Anyone like old trains?

[BubbaJr]

When I was a kid, there was a place in Bellows Falls, VT that had steam engines on display. Long gone now, I think they left 30 years ago.

Here's a little info about Steamtown.

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.

 

[shvl73]

Thanks for the info BubbaJr, I drive by Scranton a couple of times a year and will have to stop and check it out.