Choo-Choos and More in Pennsylvania
By Christina Breda Antoniades
The Washington Post

[…]For a road trip to Lancaster County, don’t limit yourself to one mode of travel. Instead, head out on an exploration of transportation, from old-timey locomotives to gleaming Harleys to the slow-but-steady horse and buggy. Young, old or somewhere in between, this is one journey that will feed your fascination for things that go vroom - or neigh[…]

[…]Of course, you didn’t come all this way to just eat and shop. Lancaster is train country, with a railroad, railroad museum, model train museum, caboose motel and other rail-related attractions, just east of Strasburg. To get there, take the back roads from Intercourse. Your reward: a calming drive through seemingly endless cornfields and across one of the county’s 30 covered bridges. At the Strasburg Rail Road, cruise along in a steam engine for the 45-minute trip to Paradise (sorry, it’s only a Pennsylvania town) and back. Take your pick of open-air car or coach, a Victorian-style car that’s heated with a potbelly stove on nippy days.

If you have kids in tow, the sight of a steam train sliding into the depot will likely leave them speechless. And for adults who want to ride without the little ones, the railroad recently launched wine-and-cheese excursions, so you can sip, nibble and ride. Now that’s chugging in style…

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