If you’ve been searching for a family activity that doesn’t involve staring at screens, standing in endless lines, or wondering if you should have just stayed home and saved the money, the Lester Rail Trail in Medina, Ohio, is about to become your new favorite discovery.
This is where miniature steam locomotives do real work, pulling real passengers along real tracks through scenery that’s genuinely pleasant, and where the smiles on people’s faces are as authentic as the steam puffing from the engines.
Now, before going any further, time to address the elephant in the room, or rather, the train on the track.
When someone says “miniature train,” your brain probably conjures up images of those sad little rides at the mall where kids sit in plastic cars that go around in a circle for ninety seconds while parents wonder if it was really worth the five bucks…