Currently there is a siding off of the tracks for the New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line. It is now used for equipment storage. It crosses Aloe Street (39.489632, -74.599080). In the past it was used for freight service to the Lenox facility on Tilton Road. The Lenox facility is currently vacant. |
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Forty years ago, on November 9, 1974, three teenage boys reported to the Carbondale Police that they had seen “a red, whirring ball” fly over Salem Mountain and into the mine pond near Russell Park. http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/carbondale-celebrates-40th-anniversary-of-alien-incident-1.1785352 That very same evening, I was visiting my grandparents. They lived down the street from me in Olyphant. My grandfather and I were looking out of the window toward Moosic Lake. We saw a light in the sky. It was moving from west to east. It did not appear to be a plane. We watched it drop as it traveled toward Archbald. We believed that it hit the ground between Archbald and Carbondale. The next morning, we heard the news on the radio; there was a splashdown of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in a pond in Carbondale. My grandfather and I truly believed that the light in the sky that we had seen was the UFO on its descent. I did not go to Carbondale to see it firsthand. They say that there was a glowing light in the pond. Two days later, a diver was sent to investigate. The diver retrieved a railroad lantern. Twenty-five years after the incident, one of the three that reported the UFO admitted that he had thrown a battery-powered lantern into the pond to scare his sister. Despite the lantern explanation, there are numerous stories that one evening some military vehicles went to the site and retrieved an object. Some people believe that part of a Soviet or American satellite had fallen into the pond. Presently in the Peckville section of the Borough of Blakely, PA at the corner of River Street and Depot Street stands Mid-Valley Plumbing Supply, Inc. The original part of this building was once the Peckville Station and was served by the Ontario & Western Railroad. According to the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail sign, the O&W Scranton Division operated until 1959. Across from the station on Depot Street, there remains rails from two tracks that were on the platform side of the station, along the Lackawanna River. |
AuthorJoseph Peter Klapatch is originally from Olyphant, Pennsylvania. He currently resides in the urban forests of Galloway, New Jersey with his wife, Margi. They have five children. Archives
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