Today Rich and I attended an awesome presentation of “A Ride on the D&H Gravity Railroad: Honesdale to Carbondale” by John Revak at the Waymart Area Historical Society, in the old railroad depot. Dad met us at the gravity museum depot, which he has never seen before. Everyone at the historical society was pleased that more than 30 people attended, since audience numbers for similar presentations had been so inconsistent in the past (swinging from over 30 to only two). Seeing the old photographs emphasized to me how it’s a minor miracle that we can still locate any of the survey markers that we search for, since so much has changed in, really, very little time.
On our way to the museum, we passed over a small, quite obviously old bridge along Route 296. I expected that there might be an old PDH mark set on it somewhere. After the presentation and a late lunch of pizza and sandwiches at Waymart Hotel, Rich and I stopped to check the wingwalls of the bridge. And there it was, on the southeast wingwall (and the first one we checked): a PDH disk, rather recently stamped by PennDOT. It was a fitting end to a day of historical education!