Williamsport- The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will be hosting local author Tom Rich, who has recently produced and Railroaders: East and West, The History of Lines That Operated in Central Pennsylvania, on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 2pm. The lecture, held in the Community Room of the museum, is free and open to the public. The program is sponsored by Van Campen Motors.
Tom Rich is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University. The book is the first of 3 volumes to be published by the Union County Historical Society on railroads in Central PA,, focusing on the main railroad lines that ran east and west from Montandon to Tyrone, PA, along with the logging railroads, and narrow gauge lines from Winfield to New Berlin and White Deer to Loganton, PA.
As this is our Society Program, admission to the museum will be free. The third Sunday of each month, May through October, is free admission day. Located at 858 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society provides a history of the region with information about Native American culture, frontier exploration, the development of the Pennsylvania canal, immigration during the 19th century, and the logging and lumbering era of the 19th century. The Taber Museum also houses the world-class Larue Shempp Model Train Collection. For further information, please contact the museum at 570.326.3326.