Strasburg Railroad
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| Reporting mark | SRC |
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| Locale | Strasburg and Paradise Townships, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| Dates of operation | 1832–present |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 4.5 mi (7.2 km) |
| Headquarters | Strasburg, Pennsylvania |
| Website | strasburgrailroad |
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The Strasburg Rail Road (reporting mark SRC) is the oldest continuously operating railroad in the western hemisphere and the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1832, the Strasburg Rail Road continues to operate under its original charter and original name (Strasburg Rail Road Company). Located just outside of the town of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, the railroad is a heritage railroad offering excursion trains, hauled by steam locomotives, through the heart of world-famous Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Strasburg currently has five (5) serviceable historic steam locomotives (Canadian National 7312, Canadian National 89, Great Western 90, N&W 475, Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 15 (rebuilt as Thomas the Tank Engine) on its roster and has the nation's largest fleet of historic wooden passenger coaches in operation. The Strasburg Rail Road is also one of the few railroads in the United States to occasionally use steam locomotives to haul revenue freight trains. It hosts 300,000 visitors per year.
Across the street from the Strasburg Rail Road is the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. The Strasburg Rail Road serves as the Museum's physical rail connection to the Amtrak Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line junction in Paradise, Pennsylvania.
In March 2017, the Strasburg Rail Road released Images of Rail: Strasburg Rail Road by Eric S. Conner and Steve Barrall. The 128-page book with over 200 historic photographs chronicles the unlikely success of America's oldest continuously operating railroad. The book details how and why Strasburg's four-and-a-half mile line survived as an iconic, internationally-known, small town railroad. The Strasburg Rail Road receives all proceeds, profits, and royalties from the sale of each book so that the company can further the work of preserving America's steam railroading history.
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