Slateford Junction

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Slateford Junction, Pennsylvania, looking north to the Delaware Water Gap. The Lackawanna Cut-Off (left) and the Old Road (right) converge about 1,500 feet (460 m) past Slateford Tower (obscured by trees, left).

Slateford Junction was a railway junction in the small town of Slateford, Pennsylvania, where the existing mainline of the Lackawanna Railroad joined the new Lackawanna Cut-Off.

The junction sat 28.5 miles (46 km) west of Port Morris Junction where the Cut-Off connects with New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line. When the Cut-off opened, it had four tracks (two main tracks and two sidings) at this location, and the Old Road had two.

The junction had an interlocking tower and turntable, but no station. The tower opened on December 20, 1911, four days before the Cut-Off itself. The small Slateford turntable saw limited use; it was dismantled in the 1930s and its pit filled in shortly thereafter. The tower closed on January 11, 1951; its operations were shifted to the tower at East Stroudsburg.[1][2]

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  1. Lackawanna's Silent Sentinels - Their Concrete Towers, by Bob Bahrs; Flags, Diamonds & Statues, Volume 21, No. 2 (April 2012).
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