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70-1101: The Strasburg Rail Road ( reporting mark SRC ) is a heritage railroad and the oldest continuously operating standard-gauge railroad in the western hemisphere, as well as the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . Chartered in 1832, the Strasburg Rail Road Company is today a heritage railroad offering excursion trains hauled by steam locomotives on 4.02 mi (6.47 km) of track in Pennsylvania Dutch Country , as well as providing contract railroad mechanical services, and freight service to area shippers. The railroad's headquarters are outside Strasburg, Pennsylvania . Strasburg has five operational steam locomotives on its roster, as well as several others in various stages of restoration. As of 2022, Canadian National No. 89 , Norfolk & Western No. 475 and Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal No. 15 (rebuilt as Thomas

140-695: A 2-digit code indicating the vehicle's register country . The registered keeper of a vehicle is now indicated by a separate Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM), usually the name of the owning company or an abbreviation thereof, which must be registered with the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and which is unique throughout Europe and parts of Asia and Northern Africa. The VKM must be between two and five letters in length and can use any of

210-647: A Prudential Insurance commercial in Harrisburg Train Station. They have both remained on static display since being removed from service. SRC No. 4 is a camelback-type locomotive originally built as Reading Railroad A4b No. 1187 by The Baldwin Locomotive Works. The locomotive has the distinction of being the only SRC locomotive to arrive under its own power, doing so in 1962 from E&G Brooke Iron Company of Birdsboro, PA. It had inadequate strength for SRC's heavy trains. As such, it ran as

280-650: A canal. Because the new railroad would bypass Strasburg and cause Strasburg to lose its livelihood, a group of businessmen petitioned the state government for the right to build their own railroad to connect Strasburg to the Philadelphia and Columbia. A charter was issued by the Pennsylvania Legislature with the signature of Governor George Wolf on June 9, 1832 to " incorporate the Strasburg rail road [ sic ]". Although

350-582: A complete restoration. After six years of restoration work, the railcar re-entered passenger service in 1997 and has continued operating since then. No. 8618 originally operated for the New York Central Railroad until being acquired by the Strasburg Rail Road in 2009. The engine is used mainly for freight services but also can step in to haul excursion trains from time to time. The engine occasionally had been re-themed into

420-464: A hyphen. Some examples: When a vehicle is sold it will not normally be transferred to another register. The Czech railways bought large numbers of coaches from ÖBB. The number remained the same but the VKM changed from A-ÖBB to A-ČD. The UIC introduced a uniform numbering system for their members based on a 12-digit number, largely known as UIC number . The third and fourth digit of the number indicated

490-548: A part of their boilers , thus the engines were taken out of service. The railroad stated they could have done the repairs but the lessor, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, wanted to preserve the historical fabric of each locomotive and did not renew their leases the following year. No. 1223's last day of service for SRC was Thursday, October 26, 1989, while No. 7002's was earlier that year in January right after filming

560-700: A predecessor of the CNW, from which the UP inherited it. Similarly, during the breakup of Conrail , the long-retired marks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and New York Central Railroad (NYC) were temporarily brought back and applied to much of Conrail's fleet to signify which cars and locomotives were to go to CSX (all cars labeled NYC) and which to Norfolk Southern (all cars labeled PRR). Some of these cars still retain their temporary NYC marks. Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on

630-654: A rebuild or, under a lease agreement: B&O Tom Thumb Replica visited once for a rebuild, owned by B&O Railroad Museum . B&O 25 William Mason visited for a rebuild to prepare for an appearance in Wild, Wild West , owned by B&O Railroad Museum . N&W 611 visited in 2019 for the N&;W Reunion of Steam event, visited again in 2021 and 2022, owned by the Virginia Museum of Transportation . It ran its last excursions in late May 2023 and returned to

700-518: A restoration lasting 2 years and then was returned to operating condition on November 4, 1993. No. 475 would occasionally be refitted to resemble its sister locomotive No. 382 for Virginia Creeper photo charter events hosted by Lerro Productions on various occasions. Additionally, for the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad No. 475 and three passenger cars (only two of which wound up being used) were re-lettered "Indian Valley". "Thomas"

770-590: A switcher during the summer months from 1963 to 1967. After a loan to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania , it long sat dismantled pending long-term future restoration. It was acquired by the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio during a July 15, 2020 auction and left the Strasburg yard on July 31, 2020. Overhauled between 2010 and 2016 Locomotives that visited Strasburg either for events, to undergo

