They offer a workshop tour, timed so that you can ride the steam train first and arrive back with fifteen minutes to spare before the tour begins. It's an impressive workshop.
Photos by John Ashworth, 31 May 2014
Strasburg Railroad: workshop
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Strasburg Railroad: workshop
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- Spare parts, neatly stacked
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- A wheel lathe, if I remember rightly
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- A wheel press (?)
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- You get some interesting shots of the train from the workshop area.
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- The workshop also restores heritage weapons.
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- A replica Thomas the Tank Engine, which is non-operational and has to be pushed around by another locomotive.
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- The "real" operational Thomas, complete with dirty face.
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