Delaware-Lackawanna logged record traffic in June

In June, the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Co. Inc. (DLRR) reported 1,068 carloads, marking an all-time monthly record for the northeastern Pennsylvania short line.

Through the first six months of 2018, the railroad handled 4,829 cars, marking a 13 percent increase over the same period last year, said Larry Malski, president of the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority, which owns the DLRR.

In 2017, the short line logged an all-time yearly record of 8,572 cars.

"The rail renaissance continues in Lackawanna and Monroe Counties," Malski said in a press release. "We are now starting the process of relaying some of the double track and yard tracks that were ripped up in the 1980s with the DLRR's successful award of a $980,000 [Pennsylvania Department of Transportation] Bureau of Rail Freight grant."

The updated tracks will enable DLRR to add capacity needed for increasing carloads.