Steamtown National Historic Site

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Scranton
150 S Washington Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503(570) 340-5200
Description: If you love trains, Scranton is a must-visit location. Steamtown is one of the finest train museums in the world. This is both a visual and a physical museum. You get to climb aboard trains, pull levers and turn handles...Read More
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Steamtown National Historic Site
Steamtown National Historic Site

by onesundaymorning

Los Angeles, California

September 3, 2007

Best of IgoUgo To most Steamtown is nothing more than a dumping ground for the past where the transportation of the old days came to die among heaps of scrap metal to be forgotten about to make way for the future, but to some it’s more. Steamtown stands as a ...Read more
Steamtown National Historic Site
Steamtown National Historic Site

by cassysun

North Palm Beach, Florida

July 6, 2006

We visited Scranton on the weekend of May 20, 2006. They had a special excursion on a steamtrain from Scranton to East Stroudburg in Celebration of Armed Forces Day. On the train ride through the Poconos Mountain the park ranger told the history of ...Read more

From journal Steamtown USA

Steamtown Historic Site
Steamtown Historic Site

by hottice2nicky

scranton, Pennsylvania

September 30, 2005

The experience you get is a reminder of how the city use to be many years ago. It shows you how people worked to build the railroads and how they were built. The mall itself consists of two floors. It has a back deck that leads to the historic site. ...Read more

From journal The Mall at Steamtown

Steamtown
Steamtown

by zabelle

Portland, Connecticut

March 18, 2004

Best of IgoUgo If you love trains, Scranton is a must-visit location. Steamtown is one of the finest train museums in the world. This is both a visual and a physical museum. You get to climb aboard trains, pull levers and turn handles and pretend that you are the ...Read more

From journal Steamy Scranton

Steamtown National Historic Site (Scranton)
Steamtown National Historic Site (Scranton)

by moatway

Riverview, New Brunswick

September 29, 2003

Best of IgoUgo Steamtown is a National Historic Site run by the National Park Service. For train buffs and train watchers it is close to the Holy Grail, but for the rest of us it is educational, interesting and a great place to spend a few hours. It sits on a 40 ...Read more