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The Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway follows PA 92 between Tunkhannock, Wyoming County and Lanesboro, Susquehanna County. The byway provides access to two railroad viaducts, the Starrucca Viaduct and the Tunkhannock Viaduct , along with the Susquehanna County Historical Society Museum and The Florence Shelly Preserve.
PA 92 continues through more forests with some farm fields and homes before reaching the New York border, where the road continues into that state as NY 79. [1] [4] Between Tunkhannock and Susquehanna Depot, PA 92 is known as the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway, a Pennsylvania Scenic Byway. [5]
This is a list of cities and towns along the Susquehanna River and its branches in the United States, in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. These communities and their surroundings are collectively referred to as the Susquehanna Valley.
Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
HAER PA-92, HABS PA-1669: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls: CSX Trenton Subdivision: 1890 Wrought iron plate girder; HAER PA-553: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct
The breakup of these companies resulted in the reassignment of operational rights to Norfolk Southern; the WNY&P took ownership in 2006 as it extended its trackage from Meadville, Pennsylvania to Oil City. [1] Because the bridge once served as a major junction point for several Pennsylvania Railroad lines, it features a unique approach structure.
The DL&W built the viaduct as part of its 39.6-mile (63.7 km) Nicholson Cutoff, which replaced a winding and hilly section of the route between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York, saving 3.6 miles (5.8 km), 21 minutes of passenger train time, and one hour of freight train time.
U.S. Route 220, U.S. Route 15 and U.S. Route 6 cross the region. [1]Sayre Yard is a large railyard currently operated by Norfolk Southern Railroad that extends across the state line into Waverly, New York and connects rail transport centers via Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to freight yards in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Baltimore to Buffalo and other Upstate New York cities as well as the ...