{"nrhp_refnum":"79002284","name":"Wooden Hopper Gondola No. 1818","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 hopper gondola freight car, No. 1818, built in 1895 for the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad and preserved as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock thematic resource in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the car is a representative example of the wooden freight car era, which ran from about 1830 to 1897, and that it is one of only a few surviving examples of thousands that once carried coal and bulk goods. It cites the Class GG design, adopted in 1895, as the first self-cleaning hopper car. The document describes all cars in the group as genuine rather than replicas.","narrative":"A wooden hopper gondola built in 1895 for the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad, car No. 1818 is a Class GG freight car used to haul coal and other bulk commodities. The Class GG design, adopted in 1895, is recorded as the first self-cleaning hopper car. Its hoppers have floors set at a 30 degree angle, which the Pennsylvania Railroad's 1946 history gives as the present slope for coal hoppers. The car has an inside length of 27 feet 7 inches and a nominal capacity of 70,000 pounds. It belongs to the wooden era of American railroad freight cars, which lasted from 1830 to 1897. Thousands of cars of this type once operated, but few remain. The nomination treats it as one of the only surviving examples of its type, and as a genuine car rather than a replica, which is why it was listed as part of a rolling stock group.","period_of_significance":null,"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 17:11:34.196446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002284.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993171","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/wooden-hopper-gondola-no-1818-79002284/"}