Steaming Into History is a non-profit organization that runs a replica Cival War era steam locomotive in New Freedom, Pennysylvania. Learn more about them here.

The short of it is that you ride on this super cool old train for an hour trip to a Christmas tree farm. Once you arrive at the destination there’s horse drawn carraiges waiting to take you from the train stop to the Christmas tree farm. You cut your tree down, pay, grab a hot chocolate and head back to the train.

It’s a really nice day for the family and it’s looking like it’s going to become a tradition for us. We were even able to take my mom this year! Here’s photos from last years trip, and photos from todays trip are below.

Great way to cap off a fantastic Thanksgiving wekeend. 🙂

Simon is super excited!

Jen is super focused.

Moms first train ride!

Arty Simon shot.

Simon and Pop.

Simon and Pop

Simon telling Santa that the coffee shop is out of snicker doodle cookies

The giant Christmas tree hill

View from the top!

My heart and soul. 🙂

Couldn’t find a tree we wanted

Headed back down…

me cutting down a tree, at the bottom of the hill!

Hot chocolate station!

Nothing beats an elf with a flute playing the Peanuts theme song on a Civil War era steam train!