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unusual facts about Steamtown


Steamtown, Peterborough Railway Preservation Society Inc.

Track was left over Pekina Creek, Black Rock Yard, Black Rock Bridge, Walloway Yard to Walloway Creek and in the yard of Orroroo.


Age of Steam Roundhouse

It was one of three of this type of locomotive that was operational at Steamtown, USA when it was in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Brooks-Scanlon Corporation 1

It was moved to Walpole, New Hampshire and then, across the Connecticut River, to Bellows Falls, Vermont and displayed at Steamtown, USA, where it stayed until the Blount collection was relocated to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246 was one of three 1200-series Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives in the Steamtown, USA collection.

Commonwealth Railways NC class

Australian National approached Steamtown to gauge availability of a number of tanker wagons that had been collected in Peterborough.

F. Nelson Blount

The Steamtown Foundation declared bankruptcy in the mid-1980s and was acquired by the National Park Service.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 5407

Dr Peter Beet, the co-founder of Steamtown, Carnforth with Sir Bill McAlpine, and business partner David Davis, visited Lostock Hall MPD to choose a locomotive to save, selecting No.45407.

PRR 1361

It was to be restored through a partnership between Steamtown, the University of Scranton and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona.

Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet

After the efforts of Dr Peter Beet to preserve Carnforth LMS 10(A) shed, McAlpine bought shares in 1970, and then took the controlling interest from 1974 until 1987 in the visitor attraction that became Steamtown.

Union Pacific 737

In 1989, the Steamtown Foundation donated the remaining railroad collection, including UP 737, to the National Park Service.


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