A good view down the station area. Being a weekday, with school still in session, we have the place pretty empty and can see what the buildings, etc. are like. Interesting thing about this rail road is that most of the buildings are from the old Pennsylvania RR and Reading RR if I'm remembering correctly. The far end of the picture (center) is a modern engine maintenance and restoration facility. The clerestory cars to the left are from several different railroads and have been, or are being, restored. It appears that Strasburg RR is settling on a uniform Brunswick Red livery for the passenger cars. The trackbed has the telltale oil splashes along the rails which spells out: Steam engines at work here. Diesels would have oil drips down the center of the trackbed. That is one taksan oki (really big) water tower which looks a bit out of proportion for the facilities, but what the hey? It works and looks grand. Well le't look around a bit before boarding the train which hasn't quite arrived yet. The trip in and out is only 45 minutes and this is followed by about 15 minutes of end-running the engine. Always something to see. (Zoom, I'm keeping these as large as possible for R posting.) Enjoy; thanks for viewing.