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Wraps. Condizione: Good. 35, [5] pages. Map. Illustrations (Front and back covers have color illustrations). This work tells the story of the rebirth of the Strasburg Rail Road that began in 1958. This edition has major revisions/enhancements from the previous edition. William Moedinger liked anything that ran on rails. He took photographs of trains from the time he was old enough to hold a camera. He lived to 97 and left a photographic and life legacy interwoven with railroading. In 1943 he got a job as a Pullman conductor. Thus began a twelve-year career that he rated as the best job in the world. Bill was enthusiastically involved with the Strasburg Rail Road to the end. He served as the first marketing director for about a decade, was one of the first engineers on the Plymouth and steam, and then became president for seventeen years until his retirement in 1975. Bill authored The Road to Paradise, a snapshot pictorial history of the Strasburg Rail Road. Bill was the last survivor of the 1958 Strasburg Rail Road founders. The Strasburg Rail Road is the oldest continuously operating railroad in the western hemisphere and the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1832, the Strasburg Rail Road continues to operate under its original charter and original name (Strasburg Rail Road Company). Located just outside of the town of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, the railroad is a heritage railroad offering excursion trains, hauled by steam locomotives, through the heart of world-famous Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Strasburg currently has five (5) serviceable historic steam locomotives (Canadian National 7312, Canadian National 89, Great Western 90, N&W 475, Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 15 (rebuilt as Thomas the Tank Engine) on its roster and has the nation's largest fleet of historic wooden passenger coaches in operation. The Strasburg Rail Road is also one of the few railroads in the United States to occasionally use steam locomotives to haul revenue freight trains. Fourth Edition, Second printing (as stated on page 6). William M. Moedinger (Photographer); Brenda Ulmer (illustratore).…

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