Just before Thanksgiving 2001, I was able to visit yet another one of those places I've been wanting to get to all my life, Roadside America, in Shartlesville, PA.  Roadside America bills itself as "The World's Greatest Indoor Miniature Village".  It is definitely impressive, a very large, highly detailed O-gauge model railroad featuring Lionel trains and accessories as well as hundreds of buildings, streets, vehicles, you name it!

While walking around the display, I took a few pictures.  I call this one "Is it real or a model"?  You guess.

Don't laugh when you read this--I shot this picture from about 65 feet away!

Here's my favorite picture from Roadside America. 

It took me about 20 minutes to capture the passenger streamliner as it came across the bridge--my camera's eye kept jumping back and forth in and out of focus when it was trying to catch the train using the flash I was bouncing off the ceiling.  Finally, I got the picture as it went across the bridge.