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Milk, Honey & Easter Bunny

The Middletown & Hummelstown advertises itself as The Milk & Honey Line. Last sunday, Kris, Seamus & I, called in to Middletown, Pa., to see the railroad’s annual Easter Bunny Express.

This consisted of center-cab GE 65-ton diesel number 2 hauling a pair of former Lackawanna multiple unit trailers. This certainly made for a colorful consist.

It had been an overcast morning, but at about 1145 the sun peaked through the clouds. I made this view using my Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens. This was set to 36mm, f8.0 at 1/640th of a second at 100 ISO.

The Middletown & Hummelstown has Easter Bunny Expresses scheduled for next weekend too, with trains on Friday April 18th and Saturday April 19th. https://www.mhrailroad.com/special-event-schedule/

Dual Mode GENESIS along the Hudson

GE’s dual mode P32DM-AC is a highly specialized locomotive model built during the mid-1990s for Amtrak and Metro North.

Similar in appearance to the more common P42 employed by Amtrak and VIA Rail in passenger service across the United States and Canada, the P32DM-AC dual mode variation was designed to draw current from third rail when operating on electrified lines in New York City.

Kris and I had the opportunity to watch these engines race up and down the Hudson from our vantage point at Mine Dock Park.

I exposed these photos using my Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm lens. I’ve enlarged a few photos to get a larger view of the GE diesels.

Amtrak P32DM-AC number 707 leads train 235 near Manitou, NY.
Enlarged version of the top photo.
Metro-North 234 leads train 839 toward Poughkeepsie.
Metro-North 234 near Manitou, NY.
Metro-North 227 works at the back of Grand Central bound train from Poughkeepsie.
Metro-North 227 works at the back of Grand Central bound train from Poughkeepsie.

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Serendipity at Stewartstown

Yesterday, Kris and I were wandering around southern Pennsylvania on an afternoon drive. We crossed the Susquehanna and followed back roads across farm field and through villages.

I saw a highway sign that read, “Stewartstown 7 [miles]”, and so we drove there.

Meandering into the village, I told Kris about how there used to be a tourist railway at Stewartstown. I was wondered if the tracks were still in place . . . and then . . . Lo and Behold, there was a 44-ton diesel with its headlight lit and passengers boarding an Reading Company coach at the old station.

I dare say I was flummoxed!

We went out along the line, and I set up in a forest. After a short while, I heard the bark of an airhorn, and the 44-ton diesel leading the short excursion came around the bend. It was like a dream from another time!

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