The Lehigh and New England Andreas railroad depot. Schuylkill County PA.
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Hello everyone. First let me apologize about the titles of my recent videos. For some reason youtube is deleting them and replacing them with todays date. ugh. We are taking a better look at the former Lehigh and New England Andreas station. This is in Andreas PA, Schuylkill County. Built in 1912 which is when the line was constructed. Let's take a walk and I'll fill you in. Thank you for watching. 4/22/24
What a grand old building. Hope they save it.
Someone has been clearing the grounds so maybe there is plans to fix her up. Fingers crossed 🤞
Probably a track car stored in there. The LNE was awesome!! I've hiked the entire line across NJ over the years except for maybe 1 mile of various places where it's either gone or not accessible.
Where in NJ did it go? 🚂
Good morning Mike. I was just looking at the sections of the LNE through New Jersey on Wikipedia. Looks like part of the Psulinskill valley trail is built on it. Sounds like I need to check this out.
Good morning Sheila. Google search Lehigh and New England and check out the Wikipedia page map. It is really good. They crossed the Delaware near Portland PA. That means there was a huge bridge at one point. I'm very intrigued.
@@kevinsalsbury2118 Thanks Kevin. I like the sound of that trestle 👋
One other bit of information- - my paternal grandparents owned the land where the LNE crossed route 309 in south Tamaqua which was about 200 yards south of intersection of 443 and 309. Just south of where Leiby’s Restaurant IS LOCATED.
their names were Paul and Catherine Delp.
Good morning Barbara. I have stood exactly where you are referring to. I had walked the LNE trail through South Tamaqu and followed the bed a bit further finally reaching 309. There must have been a nice size bridge to cross 309. I stopped in Leiby's after that walk for a burger and milk shake. Delicious!! My email address is ksalsbury500@gmail.com. Maybe we can talk a bit more and if all parties agree possibly I can explore the roadbed on your property.
Thank you,
Kevin Salsbury
The old Lehigh and New England went through the valley from Clamtown over our farm eastward towards the village of Snyder. It then went over route 309 and down towards Andreas. There was a siding on our farm where farm equipment was un loaded back in the early 1930’s.
Good evening Barbara. Thank you for reaching out. I have managed to follow quite a bit of this bed from Snyders north to the railtrail in Tamaqu. There are some great remains along Mush Dahl rd. I noticed there was a crossing over 895 at Snyders that is posted on both sides. Would this happen to be your property?
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Our farm is located along Mush DAhl about 1 mile from Clamtown. There is a small village called Chain at an intersection of Chain Circle and Mush Dahl. There are several overpasses along the road which lead to private farms. The farm has been in our family for 9 generations dating back to the late 1700’s - -the Ohl and BALLIET families were early owners- - Tighman BALLIET was my great great grandfather. He was the local postmaster, farm equipment dealer and magistrate for the area. Died in the 1930’s.
I noticed that Balliet was the name of the Lehigh Valley railroad station in Ashfield. Was this named for your great great grandfather?
Those metal straps in the floor may have been for railroad maintenance equipment like trailers or track speeders to easily be rolled out and then placed on the track. Just guessing since the sign said something about maintenance equipment being stored there.
@shortliner68 You nailed it with that guess. Everyone is saying the same thing and you're absolutely right. The sign does say storage for mow equipment. How cool!
Another Great Video Kevin 👍
The metal-topped wood could have been part of a maintenance-of-way operation (MOW). This type of structure was often used to hold a hand-car or speeder (a/k/a a "putt-putt car") for use by the maintenance-of-way staff to inspect the rail, watch for rock or tree falls, and verify the gauge and quality of the main railroad track between districts or stations. This was often either a shed along the track with a "T" coupling to the main track or placed into the end of a station with a door to keep the MOW vehicle from the weather when not in use.
Absolutely fantastic information! Thank you Richard 😊
There was a big bridge across 309 and was pretty high since there were so many trucks carrying coal from the mines down 309 to the Allentown/Bethlehem area.
The bridge just south of Tamaqu that crossed 309 and the little Schuylkill still has a tiny bit of the abutment left in place. It's covered in vegetation right now but I'm going to check it out in the winter. This is where it interchanged with the Reading I believe.
