The train departed Paradise for Strasburg.
The mainline between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Never a train when you want one!
The first farm as we started the trip back.
Strasburg 90 smoking it up.
Another corn farm.
Two more farms.
I love countrysides where farming is taking place.
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Another farm.
This area is prime farmland.
There are open farmlands between each house.
Two more farms.
Trees dot the landscape.
Yet another farm.
Another rural view.
The siding at the picnic grounds. When two trains are run, this is where they always meet.
Beautiful!
The siding.
A large Amish group detrained for a picnic at the picnic grounds and would return to Strasburg on the next train.
The train takes the only good curve where a picture of it curving is possible.
Their corn maze was going to open on July 3, 2010.
The corn maze area.
The train completing that great curve.
The Corn Maze.
Farms off in the distance.
A big tree by this farm house.
This unique Pennsylvania landscape.
More farms.
A tractor pulled riders from the Red Caboose Motel.
A large Amish farm as we passed the Red Caboose Motel.
The last farm before arriving at Strasburg.
Approaching the Strasburg shop complex.
Pennsylvania Railroad 44 ton switcher 9331.
Strasburg snow plough 66, ex. Wellsville, Addison & Galeton Railroad, ex. Baltimore and Ohio, nee Buffalo and Susquehanna built by Russell in 1902.
The train had returned us to the Strasburg station. It had been a fantastic trip on the Strasburg but it was now 11:50 AM and I had a 1:30 PM train to catch in Wilmington for home, so I had better get going!
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