The Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society (BHRS) is an all-volunteer historical society dedicated to promoting, preserving, and fostering a public appreciation of the

railroading Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

heritage of Bellefonte and

Centre County, Pennsylvania Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,172. Its county seat is Bellefonte. Centre County comprises the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The lands ...

. The Society is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation with no paid employees or administrators. The Society owns several historic pieces of rolling stock including two

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-1 rail diesel cars (BHRX 9153 and BHRX 9167), an NE class wooden caboose, originally built for the

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, a Russell snow plow, and four speeder cars. The caboose and snow plow are on static display in Talleyrand Park,

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Bellefonte is a borough in, and the county seat of, Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is approximately twelve miles northeast of State College and is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The bor ...

adjacent to the former Bellefonte Pennsylvania Railroad train station. The caboose and snowplow are currently on display, but being repaired. The Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society hosts two annual passenger excursion weekends, in October and December, in addition to special events involving operation of the speeder cars. The Society began overhaul of Budd RDC-1 BHRX 9167 in 2014. The Society hopes to resume excursion operations with this equipment in the near future. Volunteers also maintain the track structure and right-of-way on approximately 1 mile of Society owned track in and near the village of Lemont. The track is a portion of the historic Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad, a branch line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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* * https://www.facebook.com/Bellefonte-Historical-Railroad-Society-115667348475617/ Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society on facebook {{Mid-Atlantic U.S. historical societies Historical societies in Pennsylvania Rail transportation preservation in the United States