This is America's oldest short-line railroad.
The takes tourists on a 45-minute journey through countryside that has barely changed for more than 100 years.
Wayne is a "red cap," who meets and greets passengers. "This goes back to 1832," he says. "It is one of the oldest train right-of-ways [strip of land for transportation] in the world, in fact. And these cars are vintage railcars."
Railcars that tell a tale of America's history.
President Abraham Lincoln inaugurated the railroad's passenger service in 1861, when he rode the train to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was months before the start of the U.S. Civil War.
At the turn of the last century, competition from other American rail services forced the Strasburg to stop running regular passenger trains. And after World War Two, improved highways took even more business away from the railroad.
But the Strasburg reopened as a tourist railroad in 1959. Today, it has been restored to its former glory as a coal-burning steam railroad.
"It takes a lot of man hours to keep those engines running," says Wayne.
Those engines have been running for 175 years now, taking passengers on a journey back to the golden age of the American railroad.