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⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking tour of Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania 

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June 5, 2022 - 4:00 PM
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Walking around the Steamtown National Historic Site in downtown Scranton.
From Wikipedia:
Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) 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, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). The museum is built around a working turntable and a roundhouse that are largely replications of the original DL&W facilities; the roundhouse, for example, was reconstructed from remnants of a 1932 structure. The site also features several original outbuildings dated between 1899 and 1902. All the buildings on the site are listed with the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Co. Site.
Most of the steam locomotives and other railroad equipment at Steamtown NHS were originally collected by F. Nelson Blount, a millionaire seafood processor from New England. In 1964, Blount established a non-profit organization, the Steamtown Foundation, to operate Steamtown, U.S.A., a steam railroad museum and excursion business in Bellows Falls, Vermont. In 1984, the foundation moved Steamtown to Scranton, conceived of as urban redevelopment and funded in part by the city. But the museum failed to attract the expected 200,000 to 400,000 annual visitors, and within two years was facing bankruptcy.
In 1986, the U.S. House of Representatives, at the urging of Scranton native Representative Joseph M. McDade, approved $8 million to begin turning the museum into a National Historic Site. The idea was derided by those who called the collection second-rate, the site's historical significance questionable, and the public funding no more than pork-barrel politics. But proponents said the site and the collection were ideal representations of American industrial history. By 1995, the National Park Service (NPS) had acquired Steamtown, USA, and improved its facilities at a total cost of $66 million.
Steamtown National Historic Site has since sold a few pieces from the Blount collection, and added a few others deemed of greater historical significance to the region. By 2008, low visitor attendance and the need of costly asbestos removal from many pieces of the collection were spurring discussion about privatizing Steamtown.

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Комментарии : 8   
@cjstrainsandadventures2124
@cjstrainsandadventures2124 Год назад
1:29 that's me ringing the bell I remember that and I saw myself in this video to.
@davidmanley9437
@davidmanley9437 Месяц назад
For the magnitude of this collection SO MUCH COULD BE DONE Lack of $ ?
@markgabriel5797
@markgabriel5797 Месяц назад
Steamtown is ran by the US Government. I think that statement says it all.
@camilledesimone6625
@camilledesimone6625 Год назад
Nice weld patches work on that one Loco
@cabinvibesebaystore8956
@cabinvibesebaystore8956 2 года назад
New sub! Liked 🙏👍
@maxwellwalcher6420
@maxwellwalcher6420 2 года назад
I Got an Idea would New Crews steamed Reading 2124 NKP 759 GTW 6093 CN 3254 and CP2317.
@voidjavelin23
@voidjavelin23 3 дня назад
where will you got the money? thats the catch
@johnnylightning7493
@johnnylightning7493 Год назад
I used to hang out there 2002 an 3 with my son eat at food court an buy transformer robots in boscoves
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