There’s something magical about steam locomotives that makes grown adults giggle like kids on Christmas morning, and the Strasburg Rail Road in Ronks, Pennsylvania delivers that magic by the coal-shovelful.
This isn’t just any train ride, it’s America’s oldest continuously operating railroad, and it’s been chugging through Lancaster County’s gorgeous farmland since way back when your great-great-grandparents thought automobiles were a passing fad.
You know what’s funny about living in the modern world?
We’ve got cars that can practically drive themselves, phones that know more about us than our therapists, and yet there’s something absolutely thrilling about climbing aboard a massive iron beast that runs on steam, coal, and the dreams of railway enthusiasts everywhere…