Expanded tours of the East Broad Top Railroad shops, roundhouse, and archives will be offered for the first time in 2024, the non-profit EBT Foundation, Inc., has announced.

The narrow-gauge central Pennsylvania steam preservation railroad, a National Historic Landmark, will open new opportunities besides its existing one-hour tour of its circa-1910 shop complex here. The three additions for visitors are a 3-hour intensive tour of the shops, a 1-hour tour of the roundhouse, and a 1-hour tour of the company archives, which are housed in three vaults contained in the two-story office and passenger station here.

Yea, but they probably don't even allow smoking in the archives, so what's the point?

Yup, and why go to a gallery if you can't touch the art.

Many years ago I went to the Walker in Mpls and stood too close close to what I genuinely thought was an empty museum brochure metal rack. A dead ringer for a cheap, plated retail store fixture of the time.

A disembodied male voice from a loudspeaker up in the high ceiling briskly admonished me to stay further back from the "exhibit."

To this day I am still not sure if it was actually an art object or some bored employee was having fun "greening" an obvious yokel

A disembodied male voice from a loudspeaker up in the high ceiling briskly admonished me to stay further back from the "exhibit."

A few seconds later, he looked up to find himself surrounded by security guards. He continued with his visit, but noted that a security guard followed him wherever he went in the building for the rest of the day.

Retirement can bring a lot of pithy observations out of people.