The video Take a Roanoke, Virginia, USA, Train Vacation Today! HD! by VARP member Dan Peacock says that anyone anywhere in the world can now easily access Roanoke, Virginia, USA, even without a car, and enjoy a train vacation that few cities can match:

1. Amtrak rail connector bus access from three Washington, DC, area airports, passing through historic Virginia cities and towns (Manassas, Culpeper, Charlottesville, Lynchburg) and viewing the Blue Ridge Mountains
2. Virginia’s Official Museum of Transportation with huge steam engines
3. The O. Winston Link Museum with unmatched steam era portraits
4. A covered pedestrian overpass for freight train viewing
5. The beautiful Tudor-style and railroad-built Hotel Roanoke
6. Train excursions in November to points in Virginia, West Virginia, or North Carolina
7. The former Norfolk and Western passenger station
8. A city still manufacturing rail cars

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