What a great little station. Pretty area 🚂
Definitely a cool little spot. Thanks Shelia 😊
@@kevinsalsbury2118 Kevin, I mentioned the station to my son & he said he has been in it years back. Hate to see stations like this 🥲
What an awesome find. Was that bridge a railroad bridge? Hope they rehab that station. A lot of history there.
Good morning Peter. That has always been a road bridge as far as I know. What's amazing is there is a quarry up the road and there was one dump truck after another crossing this as I was there. That bridge gets a work out everyday.
I thought it might be a railroad bridge. I could tell it was pretty old by the concrete railings.
I sure hope that station gets restored someday.
Me to my friend. It would be a shame to lose it. Not many left from the LNE.
Very informative Kevin! I would have been neat to catch both LNE and LV at the same time through there 😀
Could you imagine catching these two railroads ripping back and forth side by side with loaded down coal trains. Would have been awesome. Thank you Brian 😊
It looks fixable to me. As you mentioned, the concrete is sound. The wood however is the problem.
1: Replace the entire roof first because that's what we'd be working under at first.
2: Replace the the cross beams and floor with hardwood lumber.
3 Clean out basement, power wash walls and floor of basement, dry it out with damp rid. I recommend doing this on a hot summer day to dry out faster.
4: Clean out storage room, fix and treat original wood on storage room doors. Refloor storage room. Build new stairs leading up from storage room to office.
5: Build new doors to replace the ones missing on the building.
6:Install windows from other old buildings for a more original look.
7: Do patchwork on concrete as well as replacing any missing bricks.
8: Rebuild entire baggage dock.
9: Attach power and install period correct lighting. I'd go with 18 inch wide round porcelain enameled hanging light fixtures of the incandescent variety from barn light electric. They are the only ones left in this country who still porcelain enamel light fixtures in a kiln.
10: put antique train loading and unloading equipment in storage area.
11: Put mock up prop food from the early twentieth century in the basement.
12: Put antique coal heating stove where one used to be.
13: Put antique sitting bench in office area.
14 put in desk with antique candlestick telephone and antique 12-16 inch wide electric fan with brass blades, among other antique office equipment.
15: Clear path up to right of way and put in a mail crane where trains would go by with a hook and pick up sacks of letters.
16: Do final touches like repaint the steel railings, wooden doors and window frames. Put West Penn, Township station plaque on front and back of building
Estimated cost for all this: .............. Something we can't afford. This is where funding comes in.
That Hunter, is a remarkable list you just detailed here. I'm thinking of the finished product you just described and it's making me smile from ear to ear. Good stuff sir.
Thanks, Kevin. Glad you enjoyed it.
It also just occurred to me that I forgot perhaps the most important piece of equipment in any early to mid twentieth century railroad station, being utilized for communications across an entire rail line. The Telegraph.
love the channel.
Thank you kindly Nick.
The track followed along the road called Mush Dahl Rd. Which means mush valley in Pa. Dutch.
There is a private driveway that goes under the LNE. It's a beautiful concrete underpass with a date stamp in it. Are you familiar with this spot? It's very picturesque.
@@kevinsalsbury2118 that leads to the property owned by Gary Coles a. Local realtor.
That old depot needs to be restored and converted into something!
I'm so very hopeful that something is done with this before its to late.
The town is pronounced "An-dree-z",, I got corrected by a local about 20 years ago as I was saying it wrong also. The station certainly has decayed since I was there last 5 or so years ago. Still had roof and floors. Great auction house in town there at the intersection, Dean Arner, sometimes he has some interesting local railroad memorabilia for auction. Inside the station, thats called "strap rail", wooden rail capped with an iron strap. They would have stored a speeder in there for track inspection. Hopefully someone can repurpose the station before it's all gone.
Thanks for all that info. I was definitely saying Andre 👋
Good morning Ken. Thank you for the correction. I would have never known that. It's interesting how people pronounce words sometimes. Thank you for the strap rail information as well. Really neat! I parked at the auction house and will have to check it out for sure. I was here roughly a year ago and it was much more overgrown. Somebody definitely has been clearing the area up. Even just a partial restoration would be great. Hopefully she'll be around for a while. The concrete is strong but everything else is a bit rough.
The Skook 👍👍
Such an incredible amount of history in Schuylkill County!
Ummm don’t go in there with a collapsed slate roof!!!!
It's okay. I cover the water front also. 😆🤣
@@kevinsalsbury2118 gotcha
20 years of failure
Are you referring to folks that put up the sign?
i’m referring to myself