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Gravel Place
Location
Gravel Place switching tower, 2015
Location	Arlington Heights, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates	41°01′06″N 75°11′44″W / 41.01833°N 75.19556°W / 41.01833; -75.19556
Characteristics
Type	Locomotive
History
Opened	1882
Closed	c. 1950 (1950)
Original	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

DL&W drawing from 1919 of equipment used at Gravel Place pumphouse

Gravel Place is a location within Arlington Heights, Pennsylvania, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of East Stroudsburg. It is neither incorporated nor a census-designated place, but has a name recognized by the USGS. From the 1880s to about 1950, it was a railroad yard of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) on its mainline from Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey, which served New York City by ferry, to Scranton, Pennsylvania, continuing northwest into New York State with its western terminus in Buffalo, New York. It is just north of present Mill Creek Road.

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