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Several posts running on this subject, but for some reason I can't "reply". (could not "post" yesterday, so don't know if it is me or the forum). I started visiting SE Pa. and Harrisburg area for the car shows in 1970, and then found York Train Meet in 1985, so have found a few things of interest in the area. The Adamstown antique markets I have in times past walked through and even set up in, but not lately. (I was unfamiliar with the "Green Dragon") I have long visited the antique malls west on 30 to Gettysburg and beyond, but lately, they have suffered the dwindling, and even closing, that has affected the York train open shows. Since there is always interest in finding good food, on a couple of the last trips we found the "Shady Maple Smorgasbord", a huge, and not inexpensive pig-out sorta out in the boonies north of Lancaster near the intersection of 23 and 897. We also found that Lancaster has a Golden Corral, which is a daily pig-out, including breakfast on weekends, on the "main drag" that is the U.S. 30 bypass around Lancaster. There are a number of tourist-trap Amish-themed restaurants around Lancaster, but these two are worth your money. This year, for the spring, I got in practice for walking the halls by hiking the acres at the Longwood Gardens. That was her trip, but she got blisters, so did not walk the York halls. Be prepared for an excursion, as that is not a walk around the block, and go in the spring, when flowers are blooming. Our previous trip was during fall York, and not much was in bloom. Longwood is not far east of Lancaster. The Lancaster area and SE Pa. has a LOT of covered bridges, and when the open shows have little of interest in the morning, I hunt and photograph those in the afternoons. Pa. has some handouts mapping those, but the area is also full of old water mills, but, for some reason, I have not found map for them. There are a lot of other historical sites in this, an early settled area of the country.
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Originally Posted by eddie g:

On Wednesday we went to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, had lunch at the CheeseCake Factory & of coarse had cheese cake.

Eddie, 

Lucky you went on Wednesday to the Harbor, a lot of trouble there on the weekend. Poor saps at the Orioles game were told to stay in the stadium.

The inner harbor is a great place to tour, also Fort Mchenry which is nearby.

Originally Posted by Farmer_Bill:

This time we drove up to Northumberland and visited the North Shore Railroad and picked up a calendar, a hat, and a 30th Anniversary medallion.  

 

 

 

Weaver Models is just a wee bit north of the North Shore engine house, and walk in tours are welcome. Just south of the engine house is the North Street Station Restaurant. It's a converted station with a nice view of the train yard. 

Don

The "Steam Into History" train is worth a trip all by itself. There are Civil War re-enactors that tell the history of the area, and there are special rides featuring everything from train robbers to (last week) the Lincoln Funeral Train. I live a mile from the Station and everybody in New Freedom PA seems to get a big kick out of hearing that whistle blow several times a day.

 

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