Expand<\/a><\/p>\nMayor Bob MacCallum \u2014 who also serves on the borough\u2019s Train Station Committee \u2014 noted committee members began crafting ideas for rehabbing the facility about a decade ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe applied for some grants and this one came through,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really to make it a safer place and for some cosmetic outside work.\u00a0We don\u2019t have particular plans yet. We have one engineer concept drawing, so we\u2019ll meet on that again with some other people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Borough Manager Cesare Forconi stressed that the station plays into Dickson City\u2019s ongoing approximately $5 million Main Street revitalization project throughout town \u2014 from Hallstead Street to Jackson Street, Jackson to Jermyn Street, Jermyn to Dundaff Street, and Main Street, down Boulevard Avenue, to Enterprise Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our conceptual plans for the future, when we were doing our parks, the train station was always part of that because it\u2019s a historical part of our community,\u201d Forconi said. \u201cThere used to be more railroad tracks than there are right now. During the heyday of coal and everything, that station was used quite extensively. It\u2019s not that it\u2019s been neglected, it\u2019s just that we haven\u2019t had enough financial resources to get the concept that we have for the future of it in place. This grant is a big start toward that. We got the caboose about 12 to 15 years ago and we want to incorporate it into the whole facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
Planned renovations of the train station include railings for improved safety and an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant ramp for better accessibility, Forconi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no easy way to get up to the platforms and it\u2019s starting to show its age,\u201d he said. \u201cIt needs either repainting or siding, some new doors, and some work on the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n
The train station hosts a visit from Santa each winter and previously served as the venue for other community events, including a farmers market, Halloween festivities and a chicken barbecue, MacCallum said. Borough officials hope to see the station transformed into a community hub serving multiple public purposes once renovations are complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe committee people are still talking about bringing some of that stuff back and maybe some other holiday events,\u201d MacCallum said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Dickson City officials plan future improvements for the borough, the train station along Boulevard Avenue remains a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1099,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-203807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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