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Women in Rail Steam, That Is! Written by Dan Cupper, Editor-Railroad History, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
Fireman Shelley Hall, left, and engineer Andrea Biesecker prepare to run around their Strasburg Rail Road passenger train at Leaman Place Junction (Paradise, Pa.), the short line’s connection with Amtrak‘s Philadelphia-Harrisburg, Pa., electrified main line. March 6, 2021. All photos by Dan Cupper.
The Strasburg Rail Road, America’s oldest short line railroad, honored International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women’s History Month by assigning its first-ever all-female steam locomotive crew.
Andrea Biesecker worked as engineer and Shelley Hall as fireman for all five round-trips on the 189-year-old Strasburg Rail Road, the 4.5-mile-long tourist and freight carrier in southeastern Pennsylvania. The runs took place on a cold and blustery Saturday, March 6, with No. 475, the same Baldwin-built 1906 former Nor