Duryea Yard

Duryea Yard (formerly Coxton Yard, sometimes Pittston Junction, or West Pittston Yard) is a railroad yard in the Wyoming Valley region of Northeastern Pennsylvania currently operated by the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad. Originally constructed in 1870 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad as a turn-around and staging hub for coal transport from the "Coal Region" to Eastern big-city markets, the yard remains a hub for the energy extraction industry today (as of 2017^[update]).

While chartered in 1846, construction of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) was delayed for lack of investment subscriptions until into the early 1850s, when the energetic businessman Asa Packer was elected to the board of managers. The LVRR was conceived with the idea of attempting to break the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's (LC&N Co.) monopoly over bulk goods shipping on the Wyoming Valley-Lehigh-Delaware route, which was dominated by the Lehigh Canal from White Haven down river to Easton. The LVRR initially connected at Mauch Chunk to the Beaver Meadows Railroad and extended to cross the Delaware just above Easton into Phillipsburg, NJ where it connected to the Morris Canal, the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) and two smaller railroads. This gave the LVRR passenger traffic from Philadelphia and Trenton and points south, from New York City and rail connected New England communities, and freight traffic to and from all connected partners. Even before expanding northward to reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR had become the trunk line for shipping by rail in the entire Lehigh Valley; shortly after purchasing the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad, the LVRR completed its line to Wilkes-Barre in 1868.

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