Steamtown National Historic Site is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawa
Five locomotives in the roundhouse
Overview of Steamtown National Historic Site
View of the turntable and museum
A Steamtown excursion crosses Tunkhannock Viaduct.
Union Pacific Big Boy
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The Union Pacific Big Boy is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the U
Steamtown National Historic Site
…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. Engines…
Publicity photo of Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4000, the first of the class, taken in 1941
The cab controls of No. 4005 at the Forney Transportation Museum in Denver, Colorado.
A close-up of a Hancock long-bell 3-chime "steamboat" whistle used on No. 4017.
No. 4014 travels the Sacramento Subdivision towards Roseville, California, in July 2024.