WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM

GIBSONIA, PA

Roscoe & River The Cumer's newest family member — Roscoe & River Credit: t.shirbert

The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum is located in Gibsonia, PA and is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to preserving the history of railroading in Western Pennsylvania. The museum boasts an impressive collection of model trains, buildings, and scenery, which have been designed and built by members of the museum.

The museum has several train layouts, including a large HO scale layout that spans over 4,000 square feet. The layout features several different scenes depicting the various landscapes and industries of Western Pennsylvania, including coal mines, steel mills, and farms. Visitors can watch as the trains travel through the different landscapes and learn about the history of the area.

In addition to the train layouts, the museum also has a collection of vintage train-related artifacts, including lanterns, tools, and uniforms. Visitors can learn about the different jobs that were involved in the operation of trains and see how technology has changed over time.

The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum is open to the public on weekends and special events throughout the year. It is a great destination for families, train enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the history of Western Pennsylvania.

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in GIBSONIA PA. US MID #8404201181

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Mid-Atlantic (District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 65,028 from tax period 201206 (YYYYMM).

Joe Magarac, steel working Superjack Joe can bend steel bars at will.

The Croatian steelworkers around Pittsburgh gave rise to the tall tales of Joe Magarac. I read that <i>magarac</i> means donkey in Croatian. So there is satire in these Joe Magarac tales of how super Joe can work through bad steel working conditions.

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Cathedral of Learning and Amos Hall (nearside) View of the Cathedral of Learning from Amos Hall (4022 Fifth Avenue), Pittsburgh

Partial and edited quote from Wikipedia:

&quot;The Cathedral of Learning is a 42-story skyscraper that serves as the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's (Pitt) main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Standing at 535 feet (163 m), the 42-story Late Gothic Revival building is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere. It is also the second-tallest gothic-styled building in the world, after the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. The Cathedral of Learning was commissioned in 1921 and ground was broken in 1926 under general contractor Stone &amp; Webster. It is a Pittsburgh landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places.&quot;

Allegheny County Soldiers' Memorial, Pittsburgh

I had not known or planned to visit the Allegheny Co. Soldiers' Memorial, so it was an accidental discovery during my Pittsburgh trip. Unfortunately I was meeting Brandon soon and so did not go in. One day perhaps I'd go back?

Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh, 5th Avenue, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA Built in 1914-1915, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by Benno Janssen to serve as the Masonic Temple of Pittsburgh. The building features a limestone-clad exterior, a side-gable red terra cotta tile roof with acroterions, corinthian pilasters on the upper floors, decorative medallions, roman lattice motifs on the top floor, cornices with dentils, one-over-one windows, decorative reliefs, recessed entrance bays with decorative trim surrounds, and decorative lamppost light fixtures flanking the main entrance bays. The building is a contributing structure in the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building today serves as an office building and alumni center for the University of Pittsburgh, known as Alumni Hall.

The Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 5th Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA Built in 1926-1934, this Gothic Revival-style tower was designed by Charles Klauder to serve as an administration building and classroom building for the University of Pittsburgh. The building stands 42 stories and 535 feet (163 meters) tall, being the second-tallest university building in the world, only exceeded by the newer Moscow State University Main Building in Russia, and was the second-tallest building in Pittsburgh at the time of its completion, though it lost this status in 1970. The building is clad in limestone with a massing that tapers towards the top and center with multiple setbacks, a four-story podium at the base with bay windows and tall recessed gothic arched entrance bays, buttresses and tracery on the exterior facade, pinnacles and a parapet with multiple gothic arches at the top of the building, a theater to the southeast of the main building with similar exterior features but a much lower height, known as the Stephen Foster Memorial, and a series of themed classrooms with various decorative finishes inside the building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and is a contributing structure in the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building today remains the principal structure of the University of Pittsburgh campus, dominating the surrounding Oakland neighborhood, and standing in the middle of a large lawn with trees and smaller buildings at the edges.

Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Avenue, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA Built in 1933-1938, this Gothic Revival-style chapel was designed by Charles Klauder to serve as a chapel for the University of Pittsburgh, and a memorial to Anna Margaretha Heinz, with funds for the chapel’s construction being donated by John Heinz upon his death in 1919. The building features a French Gothic-inspired exterior with a metal spire, gabled and hipped slate roof, limestone cladding, buttresses, a polygonal nave and apse flanking a central gabled wing, a recessed gothic arched main entrance portal with decorative reliefs and carved wooden doors, gothic arched stained glass windows with decorative tracery, pinnacles and tracery on the parapets, and low aisles flanking the main nave. Inside, the chapel features decorative woodwork, a soaring gothic vaulted ceiling, stone staircases, stained glass windows, large pendant lights, spiral staircases, a narthex with a wooden screen wall at the entrance to the sanctuary, and an ornate wooden altar. The building is a contributing structure in the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Contact WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM
5507 LAKESIDE DR
GIBSONIA
PA
15044-9257

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MID #	8404201181
Name	WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM
Alternate Name
Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Mid-Atlantic
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	251503628
NTEECC	A82
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201206
INCOME	94,458
REVENUE	65,028
LAT/LONG	40.636836, -79.976421
CODES	FIPS State Code: 42 FIPS County Code: 003 US Census Tract: 408001 US Census Block: 2063