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840-689: A time, operating it until it was no longer economically viable and then purchasing a replacement locomotive. The Strasburg Rail Road and its locomotives have appeared in a number of films and television series, including Hello, Dolly! , Wild Wild West , Thomas and the Magic Railroad , The Gilded Age , Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood , The Men Who Built America and I Heard the Bells . 39°58′59.3″N 76°9′35.5″W  /  39.983139°N 76.159861°W  / 39.983139; -76.159861 Reporting mark In North America ,

910-471: Is Harrisburg . The elected officers are: In Pennsylvania the term for all elected members of the executive branch is four years, with a maximum of two terms. All members of the executive branch are not on the ballot in the same year: elections for governor and lieutenant governor are held in even years when there is not a presidential election, while the other three statewide offices are elected in presidential election years. The Governor's Cabinet comprises

980-626: Is actually Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal No. 15, built in March 1917 by the H.K. Porter Company. The locomotive was sold to the SRC by Keith Brigode from the Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway in March 1998 and rebuilt to resemble the character, Thomas the Tank Engine for the SRC's annual Day Out With Thomas events. In April 2014, Thomas's face was replaced with the animatronic CGI face with

1050-484: Is currently sitting in storage awaiting to enter service. Both No. 1223 and No. 7002 were leased for operation. No. 1223 was leased from the PRR from 1965 to 1968, from Penn Central from 1968 to 1979 and from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1989. No. 7002 was also leased from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. After ultrasonic testing both engines were found to have thin spots in their fireboxes, which are

1120-450: Is in operation. No. 3 is a 15 in ( 381 mm ) gauge miniature type steam locomotive that may have originally operated at Coney Island , New York, it was acquired by the Strasburg Rail Road in 2003 and has remained in active service ever since. No. 9 is another 15 in gauge miniature type steam locomotive that also may have operated at Coney Island. It was acquired by the Strasburg Rail Road in 2012 to operate along with No. 3. It

1190-631: Is included in one of the state's 67 counties and each county is then divided into one of the state's 2,562 municipalities . There are no independent cities or unincorporated territory within Pennsylvania. Local municipalities are either governed by statutes enacted by the Pennsylvania Legislature and administered through the Pennsylvania Code , by a home rule charter or optional form of government adopted by

1260-595: Is one of the few railroads in the U.S. sometimes using steam locomotives to haul revenue freight trains. The nearby Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania occasionally uses Strasburg Rail Road tracks to connect to the Amtrak Philadelphia-to-Harrisburg Main Line junction in Paradise, Pennsylvania . Strasburg Rail Road is a shortline railroad that connects the town of Strasburg with Amtrak's Keystone Corridor mainline. The line

1330-578: Is used for excursion trains, which carry passengers on a 45-minute round-trip journey from East Strasburg to Leaman Place Junction through nearly 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) in southeastern Lancaster County. A percentage of each train ticket's revenue is contributed to the Lancaster Farmland Trust. The railroad operates the United States' only operational wooden dining car on which visitors may dine while riding. Attractions at

1400-673: The Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes . Members of the Senate and the House cannot hold a position in any civic office, and both the houses may expel a member with two-thirds vote. Any member who is expelled for corruption may never run again for reelection in either portion of the legislature. Pennsylvania is divided into 60 judicial districts, most of which (except Philadelphia ) have magisterial district judges (formerly called district justices and justices of

1470-659: The Canadian National Railway . It was the first steam locomotive to be purchased by the Strasburg Rail Road, in June 1959. It arrived on the property in June 1960 and was placed into service on September 1, 1960, pulling the railroad's first tourist train. It was the first steam locomotive to return to service in the United States. In 2009, it was taken out of service to undergo an extensive Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 1,472-day inspection and overhaul, which remains in progress. No. 90 originally operated on

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1540-691: The Great Western Railway (Colorado) scheme in a 2013 charter. As of January 2024, No. 90 is currently undergoing its FRA 1,472-day inspection and overhaul and is expected to return to service again in the fall. No. 89 operated for the Green Mountain Railroad in conjunction with Steamtown, U.S.A. It was purchased by the Strasburg Rail Road, but while enroute to Strasburg in June 1972 it was in Penn Central 's Buttonwood , Pennsylvania yard when Hurricane Agnes flooded

