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The Steamtown National Historic Museum - Online Term Paper

The Steamtown National Historic Museum

THE STEAMTOWN NATIONAL HISTORIC MUSEUM

11/10/13

Michele Mascioli

As taken from the National Park's website pictured left is the Union Pacific "Big Boy" #4012, on display at Steamtown NHS, appears ready to depart with some of Amtrak's modern Superliner II passenger equipment from Railfest 2008.

Michele Mascioli
Fine Arts FA 102-75
Mr. Robert Cigarski

The Steamtown National Historic Museum

For this essay I decided to write about my experience when I had visited the Steamtown National Historic Museum with my grandson a couple months ago for his birthday. My grandson Michael ever since he was a baby loved learning about the railroad system in our country and every type of ...

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the Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad or DL&W. This museum is huge. Its design astonished me. It had a working turntable and a roundhouse that were made as replicas of the ones used by DL&W. A turntable is a device that helps turn the locomotives and a roundhouse is a building where the locomotives are serviced. As stated on the national parks website "the replications of the roundhouse were constructed out of the remnants of a 1932 structure."
What really caught my eye that day was a video that we were shown. In this video shown in the theater at Steamtown showed a day in a life of a man and his career with the railroad. The film was called Steel and Steam. It amazed me to see how much the railroad has changed during the 20[th] century. You can see that when you enter the museum. Once inside the museum you are transported through time beginning with the early days of the railroad through the 1980's. Since Pennsylvania is known for its anthracite ...

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Added: 11/16/2013 08:18:00 PM
Submitted By: masciolm
Category: Geography
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 794
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