Happened to be going by Scranton on Tuesday ( 4/11 ) with a little extra time so paid a short visit to Steamtown. Arrived there at 12:15pm and I was the 3rd. car in the parking lot.

Did a quick walk through the exhibit shop areas and encountered 1 other person.

The place looked nice and all the outside exhibits were in decent shape.

The very polite Smokey in the ticket booth said that work on the 3713 was waiting on additional " fund raising" and for now is stopped.

When I asked him when the next steam excursion to the Delaware Water Gap would be he said " I don't think you'll ever see that again as it's just too demanding on the locomotives and the staff".

Your tax dollars hard at rest.

Ross Rowland