New This 1956 Penn Key Box Car That Been Abandoned Together With Forgotten For Xxx Years Has A Third Life Left Inwards It, Every Bit A Local Commons Centerpiece For Local Railroad History, Later On A Consummate Restoration. The Cumberland Valley Railroad Museum Volition Live On Opened Upwards Year-Round For Self-Guided Tours.

The auto was stranded later on the PRR master copy was ripped upwards through town, as well as they missed that it was yet out on tracks because it was on a siding behind the one-time Domestic Castings manufacturing site inward Shippensburg. Since they didn't motility it earlier pulling upwards all the tracks, at that topographic point it stayed.

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The Cumberland Valley Rail Trail Council, Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation as well as Shippensburg University came together amongst the Shippensburg Township as well as Dave’s Trucking of Chambersburg to motility the 1950s boxcar to the CVRT Shippensburg Trailhead correct betwixt downtown as well as the university.

“We are going to rehab it. We're going to ability launder it, scrape it, pigment it, as well as it’s going to await beautiful,” Steve Oldt, Supervisor Chairman, Shippensburg Township, said.

For nearly 20 years, the CVRTC has developed the one-time Cumberland Valley Railroad into an eleven-mile, multipurpose recreation trail. The department through Shippensburg Township Park was completed inward 2006, but the stretch through campus sat relatively untouched, equally usual, at that topographic point were no funds.

About 5 years ago, the CVRTC received a grant to consummate the trail on Ship’s campus, Taylor said. After dealing amongst a few practical issues, they started clearing out the trail inward 2016.

Two things are needed to exercise an authentic community development, according to Dieterich-Ward—outdoor recreation as well as a connecter to where you lot are. Adjacent to the trail, the boxcar provided a perfect chance to prepare an accessible mini-museum that told the storey of the Cumberland Valley Railroad. These novel developments—the rail trail extension, comfort station, boxcar museum, as well as functioning space—collectively were renamed Shippensburg Station.

Stanton said people accept told stories nigh the dissimilar railroads, but no 1 has position the whole storey of the Cumberland Valley Railroad together similar this. “There weren’t many places served yesteryear 3 railroads,” he said. “The whole storey has never been told inward 1 place.”

With tracks placed underneath the boxcar as well as railroad artifacts inside, the boxcar transforms into a museum commemorating the rail manufacture inward Shippensburg.