Thursday, August 5, 2010

Preserving History

I was going to make these photos part of yesterday's train station blog, but they deserve to be out there on their own.

Then, I pondered making them a "Bad Photography Weekend."  After a little consideration, I decided they weren't bad enough for a "BPW."
Needless to say, this is Gouldsboro's train station.  It was built by the DL&W Railroad around 1900.  It fell into disrepair until a local group decided to save it, with some help from Wayne County.  It's now a museum, with space for community events.
You can't compare the situation here to the one in East Stroudsburg.  This station didn't burn.
Above is the train station in Dickson City.  Recent efforts have been made to save the building, and that's fantastic.  We've lost too many.

This inadvertently has become the summer of the trains here on the blog.  It was a combination of too many trips to Steamtown and the seemingly never ending situation in East Stroudsburg.

Fair warning:  there are a few more train pictures left to burn off on weekends, but not this weekend.