EBT is about an hour southeast of Altoona.

In Altoona is the Railroader's Memorial Museum, an excellent new interprative museum. Entry there also gives you a ticket to The Great Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad just west of town.

Further west are the Alleghany Portage Railroad Museum (where they used to haul canal boats up inclines on railroad cars) and the Johnstown Flood museums, one in Johnstown and one at the broken dam (you can walk out on the dam). The U.S. Hotel in Hollidaysburg offers an excellent fine dining experience.

On 22 headed east from Altoona just before you get to Mount Union stop at Millers before 11:00 AM for a fine breakfast buffet. You will also pass Sweigarts Auto Museum which has an excellent collection of old toys.

In Robertsdale (the south end of the EBT) the Friends of the EBT have a small museum in the depot (may only be open on Columbus day weekend) and a couple of blocks east of there is an old theatre which houses the Low Overhead Coal Mining Museum. The road to Robertsdale is a well paved 2 lane that twists and turns over the local ridges.