Steamtown USA - Scranton, PA - Railroad Museums on Waymarking.com

The museum is built around and incorporates a working replica turntable and roundhouse, which includes two original roundhouse sections built in 1902 and 1937.

Established by an act of the United States Congress on October 30, 1986, Steamtown officially opened to the public in the summer of 1995, and celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2005. Congress established Steamtown to interpret the story of main line steam railroading between 1850 and 1950.

Much of the collection of steam (and a few diesel) locomotives and freight and passenger cars was originally part of Steamtown USA. That collection was originally assembled by the late F. Nelson Blount and was located in several places in the northeast United States before moving from Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Scranton in 1984. Blount's death in an airplane accident in 1967 had cut off the main financial support for Steamtown USA, but much of his original dream to have a museum in a working railroad yard with excursions on steam trains and a functional locomotive shop has been realized at Steamtown NHS.

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Museum Website: [Web Link] Train ride provided?: yes Actual railroad cars or locomotives on display?: yes Admission fee?: 0 Street Address: 150 South Washington Avenue Gift shop?: yes Café/restaurant?: no Theater?: no Other features?: This is one of our National Parks. The tour into the working engine shop is very worth while.

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