Sometimes you just stumble onto something cool.

We were driving north on Highway 13 in Virginia when Kris said, “Let’s take a left here.”

“OK.”

So we did, and we drove into the village of Cape Charles, where we found an unlikely railroad museum.

Among other things, it featured a replica ball signal—illustrating the early use of such hardware on the Delmarva Peninsula—a Bay Coast GP10 (an ex–Illinois Central Gulf Paducah rebuild), plus a selection of railcars. All are static displays.

We also discovered the Cape Charles Brewing Company, a beach, and vestiges of the old Pennsylvania Railroad, which at one time operated Chesapeake Bay car floats from the local harbor.

On the downside, we found that, apart from the museum, there’s not much railroad remaining on the Delmarva Peninsula in Virginia.

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