Doc South Show

Doc South Show


JOSH AND DOC TALK ABOUT THE LACKAWANNA CUT OFF

January 23, 2016

If you're a railroad buff, this ones for you.  In this podcast, Doc speaks with Josh about a wonderful construction project known as the Lackawanna Cutoff.  It was constructed in the early 1900's.  When it was completed, I ran from the Delaware Water Gap to Port Morris in a straight and level run.  It saved all sorts of miles and time.  The cutoff still can be seen today and with a little bit of touching up could still carry traffic.  It's quite the engineering marvel and, Josh gives us some great tales of this wonderful project.  Doc even remembers seeing trains running on the cutoff.  Yeah, he's that old.