Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania houses a world-class collection of artifacts, photographs and archival materials representing the extensive and significant history of railroading in Pennsylvania. Their collections range from massive steam locomotives to delicate pieces of dining car china, heavy track tools to fine art, lanterns and marker lights to station signs.

A reference library is home a wide range of books, periodicals, railroad association and union publications, government documents and trade catalogues.

The library and archival collections are searchable online together through a site built from our Andornot Discovery Interface and hosted by Andornot.

Anyone interested in Pennsylvania history and railroad history in particular may search by keyword, then narrow their results by aspects of the collection, such as material type, decade, subject, railroad name and other facets such as these.

Features of the search engine such as spelling corrections, search suggestions and relevancy-ranked results also help connect a user with a resource quickly and accurately, and help to account for the many different spellings of railroad names that are found in the database.

At the museum, staff and volunteers use Inmagic DB/TextWorks to manage these databases.