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Red Caboose Motel : how it all started

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Date of Publication: 1970?]

Call Number: 647.974 R312

Place of Publication: [Strasburg, Pa

Publisher: The Motel,

Date of Publication: 1970?]

Physical Description: [26] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Red Caboose Motel (Strasburg, Pa.) - History.; Strasburg Rail Road (Strasburg, Pa.); Strasburg (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Amish Country (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 647.974 R312

Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-21-02-60

Date Range: March 16, 1971

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Strasburg Railroad engine

Provenance: Donated by Deanna M. Nolder.; Loose pages from photo album belonging to donor's late grandfather, G.Ross Bond of York, PA.

Date Range: March 16, 1971

Creator: Bond, George Ross

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Strasburg Railroad; Strasburg; Railroads; Engines

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 5 inches

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-21-02-60

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Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Note: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Company, Conestoga Transportation Company, and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-21-02-57

Date Range: March 16, 1971

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Strasburg Railroad Caboose

Provenance: Donated by Deanna M. Nolder.; Loose pages from photo album belonging to donor's late grandfather, G.Ross Bond of York, PA.

Date Range: March 16, 1971

Creator: Bond, George Ross

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Strasburg Railroad; Railroads; Cabooses

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 5 inches

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-21-02-57

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-21-02-59

Date Range: March 16, 1971

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Line of Railroad cars in Strasburg

Provenance: Donated by Deanna M. Nolder.; Loose pages from photo album belonging to donor's late grandfather, G.Ross Bond of York, PA.

Date Range: March 16, 1971

Creator: Bond, George Ross

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Strasburg Railroad; Railroads; Cabooses

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 5 inches

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-21-02-59

Images

Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-21-03-28

Date Range: August 21, 1972

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Various trains and equipment at Strasburg Railroad Museum

Provenance: Donated by Deanna M. Nolder.; Loose pages from photo album belonging to donor's late grandfather, G.Ross Bond of York, PA.

Date Range: August 21, 1972

Creator: Bond, George Ross

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Railroads; Strasburg Railroad; Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania; Museums

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 4 inches

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-21-03-28

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A history of the Strasburg Rail Road, 1832-1862

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Author: Kiscaden, Lester James.

Date of Publication: 1973.

A History of the Strasburg Rail Road, 1832-1862 by Lester James Kiscaden PREFACE This paper emerged out of a curiosity to investigate the origin of the Strasburg Rail Road. A life-long resident of Strasburg and interested in its past as well as its future, I felt compelled to investigate the first

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Responsibility: by Lester James Kiscaden.

Author: Kiscaden, Lester James.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Physical Description: [1]-25 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 77, no. 1

Subjects: Strasburg Railroad - History.; Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 77, number 1 (1973), p. 1-25Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.77