YouTube Video Update - Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA
This is another one of my birthday trips to Pennsylvania for the sake of trains. We're in Scranton, which is known for a gorgeous train station that was originally operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, but is used today as a hotel owned and operated by Radisson. Scranton is also known for a short line named the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad and, best of all, a fabulous railroad museum called Steamtown National Historic Site. In this video, you will see four of the Delaware-Lackawanna diesels idling at the platform section of the hotel. These were all built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) or the Montreal Locomotive Works. You will also see Reading No. 903, an FP7 diesel built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, and two of the old-style passenger cars preserved at the museum. My favorite locomotive in the museum is the Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4012. It is the largest steam locomotive on static display at Steamtown and is among the biggest and most powerful steam locomotives ever to exist in the world. Seeing the Big Boy really made my day to celebrate 21 years of my happy life!