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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. STEAMX_031008_057.JPG: The train engine comes into the circle and is rotated so it can go into its shelter.
2. STEAMX_031008_091.JPG: This is a steam-powered snow blower that would run along the tracks and eliminate big drifts.
3. STEAMX_031008_093.JPG: This is a snow plow railroad engine
4. STEAMX_031008_106.JPG: Union Pacific #4012 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 hour. Steamtown's #4012 is 132'-10" long and with a loaded tender weighs 1,189,500 pounds. In service, it carried twenty-eight tons of coal, 24,000 gallons of water, and developed a tractive force of 135,375 pounds.
5. STEAMX_031008_112.JPG: The engine is front: Bullard Company #2 This oil-burning steam engine was designed to be operated by a single engineer-fireman and was among the smallest standard-gauge locomotives every built, Locomotive #2 operated up and down the railroad sidings and loading tracks outside the Bullard Company's Bridgeport, Connecticut, machine tool manufacturing plant. Locomotive #2 switched freight cars to and from the loading tracks and lined up loaded cars to be picked up by a freight train.
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Wikipedia Description: Steamtown National Historic Site
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Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62 acres (0.25 km�) 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 and incorporates a working replica turntable and roundhouse, which includes two original roundhouse sections built in 1902 and 1937.

History:

Established by an act of the United States Congress on October 30, 1986, Steamtown officially opened to the public in the summer of 1995, and celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2005. Congress established Steamtown to interpret the story of main line steam railroading between 1850 and 1950.

Much of the collection of steam (and a few diesel) locomotives and freight and passenger cars was originally part of 'Steamtown USA'. That collection was originally assembled by the late F. Nelson Blount and was located in several places in the northeast United States before moving from Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Scranton in 1984. Blount's death in an airplane accident in 1967 had cut off the main financial support for 'Steamtown USA', but much of his original dream to have a museum in a working railroad yard with excursions on steam trains and a functional locomotive shop has been realized at Steamtown NHS.

Museum and collection:

Steamtown NHS is located within a working railroad yard and incorporates the surviving elements of the DL&W Scranton roundhouse and locomotive repair shops. The new Visitor Center, Theater, Technology and History Museums are built in the style of and on the site of the missing portions of the original roundhouse, giving the impression of what the complete structure was like. (The 1902 roundhouse was originally a complete circle).

Visitors can see museum exhibits about the history and technology of steam railroads in the United States and Pennsylvania, as ...More...
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