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Steamtown National Historic Site Wheel bearing service markings on a caboose. Repacked, Keyser Valley Shops (Scranton PA), September, 1952. NPS Photo, Ken Ganz
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Steamtown National Historic Site
Virtual Tour
 

Virtual Tour

 

Take a virtual tour of Steamtown NHS by clicking on the links below. Each takes you to a page featuring a 360-degree rotating photograph of a Steamtown location.

 

To rotate the picture, position your cursor on the photograph and left-click. Hold the left button down and move the mouse to rotate the photograph. You may also use the Shift key to zoom in and the Control key to zoom out.

The virtual tour requires QuickTime Multimedia Player. Download it free here.

 

(Note: The virtual tour is not compatible with Netscape 6.)

 
 
Steamtown offers many programs, walking tours, train rides and excursions. However, the tours cannot possibly show everything happening at the park. This virtual tour shows How a Steam Locomotive Tire is Changed (click to view MS Powerpoint (1,553k) or Adobe Acrobat (838k)). Other virtual tours will be added in the future.

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Drawing of African Elephant. Steamtown has a locomotive which weighs about as much as 85 African Elephants.

Did You Know?
The Union Pacific 'Big Boy' locomotive, one of 25 built to this design, weighs just under 600 tons - approximately as much as 83 adult male African elephants! It is on display at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Last Updated: July 12, 2011 at 10:50 MST