Steamtown National Historic Site (Scranton, Pennsylvania)

USA / Pennsylvania / Scranton / Scranton, Pennsylvania / Cliff Street, 350
 museum, place with historical importance, railway roundhouse, railway turntable, railroad yard, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, railway museum
350 Cliff Street
Scranton, PA 18503
(570) 340-5200
www.nps.gov/stea/

A heritage railway and museum located on 62 acres (0.25 km²) in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). The museum is built around and incorporates a working turntable and roundhouse, which includes two original roundhouse sections built in 1902 and 1937.

Established by an act of Congress on October 30, 1986, Steamtown officially opened to the public in the summer of 1995.Congress established Steamtown to interpret the story of main line steam railroading between 1850 and 1950.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamtown_National_Historic_Site
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Coordinates:   41°24'27"N   75°40'16"W

Comments

  • i went there lots of times its really cool u can find coal and other srtuff on the groudn there if u look
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