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August 13, 2009

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On Location: Strasburg, PA

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Continuing our East Coast tour, Chris Brimley and I stopped in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, home of the Strasburg Railroad and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

After a relatively quick stop at the Strasburg Railroad, where we decided not to take a train ride simce we had done one the day before in Jim Thorpe, we made our way to the museum.

While the museum has an extensive and impressive collection of Pennsy locomotives and rolling stock, we were somewhat disappointed to learn that the museum’s Brunswick Green GG1 #4835 (nicknamed Black Jack) was in their shop and not on display. They offered an explanation about waiting to have their budgets approved in order to complete work on the GG1 before returning it to display. We did, however, get to see the PRR prototype GG1 #4800 (nicknamed Old Rivets, or just Rivets), complete with its original, fully riveted exterior skin.  This prototype was built before famed industrial designer, Raymond Lowery recommended that the Pennsylvania Railroad streamline the locomotive’s appearance by welding all of its seams.

Since I provided a previous article about the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, I’ll just provide new photos here from the museum and the Stasburg Railroad. You may also view two videos on the N Scale Limited YouTube Channel of Strasburg’s Great Western 2-10-0 steam locomotive #90 and a walkaround of the PRR Tuscan E7 #5901.

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  • http://www.model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/kcsphil1 Philip H

    Interesting that “Rivets” is out in the weather, but the Conrail GP isn’t . . . .

  • Frank Giacobbe

    My understanding is that Rivets is outdoors after the US government came in to remove environmentally hazardous chemicals from its interior and practically gutted it, leaving just the shell. Therefore, the cost of full restoration is extremely high.

    I don’t have the information in front of me at the moment as to what chemicals were removed, but you can get more information on this from the recent Classic Trains magazine that featured the GG1. They have a section that describes what was done as part of the EPA clean up. If I recall, this was chemical inside of the GG1′s motor and deemed hazardous even though used on the electrics for some time (don’t quote me on that).

  • Frank Giacobbe

    Also, note, the museum only gives indoor placement to restored equipment. Therefore, from that standpoint alone, Rivets would remain outdoors.

  • Jim Boyer

    Every agency in Pennsylvania is waiting for money. The budget expired 45 days ago, and they still can’t agree on a new one.
    I’m really glad they restored the Reading FP-7s. I used to watch them run push-pull through Reading when they still had passenger service between Philadelphia and Pottsville. Never got to ride behind them. Seems every time I went to Philly they had RDCs on that run.

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