Duryea Yard

While chartered in 1846, construction of Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) was delayed for lack of investment subscriptions until into the early 1850s, when businessman Asa Packer was elected to the board of managers.

The Duryea Yard declined as I-81 finally came to Scranton and airline travel began to compete with railroads on the few products that needed to be shipped faster than by truck.

In late 2009 and early 2010, Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad expanded operations due to the emergence of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

[1] The yard lies in the borough of Duryea, a bedroom neighborhood of Pittston, itself a secondary community of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton so part of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton metropolitan area.

The main Wyoming Valley entrance is through a railyard wye to the mainline, running westbound on both sides of the Susquehanna and eastbound to Mountain Top.

Duryea Yard was established in 1870 by Lehigh Valley Railroad and is currently operated by Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad .
South entrance of Duryea yard and environs. At -B- both northbound mainlines are of equal height; running further northeast, the more northerly track to Mountain Top flies over the more southerly one to Scranton. Both elevations are well below Main St. at '-C-', the underpass below Coxton Road. Coxton Road leads immediately to some light industry, but, then, herded by Campbell's Ledge , parallels the yard and subsequent northbound main.