Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is a railroad museum in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The museum's collection has more than 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars that chronicle American railroad history. Visitors can climb aboard various locomotives and cars, inspect a 62-ton locomotive from underneath, view restoration activities via closed-circuit television, enjoy interactive educational programs, and more.
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania was created to provide a historical account of railroading in Pennsylvania by preserving rolling stock, artifacts, and archives of railroad companies of the Commonwealth. However, the museum has branched out over the years, acquiring some pieces that are not directly related to Pennsylvania, but are important to the history of railroading.
For the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, the Pennsylvania Railroad had displayed a number of historic locomotives and cars they had collected over the years. After the fair had ended, the PRR, decided to preserve the equipment that was displayed, along with various other locomotives and rolling stock. The equipment was stored away in a roundhouse in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and looked after by employees.
With the state looking to establish a railroad museum and PRR successor Penn Central looking to rid itself of the collection in the late 1960s, it was decided the museum was to be built directly next to the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The engines were moved to the Strasburg Rail Road, where they were stored while the museum was under construction. A large number of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Historic Collection was sent to Strasburg coupled together, forming the "Train of Trains."
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania was officially opened to the public on April 1, 1975. As the museum acquired more equipment, they required more space, so in 1995, Rolling Stock Hall was expanded by 55,000 square feet.
Today, the museum covers 18 acres of land, including 100,000 square feet indoors. A roundhouse for the larger locomotives that are currently stored outside was planned for 2018 but had not broken ground as-of January 2019. In all, the museum holds roughly 100 pieces of rolling stock, some nearing 200 years old.
==List of Exhibits==
;Steam Locomotives:
Photograph	Locomotive 	Locomotive Class	Wheel Arrangement	Build date 	Manufacturer
 	Virginia and Truckee No. 20 Tahoe 	- 	2-6-0 	1875 	Baldwin Locomotive Works
 	Pennsylvania Power & Light No. 4094 	- 	0-8-0T 	1940 	Heisler Locomotive Works
 	W.T. Smith Lumber Co. No. 10 	2 Truck Heisler 	- 	1918 	Heisler Locomotive Works
 	W.H. Mason Lumber Co. No. 4 	Class B 	Climax Locomotive	1913 	Climax Manufacturing Co.
 	Enterprise Lumber Co. No. 4 	 	3 truck Shay 	1906 	Lima Locomotive Works
 	Reading No. 1251 	Class B-4a 	0-6-0T 	1918 	Reading Shops
 	Waimanolo Sugar Railway No. 3 'Olomana' 	- 	0-4-2T 	1883 	Baldwin Locomotive Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 94 	A5 	0-4-0 	1917 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 460 	E6 	4-4-2 	1914 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 520 	L1 	2-8-2 	1916 	Baldwin Locomotive Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 1187 	H3 	2-8-0 	1888 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 1223 	D16 	4-4-0 	1905 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 1670 	B6 	0-6-0 	1916 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 2846 	H6 	2-8-0 	1905 	Baldiwn Locomotive Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 3750 	K4 	4-6-2 	1920 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 5741 	G5 	4-6-0 	1924 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 6755 	M1 	4-8-2 	1930 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 7688 	H10 	2-8-0 	1915 	Lima Locomotive Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 8063 (dressed up as 7002)	E7 	4-4-2 	7002 in 1902 and 8063 in 1905.	Altoona Works
 	Bethlehem Steel No. 111 	 	0-4-0F 	1941 	Heisler Locomotive Works
200x200px 	John Stevens (replica) 	 	2-1-2 	1939 	Altoona Works
 	John Bull (replica) 	 	2-4-0 	1940 	Altoona Works
;Diesel Locomotives:
Photograph	Locomotive 	Locomotive Class	Build date	Manufacturer
 	Conrail No. 2233 	GP30 	1963 	Electro-Motive Division
200x200px 	No. 1200 	S-12 	1951 	Baldiwn Locomotive Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 5901 	E7A 	1945 	Electro-Motive Division
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 7006 	GP9 	1955 	Electro-Motive Division
 	Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad No. 81	NW2 	1946 	Electro-Motive Division
 	Monongahela Connecting Railroad No. 701 	ALCO Century 415	1968 	American Locomotive Company
;Electric Locomotives:
Photograph	Locomotive 	Locomotive Class	Build date 	Manufacturer
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 3936 and 3937	DD1 	1911 	Altoona Works
200px 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 4465 	E44 	1963 	General Electric
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 4800 	GG1 	1934 	General Electric
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 4935 	GG1 	1943 	Altoona Works
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 5690 	B1 	1934 	Altoona Works
 	Amtrak No. 603 	GE E60 	June 1976 	General Electric
200x200px 	Amtrak No. 915 	EMD AEM-7 	January 1981	Electro-Motive Division
 	Pennsylvania Railroad No. 860 	Metroliner 	1968 	Budd Company
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;Former Locomotives:
Photograph	Locomotive 	Locomotive Class	Wheel Arrangement	Build date	Manufacturer 	Status
 	Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal No. 13	- 	0-6-0T 	1919 	H. K. Porter 	On static display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio
 	Nickel Plate Road No. 757 	Class S-2 	2-8-4 	1944 	Lima Locomotive Works 	On static display at the the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, Bellevue, Ohio
 	Pennsylvania No. 3 	 	 	1912 	Baldwin Locomotive Works	On static display at the J&L Narrow Gauge Railway in Youngstown, Ohio
==Trivia== 
*The National Toy Train Museum, & Choo Choo Barn are located nearby, and the Strasburg Rail Road is across the street from the museum.
*In addition to full-size rolling stock pieces, the museum offers a number of other commodities, which include several model railroad layouts, a hands-on educational center, a library and archives, and a smaller exhibit gallery on the second floor.
*It occasionally uses Strasburg Railroad tracks to connect to the Amtrak Philadelphia-to-Harrisburg Main Line junction in Paradise, Pennsylvania.
*The museum made an agreement with the Strasburg Rail Road to lease Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives 1223 and 7002 for tourist excursion service. PRR 1223 entered service with Strasburg in 1963 and PRR 7002 entered service with Strasburg in 1983. They both operated with Strasburg until their retirement from excursion service in 1989, after which, they were placed back on indoor static display at the museum.
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