The rumors are true… Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 will be stopping at the Lake Shore Railway Museum! Union Pacific has scheduled a brief stop in front of the museum from 11:25am until 11:35am. Come see the locomotive as it passes through on its Eastern Leg of the Coast-to-Coast Tour! #4014 will be passing through […]
Tenth Locomotive added to Lake Shore Railway Museum’s “Locomotives that our parents and grandparents built collection.”
North East, PA. — A 1943 ex-military forty-five(45) ton “centercab” switcher locomotive becomes #10 in the “locomotives that our parents and grandparents built collection” of General Electric locomotives at Lake Shore Railway Museum. Built in 1943 as serial number 17851 and assigned to McChord Army Air Field (now McChord Air Force Base) south of Tacoma, […]
CSX Pride in Service to make a big show in northwestern Pennsylvania
Following in the 2017 footsteps of C&O “Chessie” locomotive #8272, the THREE recently christened “CSX Pride in Service” locomotives are scheduled to visit the hallowed erecting halls and grounds of Erie Wabtec/GE where they were built. They will then move to Lake Shore Railway Historical Museum in North East, PA, for public display on Saturday, […]
Lake Shore Railway Museum Will Now Be Open for Winter Hours
The Lake Shore Railway Museum is such a great place to visit if you’re a railfan. Locomotives and railcars on the museum grounds, railroad exhibits inside and our very popular gift shop, where you can get all sorts of railroad and train related books, magazines, t-shirts, caps, pins and postcards and a whole lot more. […]