Steamtown National Historic Site - Steamtown's Operating Locomotives (U.S. National Park Service)

Steamtown operates three steam locomotives. When these machines were new, they spent about one quarter to one third of their operating life undergoing maintenance and repair work in a roundhouse or locomotive shop. These are old machines - built 1917, 1923 and 1929 - which means they are not always available.

Steamtown also operates one diesel-electric locomotive, built in 1958, and is restoring one steam locomotive back to operating condition.

Click on the links below to learn about each locomotive, as well as its current status (updated monthly).

Baldwin Locomotive Works 26 is a small (90 ton) switching locomtove with a graphite smokebox (front end) and a sloped tender at the back. It was photographed in the railroad yard with steam blowing out from its left front cylinder.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works 26 was built in 1929 and is used at Steamtown for short train rides in the railroad yard.

Baldwin Locomotive Works #26

Owners: Baldwin Locomotive Works, #26; Jackson Iron & Steel Company, #3

Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1929

Status: Undergoing a major rebuild in the Steamtown Locomotive Shop. It can be seen on a Locomotive Shop Tour.

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Canadian Pacific 2317 - black with yellow details and a gray front - pulls green passenger cars past trees in the background and gravel in the foreground.

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Canadian Pacific 2317 pulls a passenger train around a curve in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Canadian Pacific #2317

Owners: Canadian Pacific Railway, #2317

Builder: Montreal Locomotive Works, June, 1923

Status: Currently in-service, this locomotive is sharing operating duties with the "Scranton Limited" short train rides in the Steamtown yards.

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Candian National 3254 rolls out of Nay Aug tunnel pulling a dark green passenger car.

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Canadian National 3254 rolls out of Nay Aug tunnel in Scranton, PA. This short tunnel is used for long train rides from Scranton to Moscow, Tobyhanna, and East Stroudsburg.

Canadian National #3254

Owners: Canadian Government Railways, #2854; Canadian National Railways, #3254

Builder: Canadian Locomotive Company, Kingston Works Ontario, Canada, 1917

Status: Currently in yard service, preparing for the 2009 excursion operations. This locomotive is scheduled to power our first steam excursion to the Delaware Water Gap "Founders Day" event on June 27 (Sorry, trip is SOLD OUT!)

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Nickel Plate 514, a diesel-electric locomotive built in 1958, prepares to pull a train out of Scranton. The locomotive is black with yellow stripes.

NPS Photo, Ken Ganz

Nickel Plate 514 is an historic diesel-electric locomotive used on some excursions and short train rides inside the railroad yard.

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (the Nickel Plate Road) #514

Owners: New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad #514; Norfolk & Western Railway #2514; Norfolk Southern #2514

Builder: Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation, La Grange, IL, 1958

Status: Currently in-service, this locomotive is operating with the "Scranton Limited" short train rides in the Steamtown yards.

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The bare boiler of a steam locomotive sits on tracks embedded in concrete outside the Locomotive Shop. Two workers on the left plan the ongoing work on this engine.

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Boston & Maine 3713, a fast passenger locomotive built in 1934, is currently being restored to operating condition at Steamtown.

Boston & Maine Railroad #3713

Owners: Boston & Maine Railroad

Builder: Lima Locomotive Works, 1934

Status: Undergoing a major rebuild in the Steamtown Locomotive Shop. It can be seen on a Locomotive Shop Tour.

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