The Red Caboose Motel - Strasburg, PA.

Snapped a few pictures at Railroad Museum of PA, across the street from the Strasburg Rail Road.  (Thanks to Kelly Anderson for the correction)

Thanks for sharing. I have never been there but know people that have and they stated they enjoyed their stay there.

Many a weekend we slept in one of those when our boys were small. We all got a kick out of it.

 

Strasburg is a fun place!

Wow its still there?... I think my Dad, nephews, Uncle, and I stayed there back in 1975...

Awesome!  I knew it was the Museum side, but honestly didn't realize it was separate.  Thanks for letting me know.  I'll correct my post so I'm not spreading confusion.

There are several RR related places to visit in that same area. The PA RR museum, Strasburg RR, Red Caboose motel and Restaurant, and the Choo-Choo Barn layout and Hobby shop just around the corner on RT 721 I think that's the rt number. You'll have a blast discovering all the other things to see and do in the greater Lancaster area. 

Don

No visit to Strasburg is complete without a visit to the Choo Choo Barn! They have a really nice video on DVD for sale there, produced by some guy at OGR...

 

If you stop in, tell owner Tom Groff I said hello!

Everywhere I looked there was something train related.  www.etrainshop.com is probably the hobby shop you are referring to.  Right aside of the Red Caboose Motel there is The National Toy Train Museum www.nttmuseum.org  I'm just getting serious about the Hobby, but always loved trains.  Guess this was a good area to move to.

FYI Hardware, welcome to the area [though I live outside of Philly].

The Natiuonal Toy Train Museum is free for TCA Members (if you are one) and free Wendsday of Spring and Fall York week (if not a member). Those Wendsdays four or five of the train producers (Lionel, MTH, etc.) talk about their products.

 

Enjoy the area. 

Plus twice a year, there's York, just 30 miles away!

 

Welcome to the Forum.

 

Bill

Stayed there several years go-nice and lots to see.

I have been there several times love it there

There is also the Strasburg Station Hobby shop in one of the outlet centers near Lancaster. If you're a sportsman, Lancaster Archery is a must see. Check out the Green Dragon in Ephrata on Fridays, and there is a flea market in Manheim right off rt 72. Several volunteer fire companies have Mud Sales which are a lot of fun.

Don

OK, I'll ask.

 

What's a Mud Sale?

 

Ed

They are auctions of all kinds of tools, housewares, equipment, crafts, and collectibles. The term Mud Sale comes from the fields where they're held that tend to get muddy after rain. Many are held in March and April. 

Don

The caboose motel is O.K. for kids, but if you are on a budget you can find cheaper lodgings. I stayed there many years ago.

And three times a year, there is the Eastern O Scalers meet at the Strasburg Fire Station. Next one is scheduled for August 8, 2015, 9 am to 1 pm. 

 

Dan Weinhold,

Lancaster, PA.

That wedding was being filmed for the TV show My Big Fat American Gypsy wedding. It will be broadcast in February next year.

 

Planning our wedding, my fiance suggested we stay in The Red Caboose Motel during our honeymoon. I kissed her. Last year she retired, and she found the receipt for our caboose. We took it there, and we asked to stay there again for our 30th anniversary. The cabooses had been repainted and renumbered, but the General Manager tracked down our caboose and we celebrated our 30th anniversary there.

 

 

The food in the dining car (a refurbished Pennsylvania Railroad P70 coach) is superb.

 

I highly recommend a trip to New Freedom, about 6 miles west of Exit 4 on I-83 (Shrewsbury). This replica of a Civil War era 4-4-0 rolled out of [David] Kloke Locomotive Works in May, 2013. The Reader Railroad in Arkansas built wooden passenger cars for her that summer. This train runs on the historic Northern Central Railway between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, where President Abraham Lincoln changed trains when he delivered his Gettysburg Address. Here is the link to schedules, fares and special events.

 

 

 

Hanover Junction. The curve in the foreground is the remnant of the branch to Hanover and to Gettysburg.

 

 

Vicki Gemmill took this photo in December, 2013

Reading Fan,

   That snow picture of old 17 is fantastic!

PCRR/Dave

ReadingFan, that picture belongs on the front of a Christmas card. Love it.

Last time I was at the Red Caboose Motel was 1985 I believe. I got to see 1223 and 7002 running on Strasburg, pulling the bright red and yellow coaches (now they are all a darker shade of red) as well as 90 and 31. The cabooses used to be all red. I wonder why SRR doesn't have a flag stop at the motel, and let people get on or off there instead of driving over to the station. A stop like Groff's Grove in both directions. But then the SRR would have to have a ticket booth there so that people could pay, or people could pay the conductor once on board. There's supposed to be a PRR 4-6-0 running at Strasburg sometime, it's from Long Island, not the RRMoPA.