{"nrhp_refnum":"79002276","name":"Passenger and Baggage Car No. 4639","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"E of Strasburg","address_restricted":false,"city":"Strasburg","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":39.982416870000066,"lon":-76.16077163499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Invention"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Passenger and Baggage Car No. 4639, a Pennsylvania Railroad combination passenger and baggage car of Class OG, built in 1895 at the company's Juniata Shops in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is listed as a structure within the Pennsylvania Railroad Rolling Stock Thematic Resources.","why_significant":"The car was built for express passenger service and has a capacity of 50 people. The nomination treats it as one of a variety of historically significant rolling stock examples, many of which are the only surviving specimens of their types. The document states that all cars in the group are genuine rather than replicas.","narrative":"Built at the Juniata Shops in March 1895, Passenger and Baggage Car No. 4639 is a combination car of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Class OG. It measures about 60 feet 14 inches in outside length and 9 feet 10 inches in width, rides on six cast iron wheels, and weighs 71,200 pounds. Its interior accommodated 50 people, and the car was designed for express passenger service. Heating was provided by a coal stove, with oil and candle lighting. The car belongs to a group of Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock examples that represent types from the late nineteenth century. Several of these cars are among the few surviving specimens of their types, and the group is valued for documenting how the railroad's equipment was built and used during that period.","period_of_significance":"1895","architect_builder":"Pennsylvania Railroad, Juniata Shops","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.50552-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002276.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993187","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/passenger-and-baggage-car-no-4639-79002276/"}