On this site, the Pennsylvania Railroad built its depots, boarding platforms, and Adams Express Office. Three branches of the Tyrone Middle Division — the Bald Eagle Valley, the Tyrone and Clearfield, and the Lewisburg and Tyrone — had offices in the passenger terminal. The PRR was considered to be “a foster mother that nourished the town’s being.” 
    In 1947, more than fifty passenger trains passed through Tyrone each day. With the decrease in train business, the depot was demolished in 1968. Photographs of the railroad complex are now on exhibit at the Tyrone History Museum. 
    Located near the depot was the factory of the famous Wilson Chemical Company. The building was demolished in the 1970s when the Rt. 220 Bypass was built through eastern Tyrone. 
    This area now is the Tyrone Rail Park, which encompasses the Tyrone Railroad Station (Bud Shuster Intermodal Transportation Center), a gazebo, a PRR workers memorial stone, and two cabooses.

On May 30, 1921, the Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad dedicated a memorial stone at the railroad depot to honor its Tyrone servicemen who had served in World War I. After the war, the statue and plaque were moved to Soldiers Park. In 2003, Mr. and Mrs. William N. Duey, of Tyrone, donated a memorial plaque commemorating Tyrone railroad workers. Affixed to the original stone, the plaque contains an engraving of the old Tyrone railroad station as it appeared circa 1920.

The inscription on the plaque reads, “Dedicated in memory of P.R.R. workers from the Tyrone area.”

On display in the Tyrone Rail Park are two cabooses — a PRR-type caboose on the left, and a New York Central-type caboose on the right. No longer in service, a caboose was attached to the rear of a freight train for use by its train crew.

    The Tyrone History Museum, which opened in November 2002, is housed in the railroad station (850 Pennsylvania Ave.).