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'''Steamtown National Historic Site''' is a historic site in [[Scranton]], [[Pennsylvania]], administered by the [[National Park Service]].  It is located on the grounds of the former [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]] yards in downtown Scranton.  Steamtown is a re-creation of an old [[steam locomotive]] yard and includes a working [[roundhouse]] and a [[railroad]] [[museum]].  Located immediately adjacent to Steamtown is a [[shopping mall]], and a museum devoted to the history of the [[trolley]] car, of which Scranton was the first city in the United States to have an electrified trolley. Steamtown and the mall form the nucleus of the revitalization of downtown Scranton.