Here’s a listing as a followup to the photo essay in the March/April 2023 issue.

TRAIN EXCURSIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA:

Passenger (tourist, not commuter) Railroads in Pennsylvania, check websites, railroads and operating schedule to confirm motive power. Railroads sometimes have to make changes at the last minute for safety, etc.

**Indicates that they have a working steam locomotive in use on their railroad, although not every excursion may use that locomotive for its power.

Here’s a dated map of the railroads in Pennsylvania (it’s not current, but an interesting visual of the rails that cover the state):

  1. Allentown & Auburn Railroad, Kutztown
  2. Bellefonte Historical Railroad, Bellefonte
  3. Colebrookdale Railroad, Boyertown
  4. **East Broad Top Railroad, Rockhill Furnace
  5. **Everett Railroad, Hollidaysburg
  6. **Harrisburg, Lincoln and Lancaster, Elizabethtown
  7. Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway, Jim Thorpe
  8. Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad, Middletown
  9. **New Hope Railroad, New Hope
  10. Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad, Titusville
  11. **Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train, Ashland
  12. **Pennsylvania Live Steamers, Collegeville (a private club, membership required for participation/viewing)
  13. **Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad—Passenger, Reading
  14. **Rough and Tumble Historical Engineers Assoc., Kinzers (Shay steam train [and little steam train] on grounds)
  15. Northern Central Railway of York, New Freedom
  16. **Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton
  17. Stourbridge Line, Honesdale
  18. **Strasburg Rail Road, Strasburg
  19. Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern Railroad, Kempton
  20. **Williams Grove Railroad, Mechanicsburg (rare PRR engine on grounds of historical association)

TROLLEY RIDES / MUSEUMS IN PENNSYLVANIA:

  1. Electric City Trolley Museum, Scranton (the Pennsylvania Garden Railway Society has met here for their winter meets) .
  2. Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington
  3. Rockhill Trolley Museum, Rockhill Furnace
  4. SEPTA Transit Museum and Gift Shop, Philadelphia

INCLINED PLANES

TRAIN-RELATED ATTRACTIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA:

Altoona area, Blair County:

Catawissa

Derry, Westmoreland County

Hamburg

Harrisburg

North East, Erie County

Strasburg area, Lancaster County

Airville, York County

Greenville, Mercer County

NOTEABLE RAILROAD BRIDGES