{"id":41556,"date":"2025-04-16T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41556"},"modified":"2025-04-14T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:08:26","slug":"milk-honey-easter-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/milk-honey-easter-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk, Honey &#038; Easter Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Middletown &amp; Hummelstown advertises itself as The Milk &amp; Honey Line. Last sunday, Kris, Seamus &amp; I, called in to Middletown, Pa., to see the railroad&#8217;s annual <em>Easter Bunny Express.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" data-attachment-id=\"41557\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/milk-honey-easter-bunny\/20250413-middletown_hummelstown_rr_at-middletown_pa_briansolomon_dsc_3621\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?fit=2048%2C1154\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1154\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 7_2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1744558939&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;36&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?fit=709%2C400\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?fit=474%2C267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?resize=474%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?resize=709%2C400 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?resize=1022%2C576 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?resize=205%2C116 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?resize=1536%2C866 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250413-Middletown_Hummelstown_RR_at-Middletown_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_3621.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middletown &amp; Hummelstown has<em> Easter Bunny Expresses<\/em> scheduled for next weekend too, with trains on Friday April 18th and Saturday April 19th. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhrailroad.com\/special-event-schedule\/\">https:\/\/www.mhrailroad.com\/special-event-schedule\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middletown &#038; Hummelstown advertises itself as The Milk &#038; Honey Line. 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