• An engineer inspects the running gear of a steam locomotive at Steamtown NHS

    Steamtown

    National Historic Site Pennsylvania

Alcohol Policy

All alcoholic beverages are prohibited at Steamtown National Historic Site and all trains operated by the National Park Service.

Did You Know?

Drawing of mechanical engineer Elijay McCoy, creator of the 'real McCoy' automatic lubricator.

Elijah J. McCoy, a brilliant African-American mechanical engineer, invented an automatic lubricator cup (or drip cup) for steam locomotives and other machines.  It worked so well that inspectors, when checking in a new piece of machinery, would ask, "Is it the real McCoy?" More...