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- Place Types Museum
- Address 1200 9th Ave, Altoona, PA 16602, USA
- Coordinate 40.5139259,-78.3994878
- Website https://www.railroadcity.org/
- Rating 4.6
- Compound Code GJ72+H6 Altoona, PA, USA
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Great venue for beer festivals and concerts. Plenty of onsite parking and generally well organized events. The museum is also definitely worth a visit when there isn't an event. There's a great collection of artifacts and first-hand accounts of the historic railroad industry in Altoona.
I remember going here on a school field trip and enjoying every second of it. Something about trains, these massive hunks of engineering just captures the imagination.
Very good museum experience, gives you a feel for the enormous size and the complex construction of locomotives and the railroad. The human effort and ingenuity invested in moving commerce over the mountains by rail is paid a fitting tribute. Bonus is admission gives you access to the observation area at the Horseshoe Curve, an awe inspiring spot to watch solutions come to life.
Incredibly well done interesting museum. Learned a lot definitely worth seeing. Tons of great displays.
I took my ten-year-old and my seven-year-old here. We started in Greensburg and road Amtrak in. That took us to the horseshoe curve and was absolutely amazing! The Amtrak station is right across the railroad tracks from the museum. The museum was better than expected in the staff was very helpful. It was clean and well put together.
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