{"nrhp_refnum":"79002278","name":"Steel Passenger Coach No. 1650","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 steel passenger coach, Class P53, built in 1906 at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops and identified in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is one of several Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock entries nominated together under a multiple property listing.","why_significant":"The car was an experimental prototype for the Class P54 suburban coach, which was built in large numbers, while only this P53 was built. It is part of the early shift from wooden to steel passenger cars. The group of rolling stock is argued to contain many historically significant examples, many of them the only surviving specimens of their types, and the cars are described as genuine rather than replicas.","narrative":"Built in 1906 at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops, steel passenger coach No. 1650 is a Class P53 car 70 feet long with seating for 64 passengers. It served as an experimental prototype for the Class P54 suburban coach, which the railroad built in large numbers, but only one P53 was ever constructed, making this car the sole example of its design. It belongs to the early period when the company moved from wooden to steel passenger cars, following its first all-steel coaches of 1905 and 1906. The car is grouped with other Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock in a multiple property listing, a collection valued for holding many historically significant car types, several of them the only surviving examples of their kind. Its location is Strasburg, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":null,"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 17:11:34.384537-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002278.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993189","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/steel-passenger-coach-no-1650-79002278/"}