Update – Steamtown Historical Collective

Sixty Years of Steamtown

January 1, 2023 — Happy New Year! And what a big year this is for the history of Steamtown — the sixtieth year since 1963; the inaugural year of Steamtown, U.S.A., and the very first time that an attraction with the Steamtown name opened. Over those subsequent six decades a long, rich, and complicated storyContinue reading “Sixty Years of Steamtown”

Media Upload

October 17, 2022 — Richard Conard of Wayland, Massachusetts has graciously loaned a series of 27 slides for scanning and uploading to the Media Gallery. These incredible slides were taken by him on August 19, 1967 during a trip to Steamtown, U.S.A, when he was 15 years old. The slides detail a trip on theContinue reading “Media Upload”

Archives Upload – Sale Documents for Rahway Valley 2-8-0 #15

September 9, 2022 — Richie King, President of the Tri-State Railway Historical Society, has graciously provided copies of communication regarding the sale of Rahway Valley RR No. 15 to F. Nelson Blount in 1956. Richie writes: “Recently, I was given a pile of Rahway Valley Railroad paperwork and among the many files was the completeContinue reading “Archives Upload – Sale Documents for Rahway Valley 2-8-0 #15”