From the wye with the Delaware & Hudson line at Scranton (Bloom), the former DL&W main line now operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad heads just east of due south, passing Bridge 60, over the former route of an Ontario & Western line, a street on the north side of the river, the Lackawanna River, the original Delaware & Hudson line now operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna, and another street, all on the same concrete bridge, the Bridge 60 Tower on the west side at the northern boundary of the Steamtown National Historic Site, where there is extra track on the east side and four museum tracks split off to the west, turning southeast past the foot crossing between the museum parking lots, the footbridge into the museum, and the Steamtown National Historic Site Station (MP 133.6), an island platform with umbrella shed, one side of which has the overhead electrified track used by the trolley line.
The main museum facilities (including the roundhouse and many tracks) are on the southwest side of the line, with the buildings of the Mall at Steamtown to the east, the track from the east leg of the wye on the east side of the line, and the electrified track to the west, and turning west past the buildings of the former Lackawanna locomotive works (more recently a defense contractor) on the south side, a bridge over a street, a tower on the south side of the line, with the two former Lackawanna tracks on its north side and the electrified trolley line, starting to descend to street level, on its south side, a bridge over Cedar Street, with the former Lackawanna now running on viaduct, the DL&W Scranton Passenger Station (MP 133.1), with the former DL&W headquarters building now used as the Radisson Hotel on the north side of the line, a bridge over a street, an extra track on the west side of the two main-line tracks, a grade crossing to facilities, and a concrete viaduct overhead.
The line now used for passenger excursions from the Steamtown Museum heads southeast after passing the former DL&W station, on the former DL&W double track formation, running up a wooded river valley (of the Rocky Fork) at a 1.5% grade, with the line on a ledge above the Rocky Fork, and turning just north of due east past a rock wall to the east, a former signal bridge over the line, where the second track ends, a bridge over the Rocky Fork, the 755 ft. Nay Aug Tunnel (MP 131.8), with an adjacent disused former tunnel for the erstwhile second track, north, past a grade crossing and a bridge over the river, northeast past a through girder bridge over the river, the location of a former Erie Railroad overbridge (MP 130.8), where the bridge abutments remain, a concrete road bridge overhead, and a "Pennsylvania Coal Company" building on north side of tracks (MP 130.6).
There is a bridge over ??, and the line runs on a ledge on the west side of the river, turning southeast, just north of east, northeast, and south-southeast, crossing a tributary on the curve, past Reservoir number 7 (MP 129.3) on the west side of the line, east-southeast, with a rock wall to the east, and a former second track on the west side, past an old signal bridge overhead, dual road bridges overhead (I-81), a location where another Erie line once crossed on a still-extant through truss bridge, the end of the extra track to the west, south, past the former location of teh second track to the west, in the woods, an old road bridge overhead, a pond to the west, dual road bridges overhead (I-380), a road alongside to the west, and a concrete road bridge overhead, southeast past Elmhurst Reservoir (MP 123.2), on the east side of the line, where the grade lessens to 1.01%, and south past an old signal bridge (MP 120.6), a grade crossing in town, the concrete Moscow (MP 120.5) passenger station and freight depot on the east side of the line, a road to the west, in town, a bridge over a road, an old signal bridge overhead, a bridge over a road, a marsh alongside to the west, an old signal bridge overhead, an old pole signal to the west, a road to the west, and a grade crossing.
The Lehigh Wye, used for turning helper locomotives, was once located at "Summit" (MP 114.8, not an actual summit), and the line continues just east of due south, past a road to the east, a pond or lake to the west, lakes on the east side formerly used for ice harvesting (MP 113.8), a lake to the west, Gouldsboro Station (MP 112.9), with its wooden depot to the west, a grade crossing, the concrete Gouldsboro Tower (MP 112.2) to the east, and a wooden freight house to the west, where the climb from Scranton ends a lake to the west, a pond to the east, a pond to the west, a road to the east, a seven-track yard for the Tobyhanna Army Depot (MP 108.4), across the road to the east, an old signal bridge overhead, a bridge over a road, a road to the west, a spur curving away east, extra track to the east, Tobyhanna (MP 107.6), wooden station building to the west, a grade crossing, and concrete tower, on the west side of the line.
There is a bridge over a road, a lake to the east, a bridge over a road, an angled road bridge overhead, an old singal bridge overhead, the erstwhile Pocono Summit wye (MP 103.4), to the west, the Pocono Summit Tower (MP 103.2), a lake to the west, a lake to the east, and a bridge over a stream between them, the concrete Pocono Summit Station (MP 102.5), a grade crossing, a road to the west, a concrete road bridge overhead, and Mount Pocono (MP 101.4), with platform and shelter to the north, where the line turns east, descending a 1.57% grade on the east side of the mountains, extra track to the north (D-L customer for grain hoppers), a former autorack yard to the north, a road bridge overhead, a bridge over a road in Mt. Pocono, a view over the land below, to the south, and a bridge over a road, making a counter-clockwise horseshoe curve back to the west, past a grade crossing at Devil's Hole Road, and extra track to the "west"/"south", and a clockwise horseshoe to the northeast, past the former location of daylighted Paradise Tunnel (MP 97.0), and then east, past a road bridge overhead and the Cresco Passenger Station (MP 94.6), where the line turns south, there was once a spur northeast to Mountain Home, and the wooden depot is on the east side of the line.
The line turns south, as it descends the east side of the Pocono Mountains, now at a 1.44% grade, past a rail-served lumber yard on the south side, a grade crossing, the land to the west dropping away, a grade crossing, an old signal bridge overhead, a ledge above the valley to the "west", in the woods, southeast, past a bridge over a road, a dirt track grade crossing, a bridge over a river, and a road alongside to the "east", just east of due south, past extra tracks to the "west", south past a concrete tower on the east side at Analomink (MP 85.7), where the grade lessens to 0.51%, and Gravel Place (MP 83.0), where an erstwhile Wilkes-Barre & Eastern line was once alongside to the west, east past extra track on the north side, a tower on the north side, a grade crossing, the old wooden depot on the south side (burned in October, 2009) at East Stroudsburg (MP 81.6), where a shortline once headed away northeast, a road bridge overhead, a street alongside to the south, a bridge opver a road, a rocky cutting, a stream to the south, a through girder bridge over the stream with an angled road bridge overhead, south across the route of the erstwhile WB&E, past a grade crossing, a bridge over a stream, a ledge above the valley to the east, a brick depot to the west, an angled road bridge overhead, the west bank of the Delaware River at Water Gap, and just east of due south, along the riverbank, with a road alongside to the west, to Slateford Junction (MP 74.3), with additional track on each side, where the erstwhile (and soon to be renewed) Lackawanna Cutoff once turned east across the river, and another erstwhile former Lackawanna line continued just east of due south along the west bank of the river, to cross over further south to Manunka Chunk and Washington, NJ.