October 26, 2009, damaging about half of the structure. The fire-damaged portion of the building was demolished in early August 2010. In 2011 the remaining portion of the building was moved across the tracks and rotated 180 degrees, so the same side of the building faces the tracks now as it did before the move, and the building has since been restored. A condominium building has been constructed on the former site of the station.


The station in 1975:

Train BC-2 passes the East Stroudsburg passenger station and Tower in October 1975.

Note that prior to October 1975 the station had been painted in the "red dip" colors, but the Tower remained in the green with red trim paint scheme.


Here's the building after the fire. A sad sight:

From the Strouodsburg Fire Department's website "www.stroudsburgfire.com"


After rotating and moving the less-damaged portion of the building, it was then restored:

From Wikipedia. Date unknown.


Area Industries

Although East Stroudsburg boasted quite a few on-line industries (for the time), they were fairly spread out. Bill Sheppard's book Schematic Track Diagrams of the Erie Lackawanna Railway, dated 1974, shows 13 industrial spurs in the Stroudsurg area in about eight miles of railroad. Those spurs included Hughes Printing, Cramer Lumber, a team track, an unlabelled track I've been told was used by "General Supply," a "company track," and the Boiler Works, all of which I have included in my model of East Stroudsburg.

Below are pictures of a several of those industries; unfortunately most of the pictures were taken from an Erie Lackawanna Historical Society railroad excursion trip, many from the moving train, so I apologize in advance for the quality.

Hughes Printing, slightly west of the station on the same side of the tracks:

Rich Taylor shot of train HS-9, passing Hughes Printing (just visible to left of caboose ... note the sign painted on the single-story brick building), on May 1, 1966.




Still under construction, sorry!
More to come.