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Rare Mileage Run April 2024

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Rare Mileage Run April 2024

  by Jeff Smith
 
Trains.com has a write-up of a recent excursion that covered the entire length: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews ... e-mileage/
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. — For the first time in decades, a passenger train Saturday (April 20, 2024) covered the full length of Reading & Northern Railroad’s Mahanoy & Shamokin Branch, carrying 194 riders aboard a trio of Budd Co. Rail Diesel Cars.

Sponsored by the affiliated Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and the Railroad Historians of the Lehigh Valley, the Railroad Explorer 4 trip sold out within a week of its announcement in February (See “Rare-mileage trip to Mount Carmel, Pa., slated …,” Trains News Wire, Feb. 7, 2024).
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