Join Us On Our 50th Anniversary!

We’re golden! Come join us on Tuesday, April 22 as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania celebrates 50 years to the day that our world-class museum of railroad history first opened to the public in 1975.

We’ll have brief remarks by guest dignitaries, a new exhibit, “Tracking Our History: 50 Years of the Railroad Museum In Pictures,” a new tour, “Building a Museum in 50 Years” and music by the Lampeter-Strasburg High School band, whose predecessors performed at the Museum on opening day 50 years ago.

Various pieces of railroad equipment will be open in the afternoon and the Museum telegrapher will be located in Steinman Station. Also on hand will be Museum educators at the victory garden, the Heirloom Seed Project, Catcher, the Museum’s mascot, a scavenger hunt for kids, a work-in-progress HO scale model of the Museum and train yard, Bachmann Trains and two food vendors for your convenience.

Learn more about our 50th anniversary inaugural day. We’ll see you there!

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is home to a world-class collection of about 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars, a vast research library and archives, a working restoration shop, an immersive education center and programs, a Museum store and special events and exhibits.

A Smithsonian Affiliate, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is one of 24 historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission as part of the Pennsylvania Trails of History®, with the active support of the nonprofit

Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

300 Gap Road, PA Route 741, P. O. Box 125

Strasburg, Lancaster County, PA 17579

RRMuseumPA.org • (717) 687-8628