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Now that's definitely a train car I'd like to visit!

  The Strasburg Rail Road, which bills itself as the “Rail Road to Paradise” has added a less-heavenly attraction to its steam-train rides through the Pennsylvania  countryside  near Lancaster.   Using a dozen vintage...

  Memories of a youth not as mis-spent as I might wish flooded back in this darkened pinball arcade, with flashing lights, dinging bells and other sounds drawing me in...but sadly, not to a disreputable place that spells Trouble with a T: No,...

Does bring back memories, PHeymont. I recalling some of these games in your photos consuming significant quantities of quarters in my youth.

Quarters! When I started out wasting my allowance, the machines took nickels and dimes! (and they did take them!) One interesting fact I picked up at the museum: When first introduced, the machines had no flippers, and therefore no control by the player of what was happening. Therefore, numbers of states and cities rules, it was a game of chance, and illegal. Once the flippers were added, it became a game of skill, and legal—although it took NYC many years to change its rules.