Rail Transportation

The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD

The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, sits in the site of the Mount Clare Shops, the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States. Occupying the old Mount Clare Station and adjacent roundhouse, the museum owns one of the most significant collections of railroad treasures in the world and has the largest collection of 19th century locomotives in the U.S. Dating from the beginning of American railroading, the collection includes locomotives and rolling stock, historic buildings and small artifacts documenting the impact of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the growth and development of early [...]

The Historic Railroad Station at Gettysburg

As fighting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, broke out on July 1, 1863, wounded and dying soldiers flooded into town, and the Gettysburg railroad station became one of the battle’s first field hospitals. After railroad service was resumed, traffic consisted primarily of wounded soldiers being shipped away, and by the end of July, nearly 15,000 wounded troops had passed through the Gettysburg station. The entire first floor is currently used as a museum, open daily and free to the general public. It contains models, diagrams, exhibits, and artifacts found during renovation [...]

Steamtown National Historic Site

Steamtown National Historic Site is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania. It includes a working railroad yard and incorporates the surviving elements of the DL&W Scranton roundhouse and locomotive repair shops. Visitors can see exhibits about the history and technology of steam railroads in the United States and Pennsylvania. Many locomotives and freight and passenger cars are on display, and some locomotives are open so that visitors can climb in and see the [...]