Steamtown National Historic Site

Last weekend we went to Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton. I was worried that there would be crowds of people, but apparently no one wants to go learn about trains on an overcast Saturday.

Sneaking up on a turkey

A couple of turkeys.

The museum part is set up in what used to be a functioning railroad maintenance something or other (to be precise). People can walk into preserved cars and imagine what it would've been like to ride a train 200 years ago. 

 

Although we didn't go on an old timey train ride, we took a shop tour for a "behind the scenes" glimpse of the maintenance and renovation of the trains at Steamtown. 

Not a workbench.

You said it, random filing cabinet.

Okay, so the shop tour was over an hour long and not interesting unless you are obsessed with trains. The volunteer leading the tour used to be a train mechanic, so he really knew his stuff AND he liked to ramble. 

After that, we wandered around the tracks of rusty old trains and took pictures.