{"id":208903,"date":"2026-06-02T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:19:07","slug":"patriotic-engine-1776-rolls-out-after-refurbishment-in-scranton-poconos-and-coal-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208903\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic \u2018Engine 1776\u2019 rolls out after refurbishment in Scranton | Poconos and Coal Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POCONO MOUNTAINS, Pa. &#8211; If you&#8217;re driving through the Poconos in the coming months and come to a set of train tracks, you might see quite the patriotic train engine.<\/p>\n<p>A diesel engine in need of a refurbishment got a new paint job too.<\/p>\n<p>It rolled out of the workshop in Scranton in Lackawanna County Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now called Engine 1776.<\/p>\n<p>The engine is part of the Genesee Valley Transportation Company and the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>After two months, it&#8217;s on the tracks again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POCONO MOUNTAINS, Pa. &#8211; If you&#8217;re driving through the Poconos in the coming months and come to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4000,90259,91757,91758,91759,8885,91760,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-208903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-america-250","tag-delaware-lackawanna-railroad","tag-engine-1776","tag-genesee-valley-transportation-company","tag-patriotic-train","tag-pocono-mountains","tag-restored-locomotive","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}