Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania/Strasburg Railroad

During the July fourth weekend, 2000, I visited, for the first time, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the Strasburg Railroad, both in Strasburg, PA. The museum is an awesome place for a railfan to visit! The display of motive power and rolling stock is second to none. I shot the pictures below; click on a thumbnail to see the picture in its full web size (640x480 -- I regret that, due to space limitations, I cannot present these photos in all of their megapixel glory).

4-4-0 American #1223	4-4-0 American #1223	2-8-2 Mikado #520	0-8-0 Eight-Coupled #1187	Test Weight Car
2-8-0 Consolidation #1187	4-4-2 Atlantic #468	4-4-2 Atlantic #468	E44 Rectifier #4465	Passenger Car
Bobber Caboose	4-6-2 K4s Pacific	4-6-2 K4s Pacific	4-6-2 K4s Pacific	4-8-2 M1 Mountain
4-8-2 M1 Mountain	Baldwin Diesel Switcher	Yard Turntable	Reading FP7 Diesel	Reading FP7 Diesel
Conrail derrick	0-4-0 Reading Camelback	0-4-0 Reading Camelback	GG-1 #4800	0-4-0 Reading Camelback
Reading FP-7 Diesel	GG-1 #4800	GG-1 #4800	2-8-4 NKP Berkshire	2-8-4 NKP Berkshire
RS-1 Diesel	Reading Crusader Obs car	Tank Engine	Strasburg RR Decapod	Strasburg RR Decapod
FP-7 control stand	Replica of John Bull	Steam Loco backhead	FGE Reefer	0-4-0T Steamer
Pennsy N5C Caboose	Geared Heisler	Geared Climax	Geared Shay #1	Geared Shay #1
GG-1 Pantograph	GG-1 #4935	GG-1 #4935	4-4-2 Atlantic #7002	4-4-2 Atlantic #7002
B-1 Electric Switcher	0-6-0 Six Coupled Switcher	4-6-0 Ten Wheeler	2-6-0 Mogul	Builder's Plates
0-4-0 Four Coupled #94	DD-1 Electric	4-4-0 American #1223	2-8-2 Mikado #520	View from Overhead
View from Overhead	Strasburg RR #475	#90 Running Around	View from the excursion	Decapod #90
Decapod #90	Coupling to the Train	Decapod #90	Decapod #90	Decapod #90

After the TCA York meet in April of 2002, my friend Bob, his daughters, and I visited the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and went for a ride on the Strasburg Railroad on a train pulled by consolidation #475. It was a great deal of fun, as the following pictures should show. Unfortunately, the museum yard was closed due to restoration work, so we were only able to see the trains inside the museum proper -- it was still well worth the visit. The first few photos show #475 pulling into the station.

The passenger cars are very old and have been lovingly restored, as you can see in the next photo. The flue in the lower center is coming from the potbellied coal stove!

Heading toward Leaman Place (the interchange between the Strasburg Railroad and the former PRR main line, the locomotive runs backward as there's no place there to turn it.

Here, the locomotive is running past the train at Leaman Place to pull it back to Strasburg.

The Strasburg Railroad has a little red caboose -- or maybe, not so little after all!

Inside the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is a well-preserved example of the PRR DD1. MTH will be bringing out a Premier model of this coupled pair of locomotives later in 2002.

Note the sliding shoes to allow the DD1 to use the outside third rail for power.

Here are Bob's daughters Kimberly and Stephanie in front of the PRR K4s #3750, one of the famous fleet of PRR 4-6-2 Pacific-type steamers.

And here they are again, this time with D16sb #1223, a 4-4-0 American-type steamer.

This one is a bit older than the one still running on the Strasburg RR; it's the Virginia & Truckee Tahoe, a 2-6-0 Mogul-type steamer.

Here's one of the well-restored old-time passenger cars in the museum's collection.

Parked out in the yard, next to the road, is the PRR 4-8-2 Mountain-type steamer, class M1b, sadly in need of restoration.

Last Updated: 15 Feb 2007

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