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DATE: October 16, 2024

TIME: 5:00 - 7:00 PM

PRICE: Free for Members & Subscribers

*Not a member or Subscriber? Contact Tom Wallace, twallace@lancasterchamber.com, to find out how to attend!*

LOCATION: Strasburg Railroad

Strasburg, Pennsylvania—a Rockwell-esque small town in the middle of bucolic Pennsylvania Dutch Country—is home to the oldest continuously operating railroad in North America and the most visited heritage railroad in the continental United States. Chartered in June 1832, the Strasburg Rail Road began serving the community of Strasburg with both freight and passenger service in antebellum America when covered wagons and canals were still commonplace. Today, 200 years after its founding and 60 years after it was revived as a tourist/heritage railroad, the Strasburg Rail Road has an active freight department and world-renowned restoration shops while still dedicated to its mission to provide an early 20th-century steam railroading experience in a safe, clean, and friendly environment for its guests. The Strasburg Rail Road remains dedicated to steam locomotive operation and still ranks as one of the region’s most frequented attractions with annual ridership averaging 300,000 passengers.

Food partners that evening will include Café 1832 and Waltz Vineyards.