{"nrhp_refnum":"79002282","name":"Wooden Baggage Express No. 6","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 wooden-framed baggage express car, Class BA, built in 1882 at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops, and listed as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Rolling Stock Thematic Resource in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The car is 46 feet 6 inches long.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the car as one of a variety of historically significant rolling stock examples, many of which are the only surviving specimens of their types. It notes that the car is genuine rather than a replica. The document identifies it as a survivor from the Pennsylvania Railroad's wooden equipment of the 1880s.","narrative":"Built in 1882 at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops, this wooden-framed baggage express car is 46 feet 6 inches long. It is classed as a Class BA baggage express car and belongs to the railroad's wooden rolling stock of the early 1880s. The car is listed as part of a multiple-property group of Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock in Lancaster County. Its importance rests on rarity: the group contains a variety of examples of historically significant equipment, many of which are the only surviving specimens of their types. The car is a genuine original, not a replica, which the nomination treats as a key reason for its inclusion. Railroad baggage cars of this kind carried luggage, express freight and mail alongside passenger service, so surviving examples document how the railroad moved goods as well as people in the late nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1882","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 17:11:33.113879-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002282.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993157","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/wooden-baggage-express-no-6-79002282/"}