In the little mountain town of Strasburg, Pennsylvania (OK, OK, there are no mountains), lucky visitors will find the Strasburg Rail Road (not "railroad", apparently). The Strasburg Rail Road is a heritage railroad and the oldest continuously operating standard-gauge railroad in the western hemisphere, as well as the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Wikipedia page for the Rail Road has a pretty comprehensive list of locomotives and rolling stock (past and present) - at first I thought that this example was not mentioned, but I believe that it is the Reading 1187, a camelback A-4b class 0-4-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Chartered in 1832, the Strasburg Rail Road Company is today a heritage railroad offering excursion trains hauled by steam locomotives on 4.02 mi (6.47 km) of track in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, as well as providing contract railroad mechanical services,…
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