Train places to visit near Sesame Place (Langhorne, PA)

[darianj]

Hello all,

My wife and I will be taking my son to Sesame Place in Langhorne, PA this summer.  Can anyone suggest any train related museums or attractions near there?

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Sesame Place is a great place to take kids! I took my kids two years in a row!I recomend breakfast with the characters.

Anyway, TRAINS!

You should take a ride over to Stasburg. It is about one hour to the west. It is very close to Lancaster.  In Strasburg, you have the Strasburg Railroad (great 45 minute excursion).

Also, The Choo Choo Barn. It's a 1,700 square foot miniature O guage layout of Lancaster county. It has more than 135 animated and automated figures and vehicles. (really, Really cool!)

And there is the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. It has over a hundred engines and rolling stock. (Really cool too!!)

Great vacation!! I want to go back. 

All of these attractions are within 10 min of each other!

Almost forgot the TCA toy train museum!!!!!!!!!!!!is right down the street from Choo Choo Barn!!

[mdm08033]

You should check out the New Hope Ivyland Railway.  It's about 16 miles/20 minutes from Sesame Place according to Google Maps.  Downtown New Hope is a artsy/touristy neighborhood on the banks of the Delaware river. www.newhopepa.com You will find more shopping and diversions right across the bridge in Lambertville, New Jersey.

Clipped from the website,

Relax as you travel through the rolling hills and valleys of historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and experience first hand the sights, sounds and romance of the Golden Era of Steam Railroading.

Climb aboard the New Hope & Ivyland passenger train and travel into a scene from the past. Relax and leave your cares behind as you journey into history, learning what rail travel was like for your parents, grand parents and great-grand parents. Behold the continuously changing view as the train traverses through the rolling hills and valleys of historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Enjoy our restored 1920s vintage passenger coaches, antique bar car, the authentic steam locomotive or one of our historic diesel locomotives. The train will take you along the same historic route that was filmed in the 1914 movie series Perils of Pauline. You can purchase your tickets in the original witch's hat New Hope train station, which was once the location of the railroad telegraph operator who sent and received all messages for the town of New Hope, PA. This building has been in operation since 1891.

Passengers for regular excursion trains may board either at New Hope or at Lahaska Station, (1 mile east of US 202 on Street Road, Lahaska, PA). Passengers may get off at either station and take a later train back to their originating station

www.newhoperailroad.com/maps-directions.cfm

Have a good time,

Michael in Haddonfield 

 

[anjdevil2]

And just a little further up river, in Flemington the Black River & Western RR runs tours and regular service.  Some other fun stuff in Flemington to do also.

www.brwrr.com

www.frenchtowner.com

www.flemington-nj.com 

[phillyreading]

Strasburg would be the best place for trains.  Another good place for real locomotives is Scranton PA, Steamtown with a variety of steam locomotives, they even have one or two that run.   A little more on the east side of PA on I-78 is Roadside America in Shartlesville PA just west of Hamburg PA.

Lee F.