Steamtown National Historic Site
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
Five locomotives in the roundhouse
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Location	Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates	41°24′26″N 75°40′17″W / 41.40733°N 75.67132°W / 41.40733; -75.67132
Area	62.48 acres (25.28 ha)
Established	October 30, 1986
Visitors	106,309[1] (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	Steamtown National Historic Site

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 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.^[3][4]

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, U.S.A., 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.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7][8] But proponents said the site and the collection were ideal representations of American industrial history.^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[4][11]

The museum has exhibits about the history and technology of steam railroads in the United States and specifically in Pennsylvania, particularly the DL&W; life on the railroad; and the business, labor, and governmental relationships between railroads.^[4] The theater shows a short film throughout the day.^[11]

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.^[11]

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.^[11]

Engines NKP #759, CN #47, New Haven Trap Rock Co. #43, and Rahway Valley #15 have operated at Steamtown, but not since the move to Pennsylvania.^[11]

Locomotive details^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]}

Number	Images	Type	Builder	Built	Status	Notes
1		2-6-2	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1914	Display	[12]
1		Class B Shay	Lima Locomotive Works	1910	Display, awaiting possible cosmetic restoration	Damaged by building collapse in 1983.[13]
2		0-4-0T	H.K. Porter, Inc.	1937	Undergoing cosmetic restoration	Smallest locomotive in the collection.[14]
3		0-6-0T	American Locomotive Company	1927	Display	[15]
7		2-4-2T	Vulcan Iron Works	1911	Display	[24]
8		0-6-0	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1923	Display	Formerly operated on the Penn View Mountain Tourist Railroad from 1964 to 1966.[25]
15		2-8-0	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1916	Display	Originally built for the Oneida and Western Railroad as 20, operated in Vermont.[16]
26		0-6-0	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1929	Operational	Operated in excursion service from the 1990s to 1999. Returned to steam in December 2015. Runs excursion trains on the Scranton Limited.[26][18]
43		0-4-0T	Vulcan Iron Works	1919	Display
44		4-6-0	Brooks Locomotive Works	1905	Display, awaiting possible cosmetic restoration	Oldest surviving Nickel Plate Road locomotive.
47		4-6-4T	Montreal Locomotive Works	1914	Display, awaiting possible cosmetic restoration	The first steam locomotive to pull excursion runs at Steamtown, prior to the move from Vermont.[17]
132		Wabash Railroad	SW-8	1953	Display	Painted as Lackawanna No. 500.
210		2-6-0	American Locomotive Company	1923	Display
504/506		EMD F3	Electro-Motive Division	1948	Operational	Repainted as Lackawanna 663 and 664. Operates excursion trains from Scranton.[18]
514		GP-9	Electro-Motive Division	1958	Operational	Operates excursion trains from Scranton.[18]
519		2-8-0	American Locomotive Company	1913	Display, awaiting possible cosmetic restoration
565		2-6-0	American Locomotive Company	1908	Display	Only DL&W locomotive in the collection.
759		2-8-4	Lima Locomotive Works	1944	Display	Operated in excursion service between 1968 and 1973.[19][27]
790		2-8-0	American Locomotive Company	1903	Display	Oldest locomotive in the collection.[20][28]
1901		SW-1	Electro-Motive Division	1939	Undergoing overhaul
1923		2-8-0	American Locomotive Company	1920	Display	Built for Compañía Azucarera Central Reforma of Cuba as No. 8 but never delivered.
2124		4-8-4	Reading Shops	1947	Display	Built from Reading I-10sa class 2-8-0 2044[29]
2317		4-6-2	Montreal Locomotive Works	1923	Display	Sold to Nelson Blount for Steamtown U.S.A. in November 1965. Operated in excursion service from 1978 to 2010.[21] Stored inside the shops on display.[21][18]
2505		(B-B)	Pullman	1930	Display	Only piece of electric equipment in the collection.
2929		4-4-4	Canadian Locomotive Company	1936	Display, awaiting possible cosmetic restoration	Only streamlined steam locomotive in the collection.
3254		2-8-2	Canadian Locomotive Company	1917	Display	Operated in excursion service from 1987 to 2012.[22] On static display.[22][18]
3377		2-8-2	Canadian Locomotive Company	1919	Display, awaiting possible restoration	Previously used as a spare parts provider for No. 3254. Currently on static display, awaiting for a possible restoration.[30]
3713		4-6-2	Lima Locomotive Works	1934	Undergoing restoration	Named the "Constitution".[18]
4012		4-8-8-4	American Locomotive Company	1941	Display	Largest locomotive in the collection.[23][16]
6039		4-8-2	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1925	Display	Only 4-8-2 "Mountain" type in the collection.[31]
6816		0-6-0F	H.K. Porter Inc.	1923	Display	Only fireless locomotive in the collection.

