Steamtown Train museum — Attraction in Scranton

VERY Good railroad museum focusing on steam powered locomotives, and steam era train culture, innovation, and it's influences on wealth and society. Wonderful for young and old (my 91 year old dad had a blast!) alike. The round house viewing platform and operational turntable demonstrations were unique in my experience with train "museums". Look, if you have even a slight interest in steam locomotives, just go! Even if you don't get out of your vehicle, you can still be awed by the 4012 Union Pacific "Big Boy" on display beside the parking lot.

If you use a walker, wheelchair or mobility scooter (like I and my dad did) you...

This museum is free. Great for kids of all ages interested in trains and history. Great tour of the roundhouse and shop. You can go inside the actual trains that ran and have been restored. Amazing craftsmanship being done there today just as in the early 1900’s. I’ll be going back to see more of the museum. So wonderful to have our history preserved with such care, dedication,...

This place took me back when I was little, and I love this place more than my life. This is my hobby, which is model railroading I been buying trains, thare and hobby stores, and some thare are the same ones at the railroad museum today and the past locomotives that was here in the 19th and...