Railroaders Memorial Museum

  For over a hundred years locomotives and train cars were built and serviced in the Altoona and Juniata shops in Altoona Pennsylvania. The complex covered 218 acres and grew to 125 buildings which included a foundry, blacksmith shops, boiler shops, paint shops, a testing laboratory, and machine shops. For a while it was the largest railroad shop complex in the world where   150 locomotives were built every year and four were repaired each day. The Altoona shops closed in the 1970s but locomotives are still repaired at the Juniata shops.

   The only building left at the Altoona shop is the Master Mechanics Building which houses an excellent museum that covers railroad history and the lives of the people who worked in the shops and on the trains. The roundhouse has been partly reconstructed. It’s open to visitors and houses train cars that are being refurbished.

  The museum is accessible. The model train display is too high to be easily seen. A paved path leads to the roundhouse which is accessible.

   The parking lot has long bus/RV spaces. Museum  40.51333, -78.40008