 The Sunbury Line is also a former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad property as the Sunbury Line's Scranton, Pennsylvania to Binghamton trackage was once part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western main line; this part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western main line which is now part of the Sunbury Line contains the Nicholson Cutoff and former Lackawanna and Western Railroad trackage.The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western later merged with the Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railway.The PRR Wilkes-Barre Branch ran from the downtown Wilkes-Barre rail cluster southwest to Sunbury along tracks on the east (left) shore of the North Branch Susquehanna River.