{"id":37647,"date":"2023-11-19T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37647"},"modified":"2023-11-15T22:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:20:32","slug":"visit-to-the-middletown-hummelstown-with-wayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/visit-to-the-middletown-hummelstown-with-wayne\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to the Middletown &#038; Hummelstown with Wayne."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several weeks back, our friend Wayne Duffett had business on Pennsylvania&#8217;s Middletown &amp; Hummelstown Railroad, a short line that operates a short segment of the former Reading Company. Wayne posed with the railroad&#8217;s vintage GE 65 ton diesel number 2. 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