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Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Rolling Stock
Coudersport & Port Allegany
snowplow (1897) / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Pennsylvania Railroad #19103
steel boxcar (1960) / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Penn Central #32367
covered hopper (1955) / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Fruit Growers Express #57708
wooden reefer (1928) / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Conrail #31188
Industrial Brownhoist 250 ton crane (1953)
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Pennsylvania Railroad #255750
covered hopper / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
American Car & Foundry Co #4556
tank car (1939) / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Pennsylvania Railroad #13182
ore jenny (1964) / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Lehigh & New England #14518
steel hopper / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Delaware & Hudson #19607
wooden boxcar (1907) / Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Mack Railbus
Lewisburg, Milton & Watsontown #20
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Strasburg, Pa / Jul 2024 / Gragg Robinson
Lewisburg, Milton & Watsonburg Railway, a Pennsylvania trolley line, acquired the new railbus in 1921. The railbus was built with a Mack Truck chassis and engine, and a body built by Brill. In 1928, it went to Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1931 to Artemus-Jellico, a Kentucky shortine. Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad acquired the railbus in 1941. Strasburg Railroad, a tourist railroad, acquired the railbus in 1969. It was donated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in 2001. In 2019, the railbus was in the process of being cosmetically restored by the museum.
Strasburg Rail Road #21
Strasburg, Pa / May 1987 / collection
Strasburg Rail Road #21
to Pennsylvania Railroad
to Artemus & Jellico
to Buffalo Creek & Gauley
to Strasburg Rail Road #21
to Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
this railbus also posted in Strasburg Rolling Stock
Strasburg, Pa / Aug 1971 / JCH
Strasburg, Pa / Aug 1971 / JCH
Strasburg, Pa / Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Most of Brill's railbuses were built for Mack, which already had experience in the automotive truck industry and which sold its railbuses under the name International Motor Company until sometime in 1922. They were the railroad equivalent of the streetcar Birneys they resembled — not very comfortable riding and a little too lightly-built to be as safe as one might wish, not to mention somewhat ludicrous looking. In the United States, gas railcars such as these and even the later, more sophisticated versions received the undignified nickname "doodlebug."
Debra Brill / History of the J.G. Brill Company
from History of the J.G. Brill Company
/ collection
Strasburg, Pa / Sep 1999 / John Durant 
Strasburg, Pa / Aug 1989 / RWH
See also our complete Strasburg Rail Road Rolling Stock scrapbook in Preservation
Lehigh Valley #2606
bobber caboose (1890) / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Pennsylvania #490398
scale test car / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain #16
wooden caboose (1913) / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie #508
steel bay window caboose / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Pennsylvania Railroad #477947
steel caboose / Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Model Railroads
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
e have many exhibits that are both hands-on and interactive, and they are specifically designed for kids of all ages. (Yes, adults are welcome to experience these exhibits, as well!) Many of our interactive exhibits are housed in Stewart Junction, located on the west end of Platform One. However, we have interactive exhibits in other locations in the Museum, as well. There is a place where you can pretend to shovel coal into a mock locomotive firebox. There is an exhibit where you can pretend to sort mail, as in a Railway Post Office car. There’s a link-and-pin coupler you may try, and flip panels where you can explore life in a typical “railroad town” in Pennsylvania, circa 1915. We also have several model railroad displays in several locations in the Museum, including one in the main lobby and others in Stewart Junction.
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
Strasburg, Pa / May 2024 / RWH
