Steamtown is a newly built "interpretive" national park that features late 30s steam locomotives from Canada and the United States.

The East Broad Top is a private venture that features teens and twenties narrow guage locomotives hauling rolling stock some of which dates from the 1880s in their original venue. The entire railroad is preserved as it looked when it was closed down in 1956. Some parts haven't been touched since, others have been restored. The special value of the EBT is that it consists of original equipment in the original site with the original buildings and machinery. It is the only railroad in the country that is not a collection of odds and ends thrown together and that still operates on original trackage in it's original site.

If you go during the tourist season be sure to pay the extra fare to get a ride in either a caboose or the Orbisonia (the president's private car).

The best time to go is Columbus day weekend when everything that runs is out on the rails and the shops (with overhead shaft drive machinery) are open for tours. Rides on one cylinder belt driven 1900s speeders are available for a paltry sum and there is a night run on Saturday. There is also an excellent trolley museum that shares dual guage trackage with the EBT.