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Photo Tours
Steamtown
National
Historic
Site
is
a
railroad
museum
and
heritage
railroad
located
on
62.48
acres
in
downtown
Scranton,
Pennsylvania,
at
the
site
of
the
former
Scranton
yards
of
the
Delaware,
Lackawanna
and
Western
Railroad
(DL&W).
The
museum
is
built
around
a
working
turntable
and
a
roundhouse
that
are
largely
replications
of
the
original
DL&W
facilities;
the
roundhouse,
for
example,
was
reconstructed
from
remnants
of
a
1932
structure.
The
site
also
features
several
original
outbuildings
dated
between
1899
and
1902.
All
the
buildings
on
the
site
are
listed
with
the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places
as
part
of
the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Co. Site.
Turntable and Round House