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    4.7 (3 reviews)

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    Salamanca Rail Museum - used in the interlocking station at Olean, NY

    Salamanca Rail Museum

    4.8(9 reviews)
    21.9 mi

    a great museum full of history. a wonderful place in this sleepy little town. its a shame someone…read moreburned down the Erie railroad depot that is history that cannot be replaced. also i heard kids burned down the B&O depot? its a shame children destroy our history because of poor parenting.

    This place was so cool! I've always passed by it on the way to the antique mall in Salamanca, but…read moreonly recently made it a point to stop in during our weekend getaway! The museum is small, but absolutely rich with history. It was a Passenger Depot for the Buffalo, Rochester, & Pittsburgh Railway in the early 1900's. The inside of the museum still retains the look of a train station in that day, with most of the rooms still in tact! You can see where luggage was processed, where passengers would have bought tickets, and even sit and wait for trains! There are plenty of train-related relics and memorabilia that fills cases in the museum, decorates the walls, etc. There is a huge model train display in the center of the room, but it was under maintenance when we visited. What adds to the experience here is the train cars you can explore here! I've never been inside of an old train car before, and this place has several you can walk through. Some of them have old cots from where passengers would sleep, ovens and 'kitchens', closets, even toilets. It's super cool to be able to see how people would travel back in the day! I definitely recommend visiting this museum at least once, even if you're not that in to trains. But if you are, this is definitely the spot for you!

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    Salamanca Rail Museum - The gorgeous caboose behind the museum!

    The gorgeous caboose behind the museum!

    Salamanca Rail Museum - Capitol B & O red globe

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    Capitol B & O red globe

    Zippo/Case Museum & Flagship Store - Flag made out of lighters.

    Zippo/Case Museum & Flagship Store

    4.5(43 reviews)
    13.6 mi

    It had been a while since I last visited the Zippo/Case Museum, but while camping in Allegany State…read morePark for about five days around New Years, we decided to venture south to Bradford for a little New Year's Eve field trip and I'm glad we did! Yes, they closed early because it was New Year's Eve but it was still worth the stop. One of my favorite things about this place is that the museum is free (no ticket required!) which makes it very accessible. The gift shop is also a great size, with tons of Zippo, Case, and regional memorabilia. For example, I left with a Buffalo Bills Zippo! The employees were fine though they were not especially warm or chatty. Luckily the products and history speak for itself. Seeing the evolution of Zippo lighters and learning about the company's roots in Bradford never gets old. So, if you're anywhere near northern Pennsylvania or Western New York, this is a fun, quirky, and surprisingly fascinating stop that's definitely worth checking out!

    The usual museum "enter/exit through the gift shop" is expanded here: The larger part of the…read moredisplays are geared towards the history of smoking with Zippo lighters since 1932. Although the local production of 72,000 lighters a day does make it an economic powerhouse, on my visit there was a local troop of boy scouts. Cringe! At the cashier desk they'll sell you a lighter, "It includes everything but the fluid". Admission is free; dogs are welcome; there's a five minute film on loop about the history of Zippo lighters and the Case knife companies.

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    Zippo/Case Museum & Flagship Store
    Zippo/Case Museum & Flagship Store

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    The Little Museum - The second room on the tour.

    The Little Museum

    5.0(3 reviews)
    44.7 mi

    It has been a while since I have visited The Little Museum so a few weeks ago I decided to stop…read moreback down and take a tour. I hear grumbles all the time from people all the time that aren't native to the area that there is nothing to do around the area. No brain food or nothing culturally important. I find it strange that the back bone of our nation, the little industrial towns that helped build this country are so often forgotten. The Little Museum has a wealth of information about Cameron County's little slice of Americana. The Little Museum can be a easy to miss if you are driving down 120, but if you are looking it should be easy enough to find. The museum itself is an old school house painted a stereotypical white. After parking I was greeted by one of the Museum's Guides who was quick to welcome me and offered to guide me through the exhibits. Admission appeared to be free, but I placed a $5 bill in a large glass jar with a donations sign on it anyway. The Museum consists of 3 main rooms all of which are nearly packed with old artifacts of the of the area. The first room on the tour mainly deals with work and industry. Everything from the factory worker to the farmer is covered in the well persevered products and tools of their trades. The second room is mostly about the daily home life of the people from the 1800s up to the mid 1900s. Everything from school desks to a curling iron that would cause half the people working at the under writer laboratories to have a panic attack. You can look at some of the objects for quite a while and have no idea what it is until the tour guide explains what it is and why it was so important. This room also contains posters and a bit of information about the Western movie star Tom Mix, who was born nearby. The last room is a Military room. It was much darker than the rest of the museum and as you step into the room you know this room is different. Pictures, models, medals, and weapons of war fill the walls and display cases. Like most little towns Emporium and its satellite towns they are very proud of those who served. The collection was very well preserved and maintained in a dignified manner. After the tour was over I brought up my phone and tried to check into The Little Museum on yelp and noticed there was no information on it. After talking with the people at the museum they agreed to let me take a few pictures (not normally allowed) so I could let the world know that such an amazing chunk of history existed out in the middle of no where. Staffed and maintained by volunteers and sustained by donations there is no place I have ever visited like The Little Museum. When I walked out of those old school house doors I wanted to world to know that it was here, it has been for a long time, and hopefully always will be to help preserve and protect the history of Pennsylvania.

    Absolutely love, I've been here a dozen times and can't wait to visit again! So much to see!read more

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    The Little Museum - One of the displays in the military room.

    One of the displays in the military room.

    The Little Museum - Front of the Museum.

    Front of the Museum.

    The Little Museum - A model the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is partially made from flag stone mined from the area.

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    A model the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is partially made from flag stone mined from the area.

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