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Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres (25.3 ha) [2] in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W).
The official steam locomotive of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, PRR 3750, famous for pulling President Warren Harding's funeral train, is on display outside of the museum. Two replicas are also included in the Pennsylvania Historic Collection, the John Bull (built 1831) and the John Stevens (built 1825). [ 4 ]
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Donated to the museum in 2018. CO-19 West Side Lumber Company #12 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-20 West Side Lumber Company #14 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-21 Royal Gorge 40 2-8-0 1921 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in ...
No. 460 was moved from Northumberland in October, 1969 to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. Although a part of the museum, it was not owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission until it was officially donated to the museum in December, 1979, by the Penn Central Transportation Company, which received ownership ...
San Jose Steam Railroad Museum (Proposed) San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Sonoma TrainTown Railroad; Southern California Railway Museum (Formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum from 1956-2018) Western Pacific Railroad Museum; Western Railway Museum; Yosemite Mountain Sugar ...
Reading 1187 is a camelback A-4b class 0-4-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.It was primarily used for yard switching services, until 1946, when it was sold to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's E&G Brooke Plant as No. 4.
The Northern Central Railway of York (reporting mark NCRA) is a non-profit, Civil War themed heritage railroad based in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. A reproduction 4-4-0 steam locomotive hauls passengers over 10 miles of Northern Central Railway track between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania . [ 1 ]
The 3750 was spared from being scrapped because, when the Pennsylvania Railroad was considering steam engines for preservation, the first K4s, 1737, built in 1914, had deteriorated to the point that it was not worth preserving. The Pennsylvania decided to scrap No. 1737 and use the No. 3750 locomotive as a stand-in with the original number ...