1902/1937 Roundhouse

The roundhouse was and remains the heart of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western yards, where mechanics performed daily maintenance on steam locomotives through routine inspections, light repairs, and boiler washes amid hissing steam, pounding hammers, and the drone of engines. During the 1940s and 50s, the diesel electric locomotive, with its different maintenance requirements, made the roundhouse obsolete, and in the 1950s the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western removed two-thirds of its Scranton roundhouse. The largest of the three remaining sections of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's 1902/1937 roundhouse was later carefully restored by the National Park Service to working condition, and it is once again used to house and service steam locomotives.

Scranton, Pennsylvania · United States