Editing Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (section)

===Rail===
The city was at one time served by the [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]], [[Central Railroad of New Jersey]], the [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]] (later [[Erie Lackawanna Railway]]), [[Delaware and Hudson Railway]], the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], the [[Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad]], and the [[Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad]] (known as the Laurel Line). CNJ trains included the ''[[Interstate Express]]'' (ending in 1957) and local service to Allentown and Philadelphia. The last Lehigh Valley trains were the ''[[Black Diamond (train)|Black Diamond]]'' (ending in 1959), ''John Wilkes'' and ''[[Maple Leaf (LV train)|Maple Leaf]]'' (the last two, ending in 1961).

The Wilkes-Barre Traction Company formed a [[streetcar]] line from [[Georgetown, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Georgetown]] to [[Nanticoke, Pennsylvania|Nanticoke]] and over the river into [[Plymouth, Pennsylvania|Plymouth]] (it ceased operations in the mid-1940s).

The [[Norfolk Southern Railway]], which acquired the former Delaware and Hudson line from successor [[Canadian Pacific Railway]], and the [[Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway]], provide freight service within the city.