Ken Ganz said the park service hopes Steamtown National Historic Site will emerge as “the country’s railroad museum.” Or as Phoebe Snow might have said: “From hill and dale. The hearty and ...

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The museum opened in 1975, after acquiring the Pennsylvania historic collection in a deal with the Penn Central Railroad. When Penn Central went bankrupt, the state offered to forgive the railroad ...

SCRANTON – Plans are afoot to reuse an old tunnel as a new pedestrian access to Steamtown National Historic Site. Closed for many years, the Cliff Street underpass – a tunnel topped by rail ...

The Steamtown National Historic Site will sell part of its collection of historic railroad cars, one of the largest in the nation, at auction on Oct. 29 in Scranton. Eight locomotives, mostly ...

Ella Rayburn, who retired from the Steamtown National Historic Site as its curator in 2004, encouraged attendees to support all national parks. Without them, people lose history, forest lands ...