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In 1911, the wooden station in Pocono Summit was replaced by a concrete structure which still stands, although now in considerable disrepair. The space closer to the tracks where the old station was, became lavishly landscaped. In the Pocono Summit area were four lakes that DL&W had tracks to, providing much freight and employment in the ice-harvesting industry. Other railroad structures west of Summit Lake included a wooden switch tower, a 60’ metal water tower like is in East Stoudsburg, three water cranes, two company houses and a wye, which is a track configuration that, in lieu of a turntable, allows an engine and tender to be redirected 180°.

Less than five miles west was even more DL&W development in Tobyhanna: Not only was there a station; a concrete switch tower, a wooden water tower, three water cranes, a wye and a grade crossing; but Tobyhanna was also the site of nine company houses, a car repair building, an underpass and a 1,280’-long spur – which became two tracks-wide in its final 390’ – serving the “Artillery Camp” during World War I. Also, evidence of the importance of the ice industry in the Poconos were huge wooden (Dare I say it?) “warehouses” at Millpond #1, Tobyhanna Lake and Warnertown Lake.

Five miles west of Tobyhanna is another DL&W station: Gouldsboro, the premiere ice harvesting town in the Poconos, featuring a 714-car capacity yard with concrete switch tower and various railroad-related buildings.

So that leaves the door open for future articles in Pocono Living about the railroads’ importance to the ice industry in the Poconos, as well as the 1955 flood’s effect on DL&W, and more.

Kim Williams is a lifelong resident of Monroe County, an amateur photographer and president of a local historical group. “The Flood” and the County’s railroad history are of particular interest to him. Kim’s two daughters — a doctor & a teacher — are sources of pride.