{"id":279854,"date":"2026-09-05T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279854\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:08:18","slug":"railfest-kicks-off-in-scranton-celebrates-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279854\/","title":{"rendered":"Railfest kicks off in Scranton, celebrates history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Once again, crowds are flocking to the Steamtown National Historic Site. This time, for this year&#8217;s Railfest which is bringing people from near and far to engage in the area&#8217;s history. 28\/22&#8217;s Colby Hughes explained from the Electric City. A weekend to celebrate and learn about the history of railroading, and a chance to support the preservation of history, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening here at the Steamtown National Historic Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Once again, crowds are flocking to the Steamtown National Historic Site. This time,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[47957,201,178,180,179,9019],"class_list":["post-279854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-colby-hughes","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-steamtown-national-historic-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279854","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=279854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}