{"nrhp_refnum":"79002277","name":"Steel Hopper Car No. 33164","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":"A Class GL steel hopper car, No. 33164, built in 1898 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and held at Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is one of the rolling stock resources nominated as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Rolling Stock thematic group.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a fine example of a first generation steel gondola, succeeding the wooden Class GG hopper cars. The Class GL is identified as the first all-steel hopper class, built in 1898. The nomination argues that these surviving cars are important as rare survivals of their types and as examples of the development of railroad motive power and freight cars.","narrative":"Built in 1898 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Steel Hopper Car No. 33164 is a Class GL open hopper car used to carry coal and other bulk commodities. The Class GL, introduced that year, was the first all-steel hopper car in the railroad's fleet, following the wooden Class GG cars of 1895. The car has an inside length of 31 feet 6 1/4 inches and a rated capacity of 100,000 pounds. It is a fine example of the first generation of steel gondolas that replaced earlier wooden cars. Its significance lies in its rarity as a surviving specimen of its type and in what it shows about the development of freight rolling stock on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The nomination treats it as part of a group of cars that together document the railroad's equipment history.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":null,"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 17:11:33.997442-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002277.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993173","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/steel-hopper-car-no-33164-79002277/"}