1610-475: The Great Western Railway of Colorado to the company's towering mill in Loveland, Colorado where it hauled sugar beet trains. It was purchased by the Strasburg Rail Road on April 5, 1967 for $ 23,000.00 and arrived on the property on May 5, 1967. Upon arrival, No. 90 would make its first run for Strasburg on May 13, 1967. The engine is occasionally repainted into various paint schemes for photo charters, such as

1680-718: The Senate with 50 members. The Speaker of the House of Representatives or their designated speaker pro tempore holds sessions of the House. The President of the Senate is the Lieutenant Governor, who has no vote except in the event of tie in the Senate, where the vote is 25-25. The legislature meets in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. Its session laws are published in the official Laws of Pennsylvania , which are codified in

1750-554: The Susquehanna Canal opened, the majority of goods were directed through Baltimore, Maryland , rather than Philadelphia . The small amount of goods that were destined for Philadelphia traveled via a wagon road through Strasburg. Philadelphia attempted to reclaim its position as a major port city by constructing the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad in 1831. A railroad was easier and more cost effective to build than

1820-502: The Susquehanna River . The floodwaters entered the locomotive's stack, delaying its debut at Strasburg. Upon arriving on the property it underwent a complete overhaul, which lasted for a year. It wouldn't be until March 17, 1973 in the following year that No. 89 made its first official run on Strasburg Rail Road. When No. 89 first arrived, it was placed on the rails facing east (towards Leaman Place), as opposed to facing west as

1890-817: The chief justice is determined by seniority. In total, 439 judges preside over the Court of Common Pleas , 9 judges preside over the Commonwealth Court , 15 judges preside over the Superior Court , and 7 justices preside over the Supreme Court. Elected judges run in 10 year terms, at which point they are required to run in a non-partisan retention election if they wish to continue to serve. Local government in Pennsylvania consists of five types of local governments: county , township , borough , city , and school district . All of Pennsylvania

1960-513: The 26 letters of the Latin alphabet . Diacritical marks may also be used, but they are ignored in data processing (for example, Ö is treated as though it is O ). The VKM is preceded by the code for the country (according to the alphabetical coding system described in Appendix 4 to the 1949 convention and Article 45(4) of the 1968 convention on road traffic), where the vehicle is registered and

2030-514: The Courts of Common Pleas not expressly designated to the Commonwealth Court or Supreme Court of Pennsylvania . It also has original jurisdiction to review warrants for wiretap surveillance. The Commonwealth Court is limited to appeals from final orders of certain state agencies and certain designated cases from the Courts of Common Pleas. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the final appellate court. All judges in Pennsylvania are elected;

2100-655: The Day Out with Thomas events. No. 10 originally operated for the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway until the line closed in 1918. In 1919, it was sold to the Grasse River Railroad in New York where it continued service until 1960. That same year it was sold to Winston Gottschalk of the Strasburg Rail Road and arrived on the property two years later in 1962. In 1991, it entered the Strasburg shops for

2170-573: The House. The commission provides assistance to Members of the General Assembly on researching local issues. Unlike other states, Pennsylvania does not use county sheriff's offices to patrol areas without local police. Some municipalities elect to create or co-create local police departments, particularly to get better response times, have specific patrols of areas, and/or to enforce local ordinances. Others choose to only have part-time departments, with Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) filling

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2240-599: The Metrolink system—even though it is operated by Amtrak. This is why the reporting mark for CSX Transportation , which is an operating railroad, is CSXT instead of CSX. Private (non-common carrier) freight car owners in Mexico were issued, up until around 1990, reporting marks ending in two X's, possibly to signify that their cars followed different regulations (such as bans on friction bearing trucks) than their American counterparts and so their viability for interchange service

2310-716: The Plymouth locomotive by inspectors from the Interstate Commerce Commission . Upon the death of Bryson Homsher, the Homsher estate filed for abandonment with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission . Learning of the potential abandonment, an effort to purchase and save the railroad was organized by railfans from Lancaster Henry K. Long and Donald E. L. Hallock. They organized a small non-profit group to purchase

2380-584: The Strasburg Rail Road and the shops were sold. The railroad was sold again in 1888 to Edward Musselman, with the Musselman family retaining control of it until 1918 when it was purchased by State Senator John Homsher. By this time, the number of passengers had dropped off because tracks for the Conestoga Traction Company 's streetcars had reached Strasburg in 1908, offering a more direct route between Lancaster and Strasburg. In 1926,

