Strasburg
June 2010
Photos by Peter Limper
| On my way to the NRHS convention in Scranton, PA, I spent part of a day (June 22) at the Strasburg Railroad. |
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| On this day Strasburg trains were being pulled by ex-Canadian National 2-6-0 #89 (Canadian Locomotive Company, 1910). |
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| The fireman on 89 strikes a classic pose. |  |
| The Strasburg operates a fleet of beautifully restored wooden passenger cars. |
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| In past visits to Strasburg I have stayed at the Red Caboose Motel (seen here from the train). Each caboose contains one or two bedrooms. |
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| At the end of the Strasburg line at Leaman Place (near Paradise PA), where the track parallels the Amtrak Philadelphia-Harrisburg main line, 89 runs around the train. |
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| The Strasburgs 4 1/2 mile line runs through rolling Pennsylvania Dutch farm country; many of the farmers are Amish. |
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| A view of the Strasburgs back lot from the returning train. |
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| The Strasburg, like many tourist railroad, hosts a Thomas the Tank Engine event. The Strasburgs Thomas is unusual in being a working steam engine, rebuilt from Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal #15 (Porter 1917). |
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| A fairly new addition at Strasburg is this amusement park 4-4-0 (Cagney Bros. 1920), which pulls passengers on a short stretch of track between two turntables. |
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| Across the street from the Strasburg station is the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, with a large collection of locomotives and other railroad equipment, most formerly belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad. |
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| A working replica of the John Bull, built for the 1939-40 New York Worlds Fair. |
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| A unique streamlined fireless cooker 0-8-0. |
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| Far from the Western line where she operated, Ex-V&T #20 Tahoe was built in Pennsylvania by Baldwin in 1875. |
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| Postscript: 21st Century steam on the water.
The 56 foot steamboat Sabino, last coal-fired wooden ship in the US, is seen on June 27, 2010, on a short cruise from near-by Mystic Seaport museum. Re-boilered in 1940, Sabino still uses her original (1908) two-cylinder compound steam engine. |
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