Travel with Kids! - Visit Steamtown National Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania!
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Steam Town, USA
Steam locomotive short train excursion around railroad yard, Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, PA
Holiday Steam Train to Moscow
Steamtown's 3254 takes the last big run of the year as a Holiday Express to Moscow,Pa. For DVD offerings, other info and photos go to
Steam Town Scranton Pennsylvania
Scranton PA Steam town Train Museum
My buddy Shawn and I visit the Scranton Pennsylvania's Steam Town train museum. It's a cool look back at our American history. I enjoyed the trip. Thank's Shawn for filming you did great.
Here Comes the Train, Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, PA
We went for the last train ride of the season from Steamtown National Historic Site (in Scranton, PA) to Moscow, PA and back. This particular video is of the train pulling up to the station at the national park.
A Trip to Steamtowen 8/19/2015 (Part 2)
This video was shot at Steamtown National Historic Site in Downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania.
After a non-eventful first day, me and my friend Johnny Matthews came back to wait for Delaware and Lackawanna's main freight, and while waiting we saw some really good switching action.
This is the first time i seen a Alco pull a steam locomotive. It was indeed a better day. I have to get back here again some day.
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Steamtown Pepperass
Steamtown Pepperass
Steamtown National Historic Site Aerials
Some aerial views from around Scranton PA and Steamtown National Historic Site. A history lesson thrown in as well.
A Look at the Steamtown National Historic Railroad Site
Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres (25.3 ha) 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 a working turntable and a roundhouse that are largely replications of the original DL&W facilities; the roundhouse, for example, was reconstructed from remnants of a 1932 structure. The site also features several original outbuildings dated between 1899 and 1902. All the buildings on the site are listed with the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Co. Site.
Most of the steam locomotives and other railroad equipment at Steamtown NHS were originally collected by F. Nelson Blount, a millionaire seafood processor from New England. In 1964, Blount established a non-profit organization, the Steamtown Foundation, to operate Steamtown, USA, a steam railroad museum and excursion business in Bellows Falls, Vermont. In 1984, the foundation moved Steamtown to Scranton, conceived of as urban redevelopment and funded in part by the city. But the museum failed to attract the expected 200,000 to 400,000 annual visitors, and within two years was facing bankruptcy.
Overview of Steamtown NHS
In 1986, the U.S. House of Representatives, at the urging of Scranton native Representative Joseph M. McDade, approved $8 million to begin turning the museum into a National Historic Site. The idea was derided by those who called the collection second-rate, the site's historical significance questionable, and the public funding no more than pork-barrel politics. But proponents said the site and the collection were ideal representations of American industrial history. By 1995, the National Park Service (NPS) had acquired Steamtown, USA, and improved its facilities at a total cost of $66 million.
Steamtown National Historic Site has since sold a few pieces from the Blount collection, and added a few others deemed of greater historical significance to the region. By 2008, low visitor attendance and the need of costly asbestos removal from many pieces of the collection were spurring discussion about privatizing Steamtown.
Steamtown NHS is located within a working railroad yard and incorporates the surviving elements of the 1902 DL&W Scranton roundhouse and locomotive repair shops. The visitor center, theater, technology and history museums are built in the style of and on the site of the missing portions of the original roundhouse, giving an impression of what the original circular structure was like.
The museum has exhibits about the history and technology of steam railroads in the United States and Pennsylvania, particularly the DL&W; life on the railroad; and the business, labor, and governmental relationships between railroads. The theater shows a short film throughout the day.
Many locomotives and freight and passenger cars are on display. Some have open cabs and compartments that visitors can climb in and walk through, including a mail car, railroad executives' passenger car (with dining room and sleeping / lounge areas), a boxcar, two cabooses, and a recreated DL&W station with ticket window. A steam locomotive with cutaway sections helps visitors understand steam power. Part of one of the 1865 roundhouse inspection pits uncovered in archaeological excavations is also preserved in situ, under glass.
Some of the rolling stock is historically connected to the site, including a DL&W steam engine and diesel, caboose, boxcar, a former World War II troop sleeper that the DL&W converted to maintenance of way service, and numerous passenger cars. Former Oneida & Western/Rahway Valley Railroad 2-8-0 engine #15 was overhauled by the DL&W. Other noteworthy pieces are the popular Union Pacific Big Boy #4012, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) #2929 (a rare Jubilee 4-4-4), Nickel Plate Road (NKP) S-2 #759, and Reading Company (RDG) T-1 #2124.[12]
Engines NKP #759, Canadian National #47, New Haven Trap Rock Co. #43, and Rahway Valley #15 have operated at Steamtown, but not since the move to Pennsylvania
What To Do in Scranton PA? Trains at Steamtown!
On this Airstream Life vLog, we head up to Scranton PA where we check out the Steamtown Historic Site run by the National Park Service. Entrance to Steamtown is totally free which is awesome! If you would like to take a ride on a historic steam engine then the cost is something like $5 a person.
The site itself has a very interesting setup. You walk around the roundhouse and each building is something different. They have a museum detailing the history of the railroad in America and focusing on the Scranton area. You can walk through a couple of historic train cars including a mail car where they would sort the mail as they went. You can also go through the maintenance area and see a bunch more historic trains.
If you like trains or are looking for an interesting free activity to do in the Scranton area we highly recommend it! After visiting Steamtown we headed back to the campground and before you know it, it was time for us to pack up and head out. Of course, it is another cold and rainy day but we are heading to a Harvest Host with full hookups! So stay tuned for that!
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Town of Scranton, PA, USA
Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the U.S. Census, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most-populous city after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, and Reading.
Classic Diesel Power at Steamtown
On September 5, 2015, the beginning of Labor Day Weekend, Steamtown National Historic Society in Scranton, PA hosted their annual Railfest 2015. Equipment displays were on sight, as well as historic exhibits and of course, railroad excursions, such as NKP 765, which paid a visit (Video Here: as well as several diesels that call Scranton home. In this video you will see:
- The Moscow Excursion, led by Delaware Lackawanna C420 414 (Ex LV)
- The Yard Shuttle, led by recently restored to operation DLW SC 426
- Finally, the Scranton Limited, led by DL RS3 1554 (Ex CNJ)
I hope you enjoy this short video!
Steam Action At Steamtown, Scranton, PA
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Steamtown in Scranton, PA: Canadian Pacific #2317 heads east from Bridge 60
The Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA is a wonderful place to experience railroading. In this video, the museum's Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 #2317 heads east on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western mainline at Bridge 60 tower.
In the back is a freight train on the regional Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad. The Electric City Trolley Museum is just out of frame to the left.
The train is made up of a Lackawanna Boonton coach and a CNJ combine.
The video was shot in 1080i on a Canon 5D.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Scranton, Pennsylvania PA
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List of Best Things to do in Scranton, Pennsylvania (PA)
Steamtown National Historic Site
The Electric City Trolley Station and Museum
Nay Aug Park
Scranton Lake Walking Path
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
Montage Mountain
Lackawanna River Heritage Trail
Everhart Museum
University of Scranton
Scranton Traction
A look at the interurbans and trolleys that accompany the fabulous Steamtown site in Scranton PA.
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Following Steam Locomotive CN 3254 at Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, PA
CN 3254 passing by passenger platform, backing up and going into a round house
Steamtown in Scranton, Pa
Spending the afternoon at Steamtown in Scranton, Pa. Steamtown is a National Park dedicated to the railroad. It features the history of the railroad with many restored trains on display. There are also activities for children.