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Steamtown National Historic Site was created in 1986 to preserve the history of steam railroading in America, concentrating on the era 1850 through 1950. This is the mission of the park. The park was not created to preserve the history of Steamtown USA. Our site does touch on the history of railroad preservation, specifically in our History Museum.
Each of the museum's exhibitions represent a certain aspect of industrial history in Pennsylvania and the nation. [2] The museum is the first affiliate museum of the Smithsonian Institution . [ 2 ] The museum was proposed in the 1990s, but was sidelined due to legal issues, which prevented clearance for opening until 2015.
Public proposals to create a railroad museum in Altoona date at least to 1938, when the Altoona Mirror published a letter to the editor suggesting the city develop a tourism industry, including a "community railroad museum", centered around its railroad history. [6] In 1959, Altoona's Chamber of Commerce proposed a similar museum. [7]
website, operated by the Jacobsburg Historical Society Pennsylvania Lumber Museum: Galeton: Potter: Northern Tier: Industry - Lumber: Documents the history and technology of the Commonwealth's forest industries, administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission: Pennsylvania Military Museum: Boalsburg: Centre: Central PA: Military
The museum's collection has more than 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars that chronicle American railroad history. Visitors can climb aboard various locomotives and cars, inspect a 62-ton locomotive from underneath, view restoration activities via closed-circuit television, enjoy interactive educational programs, and more. The Railroad ...
The New Hope Railroad (reporting mark NHRR), [1] formerly and colloquially known as the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad and New Hope Steam Railway and Museum, is a shortline and heritage railroad located in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
In 1999, the Pioneer was moved from its display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to the as yet unopened National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (The locomotive was later moved to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.) [8] [9] The 1916 CVRR Timetable
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.