Otherwise, the line wanders through the Old Older Amish farms. Probably made sense in the day of the John Bull, but certainly not now. In fact, the proposed High Speed Rail project wanted to bypass this area. Seeing how successful the Amish have been in preventing US-30 from being completed as an expressway from Lancaster to Coatesville, I doubt a project like this could be built, either. Place, where the Strasburg joins.
Gap is the highest point on the main line between Philadelphia and Harrisburg.