Steamtown National Historic Site - Moscow, PA Excursion (U.S. National Park Service)

A steam locomotive pulls dark green passenger cars past a brown wooden freight station at Moscow, PA.

NPS Photo

Canadian Pacific 2317, a passenger locomotive built in 1923, pulls a train past the 1904 freight station at Moscow, Pennsylvania. These excursions are offered on select weekends from July through October.

Steamtown National Historic Site offers seasonal excursions to Moscow, Pennsylvania, a small town on the western edge of the Pocono Plateau. This 26-mile round trip includes a 30-40 minute layover and takes about 2 hours. It follows Roaring Brook through the Nay Aug tunnel into the Pocono Mountains, across numerous bridges and through the historic and scenic Pennsylvania countryside. Light refreshments are available for purchase at the Moscow train station through the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railway Historical Society.

For 2010, Moscow excursions are offered on July 3, 10, 17, and 31; August 7, 14, 21; September 4 and 5, and October 2*, 9, 16 and 30.

All Moscow Excursions depart at 1:00 pm and return at approximately 3:00 pm. Reservations open April 12, 2010.

*There will be TWO trips on October 2 - The "My Little Pumpkin Express" departs at 11 am, returns at 1 pm. The "Fall Foliage" excursion departs at 2 pm, returns at 3:30 pm.