Steamtown National Historic Site

The Steamtown National Historic Site Steamtown short, is a railway museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the United States.

History

Steamtown was created in 1986 by a decision of the Congress into being to represent the history of the American railroads between 1850 and 1950. In summer 1995, Steamtown was finally opened.

The Steamtown idea originally came from F. Nelson Blount, an American millionaire who began years before the opening of the National Historic Site to collect historical railway vehicles. Since after his death in 1967 in a plane crash but did not have the money for such a lively, historic train depot, this original Steamtown project came to a halt until it was reinstated by Congress.

Museum and Collection

The museum uses the facilities of a former railway operating work of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The heart of the system is a roundhouse with an associated hub. In the museum premises of the visitors, the large number of exhibits, from the rolling stock up to the reconstruction of a DL & W station building, admire. As in Steamtown also operates several locomotives are stationed, the museum tour runs from spring to autumn, with short historical passenger trains in the museum area through. Furthermore, longer special trips are carried out to nearby locations.

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• NPS Steamtown

41.407222222222 - 75.671388888889Koordinaten: 41 ° 24 ' 26 " N, 75 ° 40' 17 " W

• Railway Museum in the United States
• National Historic Site (United States)
• Scranton (Pennsylvania)
• Museum in Pennsylvania