Delaware-Lackawanna

Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad

DL RS32 #2035 switches the Diamond Branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Locomotive was built as NYC 8035
Reporting mark	DL
Locale	Northeastern Pennsylvania
Dates of operation	1993–Present
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	85 miles (137 kilometres)
Headquarters	Batavia, New York
Website	Genesee Valley Transportation Co., Inc.

The Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad (reporting mark DL) is a shortline railroad operating in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The DL began service in August 1993 and is the designated operator for 85 miles (137 kilometres) of trackage in Lackawanna and Monroe Counties. It is a subsidiary of holding company Genesee Valley Transportation Company, Inc. (GVT). It was founded by Jeffrey Baxter, Charles Riedmiller, John Herbrand, Michael Thomas and David Monte Verde who continue to make up its corporate ownership.

GVT began in 1985 in Upstate New York marketing rail-related services to both private and public industry throughout the northeast.

Through a competitive bid process, the Lackawanna County Rail Authority selected GVT to operate its owned rail lines within Lackawanna and Monroe Counties from Scranton northeast to the city of Carbondale on the former Delaware and Hudson Railway's Penn Division mainline, from Scranton southeast into Monroe County on the former Scranton to Slateford part of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad main line now called the Pocono Mainline (also known as Pocono Main) and from Scranton southwest to Montage Mountain, Moosic on lines of the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-rail interurban streetcar line.

These are the lines hosting the seasonal passenger trains of both the Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electric City Trolley Museum and now under the jurisdiction of the new Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority. The Pocono Mainline has hosted a number of excursions out of Steamtown, including excursions of the Nickel Plate 765.