 Region:
Entire State
Allegheny Portage Railroad
National Historic Site
P.O. Box 189,
Cresson, PA 16630
(814) 886-6150
Altoona Railroaders Museum
1300 Ninth Ave.
Altoona, PA 16602
(814) 946-0834
The Bellefonte Historical
Railroad
The Train Station,
Bellefonte, PA 16823
(814) 355-0311
The Catawissa Historical
Train Station
119 Pine St.,
Catawissa, Pa. 17820
(570) 356-2345
The Choo Choo Barn And The
Shops Of Traintown
Route 741 East,
P. O. Box 130,
Strasburg, PA 17579
(717) 687-7911
-or- (717) 687-0464
Dushore Merchants
•Jolly Trolly Variety Store
Main St.,
Dushore, Pa 18615
(717) 928-7719
•Rail Car Emporium
Railroad St.,
Dushore, Pa 18615
(717) 928-8574
•Whistle Stop Restaurant and Saloon
113 E Main St.,
Dushore, PA 18615
(717) 928-8242
The Franklin Institute
Science Museum
222 North 20th St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 448-1200
Kinzua Bridge State Park
c/o Bendigo State Park
P.O. Box A
Johnsonburg PA 15845
(814) 778-5446
Kiski Junction Railroad
PO Box 48,
Schenley, Pa 15682
(724) 295-5577
Laurel Highlands Railroad
Scottdale, PA
888-STEAMIN (in PA only) or (724) 887-4568
Middletown &
Hummelstown Railroad
136 Brown St., Middletown, PA 17057
(717) 944-4435
Miniature Railroad &
Village
Carnegie Science Center
One Allegheny Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5850
(412) 237-3400
The National Toy Train
Museum
300 Paradise Lane,
Strasburg, PA
(717) 687-8976
New Hope & Ivyland
Railroad
PO Box 634,
New Hope, PA 18938
(215) 862 2332
The Northern Central
Railway
New Freedom, PA, 17349
(800) 94-TRAIN
Oil Creek & Titusville
Railroad
7 Elm St.,
Oil City, PA 16301
(814) 676-1733
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
1 Museum Rd., Washington, PA 15301-6133
(724) 228-9256,
Toll Free: (877)PA-TROLLEY
Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania
Route 741 East,
PO Box 15,
Strasburg, PA 17579
(717) 687-8628
Reading Co. Technical &
Historical Society
PO Box 15143
Reading, PA 19612
Archives: (610) 372-5513 (answering machine)
Yard & Museum Store: (610) 926-0253
- Rail Tours Inc
PO Box 285,
Jim Thorpe Pa 18229
(570) 325-4606
The Strasburg Rail Road
P. O. Box 96,
Strasburg, PA 17579
(717) 687-7522
Steamtown National Historic
Site
150 S. Washington Ave.,
Scranton, PA 18503
(570) 340-5200,
Outside the 570 area code, call 1-888-693-9391 (Toll Free)
Stewartstown Railroad
PO Box 155,
Stewartstown, PA 17363
(717) 993 2936
Tioga Central Railroad
P. O. Box 269,
Wellsboro, PA 16901
(570) 724-0990
West Chester Railroad
Heritage Assoc.
West Chester, PA 19380
(610) 430-2233
Youngwood Historical &
Railroad Museum
1 Depot St.,
PO Box 444
Youngwood, PA 15697
(724) 925-7355 |
Chuggin’ Along in
Pennsylvania With all the hustle and
bustle in life, do you feel like you’re just chugging along to the same routine? Why
not take a diversion with romantic memories of an earlier day, when life was simpler and
there were frontiers to explore. Pennsylvania offers many tourist railroads and railroad
museums to help you take your diversion.
Whether you’re "into" trains or not, you can still
enjoy some time visiting some of America’s old iron horses. Many old railroad cars
have been turned into something other than that for which they were originally designed.
In Dushore, Sullivan County, for example some of the merchants have converted old railroad
cars or trolleys into a unique setting for their establishments. They claim, "Once
one of the leading railroad towns in the area we offer a little bit of history and a heck
of a lot of charm."
If you have kids, or want to feel like a kid yourself, a train can
bring out the child in most of us. Or, if just seeing or riding a train doesn’t do it
for you, why not visit the National Toy Train Museum or The Choo Choo Barn, both in
Strasburg, Lancaster County.
You say you don’t like to do things on a grand scale? Well,
how about H or O Scale? In the east The Choo Choo barn offers a glimpse of Lancaster
County in miniature. Almost anyone would enjoy watching the trains operating, the animated
scenes, and seeing all the heritage of the area in miniature. Or if you’re in the
western part of the state, you could visit The Miniature Railroad and Village at the
Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. Here you’ll find hundreds of different scenes,
more than 2,000 hand painted characters, and nearly 100 lifelike animations.
There are many museums throughout the state for you to visit;
Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in
Washington PA, Locomotion Commotion at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, The
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Reading Railroad Museum in Reading, The
Youngwood Historical and Railroad Museum in Youngwood, and many more.
With all of this railroading are you getting hungry yet? Many
operating tourist railroads offer unique dining experiences. New Hope & Ivyland
Railroad in Bucks County has Special Dinner and Brunch trains available. The Northern
Central Railway in New Freedom offers the dinner train "Liberty Limited",
operating every weekend. The Bellefonte Historical Railroad, in Centre County, has Ride
-n- Dine trains between Bellefonte and Restaurants at other locations along the
railroad and are operated the last Friday of each month from January through October. The
Historic Strasburg Rail Road, in Lancaster County has the Lee E. Brenner Dining Car, the
only operating wooden dining coach in America today where you can enjoy lunch aboard one
of the regularly scheduled hourly trains, or experience a truly unique dining experience
on their Dinner Train.
Well, if I’ve got you hungering for a taste of the past,
check out some of the some of the railroad spots we’ve listed in the sidebar.
All aboard!
--- Sandra Lee
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