{"id":300,"date":"2009-08-03T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2013-05-26T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T15:48:14","slug":"strasburg-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/strasburg-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was hot and we decided to get out of town. Jane and Drew came up and we drove to Strasburg PA in Lancaster to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrmuseumpa.org\/\" target=\"blank\">Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania<\/a> and the Strasburg Railroad. Bob has been into model trains since he was little\u2014this led to the model building and set construction he does with his photography. I featured his model trains on one of our <a href=\" http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/holiday-cards\/\">holiday cards<\/a>. A chance to see the <em>BIG BOYS<\/em> has been on the list for a long time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/oilCan.jpg\" alt=\"Oiling the Strasburg train\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oiling the Strasburg train<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>We also stopped at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etrainshop.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Strasburg Train Shop<\/a> which is a very large model shop, had lunch at the little cafe nearby and drove by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcaboosemotel.com\" target=\"blank\">Red Caboose Motel<\/a> where one could stay overnight in a real caboose if one so desired\u2014we didn&#8217;t but it&#8217;s something to see. Nearly 50 refurbished cabooses, all painted with their original colors and logos (we&#8217;re designers so logo&#8217;s are important) set up in the Pennsylvania Dutch country side is a hoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was hot and we decided to get out of town. Jane and Drew came up and we drove to Strasburg PA in Lancaster to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the Strasburg Railroad. Bob has been into model trains since he was little\u2014this led to the model building and set construction he does with&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/strasburg-railroad\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,58],"tags":[48,49,50],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","category-friends","tag-trains","tag-pennsylvania","tag-caboose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}