Too Much To Leave

Wanting to see more before leaving this area, we chose to stay an additional night. The popular Red Caboose Motel was sold out for Friday night, so we had to move to a traditional hotel nearby. While this wasn’t as exciting as sleeping in a real train car, it did offer an indoor swimming pool which we enjoyed. Early on the morning of the eighth day, we visited the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. It is considered one of the finest locomotive and rolling stock collections in the United States. Inside their huge building we saw dozens of beautifully restored engines and scores more examples of various train car varieties. The museum provided a detailed legend for each artifact and many were open to inspection. Outside we saw a working round-table and many more trains and cars waiting to be restored. In all, we saw five more cabooses.