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Steamtown National Historic Site CP 2317 flies the American Flag. NPS Photo, Ken Ganz
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Steamtown National Historic Site
Changing Faces: Steam to Diesel Transition Tour
Changing Faces: Steam to Diesel Transition Walking Tour

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Changing Faces: Steam to Diesel Transition Walking Tour

Join a Park Ranger on a 60-minute walking tour that will focus on the steam-to-diesel locomotive transition period (1939 to 1955) and how it affected the railroads and railroad workers. The program will take place, weather permitting, in the rail yard; in the event of inclement weather, the tour will take place in the Technology Museum.

Departs from the Visitor Center. Included in the Park Entrance Fee. Possible heat or cold and noise warning.

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Santa Anna, an invester in an early railroad in Pennsylvania.

Did You Know?
Mexican President General Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna owned stock in the Lackawanna Railroad, chartered in 1854 with plans to operate between Jessup and Nay Aug PA. Part of the route became a branch line of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Learn more about railroads at Steamtown NHS.
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