About the Chapter ...
The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railway Historical Society, Inc. was named for the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad. a high speed, electrified third rail line between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. The Chapter is interested in the preservation of all aspects of railroading, both past and present. It is an affiliated Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, one of 160 chapters throughout the United States.
Local Chapters engage in activities from showing slides and movies to owning and operating historic rail equipment and museums. The Wyoming and Lackawanna Valley Chapter and its members are particularly interested in the history and operations of railroads that served Northeastern Pennsylvania : the Lackawanna, the Erie, the Delaware and Hudson, the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, the New York Ontario and Western, the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern and the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley.
Today members carefully follow the activities of out present railroads: Canadian Pacific's Delaware and Hudson subsidiary, the Reading and Northern , and the shortlines Delaware Lackawanna and the Luzerne and Susquehanna.
The Chapter also follows carefully the activities of the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton and the Electric City Trolley Musuem Many of our members work as volunteers or employees at both museums.
Our Chapter received its charter in 1973. The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Chapter became the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railway Historical Society in 1987, a non-profit corporation under the laws of Pennsylvania. We have over 250 members throughout the United States, although nearly two-thirds live within one hundred miles of the Scranton Wilkes-Barre area.
Any person eighteen years or older is eligible for membership in the Chapter.
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