Train Heaven

We enjoyed breakfast on our seventh vacation day in The Red Caboose Motel’s restaurant, a refurbished P-70 railroad coach car, which overlooked the

Strasburg Rail Road

a quarter mile away. There the historic old locomotives bellowed black smoke and white steam as they boarded tourists for 45-minute excursions through the Amish farmland. After breakfast, we walked over to the National Toy Train Museum located next door to the motel. It was difficult to contain the boys’ excitement as they encountered hundreds of mint-condition toy trains of all sizes both on display and moving around five large professional looking layouts. Examples dated from the mid-1800’s to present and represented all the major toy train manufacturers as well as all five standard gauges; O, S, G, HO, and Z. The boys loved pushing the buttons to engage the trains.