Number	Images	Heritage	Type	Builder	Notes
2816		Canadian Pacific Railway	Steam	Canadian Locomotive Company	Sold to CP Rail where it operated in excursion service until 2012. Returned to operation under CPKC in 2023.[32]
1293		Canadian Pacific Railway	Steam	Canadian Locomotive Company	Sold to Jerry Joe Jacobson to operate on the Ohio Central Railroad. Now on static display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse, awaiting its 1,472-day inspection and rebuild.[33]
1278		Canadian Pacific Railway	Steam	Canadian Locomotive Company	Traded to Gettysburg Railroad for Canadian National 3254.[33] Now on static display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse.[33]
1246		Canadian Pacific Railway	Steam	Montreal Locomotive Works	The only G5 locomotive to operate in Scranton, it was sold at an auction in 1988 to the Valley Railroad in Connecticut. Now on display at the Railroad Museum of New England.[34]
1098		Canadian Pacific Railway	Steam	Canadian Locomotive Company	It was sold in 1987 to George Hart to operate for his Rail Tours Inc.. It is on static display at the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad as 225.
1218		Norfolk and Western Railway	Steam	Norfolk and Western’s Roanoke Shops	Traded to the Norfolk Southern Railway in exchange for NKP 514 and Wabash 132 to operate in mainline excursion service from 1987 to 1991. Now on static display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.
1395		Canadian National Railway	Steam	Montreal Locomotive Works	It was sold at an auction in 1988 to the Coopersville and Marne Railway in Coopersville, Michigan. It is currently stored, awaiting a cosmetic restoration.[35]
1551		Canadian National Railway	Steam	Montreal Locomotive Works	It was traded to Jerry Joe Jacobson in exchange for Baldwin Locomotive Works 26, and it became the very first steam locomotive to pull trains on the Ohio Central Railroad System. It now resides at the Age of Steam Roundhouse.[36]
5288		Canadian National Railway	Steam	Montreal Locomotive Works	It was purchased by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2001. In 2023, ownership of the engine was transferred to the Colebrookdale Railroad.[37]
1361		Pennsylvania Railroad	Steam	PRR Juniata Shops	Moved to Scranton in 1996 for a complete restoration in partnership with University of Scranton, and the Railroaders Memorial Museum. However after several years of work, the plan was cancelled in April 2010 and the engine was moved back to Altoona in 2013.[38][39][40] Currently undergoing third restoration attempt.

Several engines not part of the collection have visited the Scranton site: NYS&W #142, BM&R #425 (now Reading Blue Mountain and Northern 425), Lowville & Beaver River Shay #8, former RDG T-1 #2102 (restored and operable by Reading Blue Mountain and Northern), Milwaukee Road 261, PRR 1361 and NKP 765.^[11] "Peppersass" No.1 from Mount Washington Cog Railway visited the Steamtown Scranton site during Railfest 2016, and revisited again during March 11 to 13, 2019.

Steamtown NHS offers a variety of demonstrations, tours, and excursions that demonstrate how railroads functioned in the age of steam. Park rangers give guided tours of the locomotive shop, where one can see work being done on the steam engines in the original roundhouse area; the Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive on display; and demonstrations of the turntable on a regular basis. They also give talks on the history of Steamtown. The Scranton yard occupies about 40 acres (16 ha).

Several working locomotives take visitors on short excursions through the Scranton yard in the spring, summer, and fall. Most rides are on passenger coaches, but there are also caboose and handcar rides offered. Longer excursions are scheduled with separate tickets. These include a ride on a Pullman coach and longer trips to various nearby towns, including Carbondale, Tobyhanna, Moscow, Delaware Water Gap, Cresco, East Stroudsburg and Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania. Until 2012, Steamtown hosted RailCamp, a program put on by the National Railway Historical Society to educate future railroad employees and fans of the industry about railroad operation and preservation.^[41]

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