Pocono Mountain (NJT station)

Pocono Mountain
Location	PA Route 611 Coolbaugh Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
Line(s)
Construction
Parking	1,000 spaces (proposed)
History
Opened	proposed
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Tobyhanna toward Scranton   Lackawanna Cut-Off (proposed)   Analomink toward New York Penn Station

Pocono Mountain is a proposed New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJT) station located in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania and is part of a site that was formerly utilized as a summer camp. The proposed station site, which will include a 1,000-space surface parking lot, is located northwest of a multi-phased planned development for this area. Access will be from PA Route 611 via Pocono Municipal Road/Mount Pocono Road and a local access road. The station is not dependent on any future development within the area. Rail service from this station to New Jersey and New York City would be provided by NJ Transit if Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is completed.

Background

Mt. Pocono DL&W station, ca. 1895

The main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) Lackawanna Cut-Off passed through the southern end of the borough of Mount Pocono with service to Hoboken Terminal. A passenger station was originally built at the crossing of what is now Pennsylvania Route 611 in 1886. Most of the station was demolished in 1937 when the highway was widened. Regular passenger service to the borough ended in 1965. The DL&W tracks now carry freight trains and an occasional excursion train from Steamtown National Historic Site.

References

Preceding station		Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad		Following station
Pocono Summit toward Buffalo		Main Line		Cresco toward Hoboken