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Pennsylvania - Lake Shore Railway Historical Society
North East, PA - The LSRHS Museum complex is a neighborhood revitalization anchor for its section of North East Borough and provides a safe and open area for viewing railroad operations (as citied in nationally distributed Trains Magazine). In addition to the historic locomotives and rolling stock we have many other artifacts and much equipment pertinent to America's and the region's railroad heritage, all maintained by LSRHS at the museum. The LSRHS museum is open to the public on a regular basis for 100+ days from April to October, as well as the two weekends immediately following Thanksgiving. The LSRHS Museum grounds are open to the public year-round, weather permitting.
Info: URL: https://lakeshorerailway.com/ (Added: 15-Dec-2005)
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Pennsylvania - Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum
Ligonier, PA - The Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum is located 3 miles west of Ligonier, Pennsylvania and is housed in an original Ligonier Valley Rail Road station that was built around 1896. The Ligonier Valley Rail Road Association acquired the property in 2005 Darlington Station 1934 and raised funding to restore the station. The project took about 2 ½ years and it was opened as the Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum on May 21, 2010. The photo on the left shows the station in 1935. Darlington Station 2008The photo on the right shows the station as it is today as the Ligonier valley Rail road Museum.
The mission of the museum is to preserve the history of the Ligonier Valley Rail Road. The Railroad was founded by Judge Thomas Mellon and began passenger operation on December 1, 1877 and during the course of its 75 years of operation it carried 9 million passengers and hauled 32 million tons of freight. The last run occurred on August 31, 1952.
The Museum collection includes over 3,000 items. The Museum itself houses a variety of items including lanterns, locks and keys, PRR and B&O dinnerware, and a wall map of the right of way of the LVRR. We also have a small HO gauge model RR as well as videos relating to the LVRR and other railroads.
Info: URL: https://www.lvrra.org/ (Added: 5-Mar-2014)
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Pennsylvania - Middletown & Hummelstown Rail Road
Middletown, PA - Visitors to the M&H Railroad will enjoy an 11-mile train ride along the Swatara Creek, while learning the history of the area. Passengers board our 1920's vintage, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western coaches at our 1891 Freight Station in Middletown or at the Indian Echo Caverns Platform.
During the ride, the train follows the towpath of the historic Union Canal and alongside the peaceful Swatara. The narrator relates the history of the Canal (completed in 1822) and the location of Canal Lock #33, as well as a century old limekiln and Horse Thief Cave. Passengers will have a "photographic moment" while crossing a 35-foot tall bridge above the Swatara Creek.
Info: URL: https://www.mhrailroad.com/ (Added: 13-Jun-2000)
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Pennsylvania - Monongahela Incline
Pittsburgh, PA - The Monongahela Incline often called the Mon Incline for short is the oldest continuously operating funicular railway in the U.S. It opened on May 28, 1870, and has since then transported millions of passengers.
The recently refurbished Monongahela Incline was built in 1870 by engineer John J. Endres, and has been in nearly continuous use for almost a century and a half. It was the first passenger funicular railway built in the United States. Added to The National Register of Historic Places in 1977, this icon of Pittsburgh history was built to transport workers up and down "Coal Hill" which was otherwise almost inaccessible from the city proper. "Coal Hill" is now known as Mount Washington.
Info: URL: https://monongahelaincline.com/ (Added: 30-Oct-2016)
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Pennsylvania - New Hope & Ivyland Railroad
New Hope, PA - Ride aboard the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad passenger train and travel into a scene from the past. Relax and leave your cares behind as you journey into history, learning what rail travel was like for your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Behold the continuously changing view as the train traverses through the rolling hills and valleys of historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Enjoy our restored 1920s vintage passenger coaches, antique bar car, a real steam locomotive or one of our historic diesel locomotives. The train will take you along the same historic route that was filmed in the 1914 movie series Perils of Pauline.
Info: URL: https://www.newhoperailroad.com/ (Added: 20-Dec-2000)
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Pennsylvania - Newton Square Railroad Museum
Newtown Square, PA - The freight station is the last vestige of the Newtown Square branch of the P.R.R. freight and passenger line that once rumbled 9.2 miles through the township to Philadelphia.
To make room for the Winding Way by-pass road, the station was moved to its new home on the Drexel Lodge site on West Chester Pike. The Newtown Square Historical Preservation Society was pleased to have the opportunity to move and save this valuable piece of history. The Historical Society will start a complete restoration on May 11, 2000. They plan to use it as a railroad museum, preserving a piece of our history for future generations. In 2006 it was transferred to the Newtown Square Penn Railroad Museum Association.
Info: URL: https://newtownsquarerailroadmuseum.org/ (Added: 30-Oct-2016)
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Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Lumber Museum
Galeton, PA - The Museum preserves and interprets the colorful heritage of the Commonwealth's prosperous lumber era when white pine and hemlock were the wealth of the nation.
Take a tour of the grounds where a 1912 Shay-geared logging locomotive and Barnhart Log Loader are on display. Experience the rugged lifestyle of the woodhicks in our re-created logging camp. Watch our sawmill turn logs into lumber by joining us during the annual Bark Peeler's Convention event.
Info: URL: http://lumbermuseum.org/ (Added: 28-Jan-2001)
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