RONKS, Pa. — Strasburg Rail Road 4-8-0 No. 475, damaged in a Nov. 2 collision with a piece of track maintenance equipment, is back in operation on the railroad’s trains today (Monday, Nov. 7), Strasburg General Manager Jim Hager reports in a note to Trains News Wire correspondent Dan Cupper.
The locomotive suffered damage to its smokebox front and door, headlight, and some other parts in the collision with a “trackhoe,” or tracked excavator, after running through a misaligned switch onto a spur where the maintenance machine was parked [see “Strasburg collision damages No. 475 …,” Trains News Wire, Nov. 2, 2022]. No one was injured. The accident was captured by a Virtual Railfan streaming camera; video from that camera was widely shared online.
The Federal Railroad Administration was scheduled to inspect the locomotive and investigate the incident last week.
No. 475, the only operating 4-8-0 in the U.S., was built by Baldwin in June 1906 and operated on Norfolk & Western until 1962. It has been at Strasburg since 1991.
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