The story
The Railroaders Memorial Museum occupies the 1882 Master Mechanics Building at Altoona, Pennsylvania — the testing and administrative heart of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Works, once the largest railroad shop complex on earth, where thousands built and maintained the Pennsy's locomotives through the steam century; the museum honours those workers and their families, its exhibits and nearby Horseshoe Curve keeping railroad-town memory, and it honours their ghosts with equal civic pride: 'Frank', the museum's famous resident, is described by staff and visitors on the third floor — a figure in work clothes, footsteps, doors, and a presence the museum's own after-hours ghost tours introduce by name — alongside voices in the test-lab spaces, tools shifted and cold pockets, telling gathered where generations genuinely laboured and, in the works' hard history, sometimes died, remembered with respect. Identifications are museum tradition. Present the museum as workers' memorial first — the Altoona shops' story — with Frank its affectionately kept colleague. Museum hours and ghost-tour dates from official pages.