2450-484: The Strasburg Rail Road ever since it was built in 1926. The engine is notable for being used to reconstruct the track and rails for the railroad between 1958 and 1959 after the railroad was purchased to become a tourist line. No. 2 was acquired by the Strasburg Rail Road in 1984. It is occasionally used to move heavy equipment around the railyard. The engine would occasionally be re-themed to the Thomas character "Rusty" for

2520-427: The Strasburg Rail Road purchased a 20- short-ton (17.9- long-ton ; 18.1  t ), gasoline-powered, Plymouth switcher locomotive — the only locomotive that was ever built specifically for the Strasburg Rail Road. By 1958, the railroad fell on hard times from the cumulative effect of years of declining freight business and infrequent runs, damage caused by Hurricane Hazel , and lack of approval for operation of

2590-479: The Strasburg Rail Road shops for federally mandated rebuilds since 2010. C&O 614 was sold by Ross Rowland to RJD America, LLC in November 2024 with the goal to move the locomotive to the Strasburg Rail Road shops to undergo restoration to operating condition starting in early 2025. Strasburg rostered at least six steam locomotives prior to 1958. Evidence suggests that Strasburg only rostered one locomotive at

2660-462: The Tank Engine ) are all in active service, while Canadian National No. 7312 is currently undergoing restoration back to operation and Great Western No. 90 is undergoing its FRA inspection and overhaul as of January 2024. The other steam locomotive is a 15” Gauge 4-4-0 built by Cagney in the early 1900s. They also have the nation's largest operating fleet of historic wooden passenger coaches. It hosts 300,000 visitors per year. The Strasburg Rail Road

2730-421: The Thomas character "Mavis" for the Day Out with Thomas events. No. 1235 is an ex-ATSF SSB-1200, rebuilt from a 1953 EMD SW9. In 1984, it was sold by GE to Celanese Corp. It was brought to the railroad in late 2018. It arrived in poor condition, painted in faded Santa Fe dark blue, and is currently undergoing restoration to operational status. The railroad also has a collection of Cagney locomotives, but only one

2800-610: The VKM BLS. Example for an "Einheitswagen" delivered in 1957: In the United Kingdom, prior to nationalisation, wagons owned by the major railways were marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway concerned; for example, wagons of the Great Western Railway were marked "G W"; those of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were marked "L M S", etc. The codes were agreed between

2870-469: The VMT. No. 764 is an ex- Union Pacific (built), ex- Amtrak , ex- Maine Eastern , owned by RR Power Leasing, temporarily leased in 2016. No. 37 is an ex- Sugar Pine Lumber Company . Last operated in the 1990s. Purchased by Timber Heritage Association in November 2003 and moved from Wilmington & Western Railroad to Strasburg Railroad in 2010 to await funding for restoration to operational status. Recently,

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2940-541: The acquiring company discontinues the name or mark of the acquired company, the discontinued mark is referred to as a "fallen flag" railway. Occasionally, long-disused marks are suddenly revived by the companies which now own them. For example, in recent years, the Union Pacific Railroad has begun to use the mark CMO on newly built covered hoppers, gondolas and five-bay coal hoppers. CMO originally belonged to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ,

3010-542: The development of a new $ 1.5 million transloading facility funded by the railroad and matching grants. Increased freight shipments justified an additional locomotive purchase, a rebuilt EMD SW9 , in 2019. On February 12, 2023, the railroad inaugurated a six-track freight yard located off of Route U.S. 30 , the Lincoln Highway. No. 7312 originally operated for the Grand Trunk Railway and later

3080-452: The directors of various Commonwealth agencies: The Pennsylvania Bulletin is the weekly gazette containing proposed, enacted and emergency rules and other notices and important documents, which are codified in the Pennsylvania Code . The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the bicameral state legislature composed of 253 members: the House of Representatives with 203 members, and

3150-448: The first letter of the reporting mark: A railway vehicle must be registered in the relevant state's National Vehicle Register (NVR), as part of which process it will be assigned a 12-digit European Vehicle Number (EVN). The EVN schema is essentially the same as that used by the earlier UIC numbering systems for tractive vehicles and wagons , except that it replaces the 2-digit vehicle owner's code (see § Europe 1964 to 2005 ) with

