11/01/2025
Here is a special consideration... and a fundraiser for the museum, now that they broke ground on the roundhouse out in the yard....
I have always wanted to adopt 1223, my all-time favorite locomotive. She ran across the street at Strasburg RR for most of my life, but was retired from service and returned to the museum in the late 1980's never to run again. At least she is preserved forever!!
She was the star of two movies, "The Broadway Limited" of 1940, and "Hello Dolly" in 1969. She was retired from active service on the PRR in 1957, and put into storage until the Strasburg RR leased her from the Pennsylvania RR in the early 1960's to pull excursion trains on their line.
My first memories of riding trains was behind her and standing trackside in awe as she breathed coal smoke and smiled that gorgeous smile she has.
The museum has a cool program to fundraise, by adopting the various equipment, and they will post a tag on that artifact with the name you choose to show for having raised the money. They told me if I gave them the $250 to adopt her, the sign could carry "US Grant in Living History" as her host. SO, your help to do that would be much appreciated, so please DM me about how we can do this.
