Oh, wait there are no trains that come here. It has arrived at Friday evening during the MARAC meeting here at the Radisson Lackawanna Hotel, which is a former railroad station (thanks to ADR for the flickr picture). The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The hotel has a lot of charm and some good food, including as described on the website, "The best Happy Hour in the Electric City."
However, with a really old building, there have been some "issues." Chief among them have been the problem of the elevators. Out of service last night, and spottily working today, I walked up the stairs to my floor to find technicians talking to someone stuck in the elevator. If nothing else, we MARACians are getting our exercise at this meeting.
Speaking of electricity and trains, I am off to the reception, which is being held at the Electric City Trolley Museum. Scranton is known as the Electric City because it is the first U.S. city to have a electric street car system.
We will see what the rest of the evening and tomorrow brings. Yankees vs. Red Sox tonight from Fenway, which is celebrating an anniversary today. Fenway Park opened on this day in 1912, along with Navin Field, home of the Detroit Tigers (later Tiger Stadium). Go Yankees!
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