Strasburg Rail Road

Strasburg Rail Road
Overview
Locale	Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Founded	1832
Headquarters	Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The Strasburg Rail Road is a heritage railroad located in Strasburg, PA. The railroad operates between Strasburg and Leaman Place Junction and is adjacent to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, which is located across the street from the railroad. It is also the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, having been chartered in 1832.

Locomotive Roster

Current Locomotives

Image	Number	Builder	Build Date	Wheel Arrangement	Railroad	Status
	3	Cagney Bros.	1920	4-4-0		Operational
	9	Cagney Bros.	1903	4-4-0		Stored, Out of Service
	15	H. K. Porter Company	March 1917	0-6-0T	Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal	Operational
	89	Canadian Locomotive Company	February 1910	2-6-0	Canadian National Railway	Operational
	90	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1924	2-10-0	Great Western Railway of Colorado	Operational
	475	Baldwin Locomotive Works	June 1906	4-8-0	Norfolk & Western Railway	Operational
	972	Montreal Locomotive Works	1912	4-6-0	Canadian Pacific Railway	Stored, Out of Service
	7312	Baldwin Locomotive Works	August 1908	0-6-0	Canadian National Railway	Undergoing Restoration
	1	Plymouth Locomotive Works	1926	B		Operational
	2	Plymouth Locomotive Works	1930	B		Operational
	10	Sanders Machine Shop	1915	B-B	Lancaster, Oxford & Southern Railroad	Operational
	1235	Electro-Motive Division (EMD)	1953	B-B	Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway	Under Restoration
	8618	Electro-Motive Division (EMD)	1952	B-B	New York Central Railroad	Operational

Former Locomotives

Image	Number	Builder	Build Date	Configuration	Railroad	Status	Current Owner(s)
	98	American Locomotive Company (ALCO)	January 1909	4-4-0	Mississippi Central Railroad	Under Restoration	Wilmington and Western Railroad
	1187	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1903	0-4-0C	Reading Company	On display	Age of Steam Roundhouse
	1223	Juniata Shops	November 1905	4-4-0	Pennsylvania Railroad	On display	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
	7002	Altoona Works	1902	4-4-2	Pennsylvania Railroad	On display	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
	9331	General-Electric	1948	B-B	Pennsylvania Railroad	Operational	Walkersville Southern Railroad (Privately owned)

Visiting Locomotives

Image	Number	Builder	Build Date	Configuration	Railroad	Status
	37	American Locomotive Company (ALCO)	1925	2-8-2ST	Sugar Pine Lumber Company	On display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse
	39	Juniata Shops	1929	4-6-0	Long Island Railroad	Undergoing Restoration
	611	N&W's Roanoke Shops	May 1950	4-8-4	Norfolk & Western Railway	Operational

Trivia

• The Strasburg Rail Road and its locomotives have appeared in a number of films and television series, including Thomas and the Magic Railroad, I Heard the Bells, The Gilded Age, Modern Marvels, Great Scenic Railway Journeys, & an episode of American Experience on the Orphan Trains.
  • The Strasburg Railroad has also appeared in many videos throughout the years, such as All About Fast Moving Trains, Great American Train Rides Volume 4, I Love Toy Trains 4, I Love Toy Trains The Music Video, and many others.
• The line is used for tourist excursion trains, that 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.
• Its freight department provides shipping and transloading for local and regional clients. Since 2008, freight carloads have increased substantially, which resulted in development of a new $1.5 million transloading facility funded by the railroad and matching grants.
• In 2023, the Strasburg Rail Road opened a six-track freight yard located at Southern Lancaster County as part of the mainline.
• On September 4, 2014, an empty excursion train was departing from the station when open-air passenger car No. 99 suddenly derailed. There were no injuries. The derailment was caused by a glitch in one of the track switches by the station. The crew eventually got the passenger car back on track by 3:30 pm.