3220-529: The home country may also be included. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board , Transport Canada , and Mexican Government. Railinc , a subsidiary of the AAR, maintains the active reporting marks for the North American rail industry. Under current practice, the first letter must match the initial letter of

3290-465: The locomotive was sold to the Age of Steam Roundhouse. No. 39 is a PRR G5 class " Ten Wheeler " type steam locomotive . Ex- Long Island Rail Road . The boiler arrived on the property in 2008; currently awaiting restoration. The remainder of the locomotive's parts are stored at the Railroad Museum of Long Island . No. 98, though never owned by SRC, was stored at East Strasburg station from 1960-1964. No. 98

3360-415: The mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters, is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating

3430-443: The mouth's ability to open and close, and a voice speaker . No. 972 was acquired from Rail Tours Inc. of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania after the company could not afford the payments for mechanical repairs that Strasburg was performing on the locomotive at the time. It currently sits in storage awaiting repairs. SRC also has a collection of early internal combustion locomotives; all but No. 1235 are in operation. No. 1 has operated on

3500-671: The municipality with consent of the Legislature. Municipalities may enact and enforce local ordinances . Pennsylvania enacted the Local Government Commission in 1935, by an Act of Assembly. The commission is one of the oldest in the country, composed of five members of the state Senate and House of Representatives who are appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of

3570-572: The owner of a reporting mark is taken over by another company, the old mark becomes the property of the new company. For example, when the Union Pacific Railroad (mark UP) acquired the Chicago and North Western Railway (mark CNW) in 1995, it retained the CNW mark rather than immediately repaint all acquired equipment. Some companies own several marks that are used to identify different classes of cars, such as boxcars or gondolas. If

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3640-405: The owner, or more precisely the keeper of the vehicle. Thus each UIC member got a two-digit owner code . With the introduction of national vehicle registers this code became a country code. Some vehicles had to be renumbered as a consequence. The Swiss company BLS Lötschbergbahn had the owner code 63. When their vehicles were registered, they got numbers with the country code 85 for Switzerland and

3710-407: The peace), who preside mainly over minor criminal offenses and small civil claims. Magisterial District Judges also preside over preliminary hearings in all misdemeanor and felony criminal cases. Most criminal and civil cases originate in the Courts of Common Pleas, which also serve as appellate courts to the district judges and for local agency decisions. The Superior Court hears all appeals from

3780-478: The pre-1852 history of the Strasburg Rail Road is sketchy, it is believed that the line was graded in 1835 and was operational by 1837. The railroad operated as a horse-drawn railroad until it purchased a second-hand Norris -built, 4-2-0 steam locomotive named the William Penn in 1851. Controlling interest in the railroad was purchased by John F. and Cyrus N. Herr in 1863. The rails were replaced around

3850-529: The railroad name. As it also acts as a Standard Carrier Alpha Code , the reporting mark cannot conflict with codes in use by other nonrail carriers. Marks ending with the letter "X" are assigned to companies or individuals who own railcars, but are not operating railroads; for example, the TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train Company) is named for its original reporting mark of TTX. In another example,

3920-502: The railroad was in danger of losing its designation as a common carrier entirely. The railroad made a strategic decision to actively seek out new freight business in 2008; at the time, the railroad was averaging less than one freight car per month. Improvements were made to the main line to accommodate the heavier weight of modern freight cars, and the railroad also purchased EMD SW8 #8618 to handle freight duties. Since 2008, freight carloads have increased substantially, which resulted in

3990-448: The railroad. After the better part of a year of hard work, the purchase was completed on November 1, 1958. The following week, on November 8, the first carload of revenue freight was hauled to what was then the only customer, a mill in Strasburg. Tourist excursion service began on January 4, 1959, and the first steam locomotive arrived the following year: in June 1960. When the railroad returned to operation for tourism, freight business

4060-540: The railways and registered with the Ministry of Railways , Government of India . Government of Pennsylvania The Government of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the governmental structure of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as established by the Pennsylvania Constitution . It is composed of three branches: executive , legislative and judicial . The state capital of Pennsylvania

4130-762: The railways and registered with the Railway Clearing House . In India, wagons owned by the Indian Railways are marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway divisions concerned along with the Hindi abbreviation; for example, trains of the Western Railway zone are marked "WR" and "प रे"; those of the Central Railway zone are marked "CR" and "मध्य", etc. The codes are agreed between

