The Steamtown National Museum is in downtown Scranton, PA. It covers several acres and includes a museum and a working railyard as well as a graveyard for old train cars and engines. The Museum included a large numbers of historical exhibits, including an executive's Pullman car--very luxurious for the time--and a mail sorting car.
The first picture shows a steam engine being parked in the train shed. We watched this engine pulling into the yard and unhooking two Pullman coaches. Then it was backed into the roundhouse where the engine was rotated to the position you see in the picture so it could be moved into the shed for storage.
The extra large engine shown was one of the largest rail locomotives ever built. It weighs well over a million pounds and was used to move troops and freight at one time.
For contrast, the little engine pictured is one of the smallest rail steam locomotives used. It was used for switching in a rail yard and could basically only move a few cars at a time.
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