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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3W_canadian-national-railways-47_Scranton-PA.html
In 1914, the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada purchased six 4-6-4T locomotives from the Montreal Locomotive Works, a division of the American Locomotive Company. This Baltic tank locomotive carried coal and water in a coal bin and water tank built in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3V_rahway-valley-15_Scranton-PA.html
Baldwin Locomotive Works delivered this engine, a 2-8-0 Consolidation-type locomotive, to the Oneida & Western Railroad in 1916. In 1937, after twenty-one years of grueling Tennessee mountain service, the Oneida & Western Railroad sold it to the R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3U_reading-2124_Scranton-PA.html
Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during the mid 1920s as a 2-8-0, the Reading Company rebuilt #2124 among thirty other engines, as a 4-8-4 Northern in January 1947.
Reading Northerns were heavy-duty freight locomotives assigned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3T_grand-trunk-western-6039_Scranton-PA.html
In 1925, the Grand Trunk Western Railway purchased five 4-8-2 Mountain locomotives, numbered 6037 through 6041, from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. These coal-burning locomotives had cylinder-shaped Vanderbilt tenders and enclosed all-weather cabs.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3S_1902-roundhouse-office_Scranton-PA.html
Across the tracks, adjacent to the back of the new exhibit building, is the historic 1902 roundhouse office - headquarters of the roundhouse foreman.
Built in 1902, the roundhouse office is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the Delaware,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3R_union-pacific-4012_Scranton-PA.html
Locomotive #4012 is a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. The Big Boys were the longest and among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives in the world.
Even with their great size, the Big Boys were capable of reaching speeds in excess of eighty miles per …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3Q_illinois-central-790_Scranton-PA.html
This 2-8-0 Consolidation was built in 1903 by the American Locomotive Company and sold to the Illinois Central Railroad in 1904.
For many years, this engine saw hard service on the Illinois Central, hauling freight trains through Tennessee. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD3N_1902-roundhouse-section_Scranton-PA.html
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad built its second roundhouse in this location in 1902. When first constructed, this building was part of a forty-six-stall roundhouse. After an extensive modernization program in 1937, only the three loco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD2C_cnj-5-steam-derrick_Scranton-PA.html
This steam-powered wrecking crane was part of a small fleet of cars designed solely to maintain the railway - to remove wrecks and to lay, replace, and resurface the track.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey #5 steam derrick was built in 1918 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD29_1865-inspection-pit_Scranton-PA.html
Steamtown's historic roundhouse complex consists of the above - and below - ground remains of a series of roundhouses and turntables built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad between 1865 and 1937.
In advance of the new exhibit buil…