4200-441: The remainder of duties, or to use the PSP as the sole law enforcement agency. Any municipality may choose not to have a police department, and there is no extra cost for fully relying on the PSP. As of 2016 1,287 municipalities in the state used the PSP as their only local law enforcement, making up about 50% of the state's municipalities. The full PSP municipalities that have a population of 10,000 or below combined have about 17% of

4270-426: The reporting mark for state-funded Amtrak services in California is CDTX (whereas the usual Amtrak mark is AMTK) because the state transportation agency ( Caltrans ) owns the equipment used in these services. This may also apply to commuter rail, for example Metrolink in Southern California uses the reporting mark SCAX because the equipment is owned by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority —which owns

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4340-434: The rest of the railroad's motive power. No. 89 would remain in this orientation for hauling tourist trains until late 1973 when it was turned around using the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania 's, then recently installed, turntable across the street. Today it is often the locomotive of choice to pull smaller train consists . No. 475 originally operated for the Norfolk and Western Railway hauling freight. After retirement, it

4410-536: The same time with heavier ones to accommodate the locomotive. In 1866, the Herrs were granted a charter to extend the Strasburg Rail Road to Quarryville ; surveys were carried out, but the extension was eventually canceled because of an economic depression in 1867 . Isaac Groff managed The Strasburg Rail Road for about 20 years until the fire of January 16, 1871, which destroyed the depot, grist and merchant mill, planing mill and machine shop — in all, more than $ 50,000 worth of property, equal to $ 1,271,667 today. In 1878,

4480-441: The shops were enlarged to 30,000 square feet (2,790 m) to accommodate increasing demand for their services. Its freight department provides shipping and transloading for local and regional clients. Interchange is with Norfolk Southern at Leaman Place Junction in Paradise on Amtrak's Keystone Corridor. By the 1820s, the canal system had replaced the Conestoga wagon as the primary method of overland transportation. When

4550-537: The station include the fully operational 15 in ( 381 mm ) gauge Pint-Sized Pufferbelly ( Cagney steam-powered ridable miniature railway ), a vintage pump car and several c.1930s " cranky cars ", along with several gift shops and a cafe. The railroad's mechanical and car shops maintain and restore locomotives and rolling stock for the Strasburg Rail Road and a wide variety of public and private clients, including fellow railroads, steam locomotive operators, train museums, and other heavy industries. In 2016–17,

4620-483: The total number of people in Pennsylvania; these municipalities make up about 50% of the total municipalities in the state. About 80% of Pennsylvania residents live in areas with part-time or full-time police coverage, and those areas combined are 49% of the municipalities in the state. In 2019, about 66% of the municipalities in the state had PSP as the sole law enforcement or had a part-time police force combined with PSP. Any municipality using PSP may collect about 50% of

4690-480: Was impaired. This often resulted in five-letter reporting marks, an option not otherwise allowed by the AAR. Companies owning trailers used in trailer-on-flatcar service are assigned marks ending with the letter "Z", and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association , which maintains the list of Standard Carrier Alpha Codes, assigns marks ending in "U" to owners of intermodal containers . The standard ISO 6346 covers identifiers for intermodal containers. When

4760-515: Was purchased by father and son T. Clarence Marshall and Thomas C. Marshall, Jr. from Paulsen Spence's ill-fated Louisiana Eastern Railroad collection, for use on Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc's Wilmington and Western Railroad . No. 98 arrived on the Wilmington & Western in 1964 and was operational by 1972. No. 98 is currently out of service undergoing an overhaul and is expected to be operational sometime in 2023-4. The Walt Disney World Railroad locomotives No. 1-4 have each individually traveled to

4830-402: Was sold to several different owners until being purchased by the Strasburg Rail Road in June 1991. The Strasburg Rail Road had considered acquiring other steam locomotives prior to settling on No. 475, including Florida East Coast 4-6-2 No. 148 , Lake Superior and Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 34 , and Crab Orchard and Egyptian 2-8-0 No. 17. Upon arriving on property on July 20, 1991, it went through

4900-469: Was still pursued but was diminished compared to the past. Business from the Homsher feed mill ended in 1976, and one of the only sources of freight traffic was imported plastic pellets for a battery manufacturer in Lampeter . Occasional carloads of lumber were also carried, but freight traffic as a whole came to a near standstill a few years into the 2000s; the plastic pellet business was lost to trucks. Several years went by with no freight shipments at all, and

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