{"id":273974,"date":"2026-08-28T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273974\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:22:07","slug":"steamtowns-railfest-set-to-celebrate-major-anniversaries-labor-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273974\/","title":{"rendered":"Steamtown&#8217;s Railfest set to celebrate major anniversaries Labor Day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steamtown National Historic Site gears up for Railfest, celebrating its 40th anniversary and American railroading&#8217;s 200th.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Steamtown National Historic Site is coming off of a busy couple of weeks this summer as around 111,000 people stopped by to see Big Boy 4014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials hope to continue the park\u2019s big summer with next weekend\u2019s Railfest. The event is Labor Day weekend from 9am-5pm each day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Railfest celebrates railroading\u2019s past, present and future with train rides, special demonstrations, programs, visiting equipment, tours and more. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event honors Steamtown&#8217;s 40th anniversary of becoming a national park site, the 200th anniversary of the start of railroading in the U.S., and America&#8217;s 250th. Railfest is free with charges for some rides. There is even a free bus shuttle between Railfest and La Festa Italiana in downtown Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steamtown National Historic Site gears up for Railfest, celebrating its 40th anniversary and American railroading&#8217;s 200th. SCRANTON, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-273974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273974","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=273974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}