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Pennsylvania E8s to lead rare mileage excursion
Jeff, quite simply “rare mileage” refers to routes not available on scheduled passenger routes. Those rare mileage routes may have seen passenger trains at one time but now are limited to freight only, may be rarely used branches or may be scheduled for abandonment or removal. The trip in this case will be using part of Amtrak’s North East Corridor to reach Norfolk Southern’s freight-only trackage between Perryville, MD and Harrisburg, PA.
I don’t understand the rare mileage description.
Rare mileage usually means passenger trains traversing routes that are freight only (usually)
The rare mileage description refers to the fact the train will travel over some trackage that doesnot normally see passenger service. The stretches from Perryville, MD to Marysville, PA and from Middletown, (Royalton) PA back to Perryville, MD do not currently have passenger service.
Hi Jeff,
The “rare mileage” refers to the fact that much of trip - on the Port Road for example, is on freight only track you would not normally able to ride. For folks who like to ride lines that don’t have regular passenger service refer to this as “rare mileage.” Hope that helps.
my son and i rode the perryville line back in 1976. consist was one GG-1 and one coach. fare was included in our USA railpasses, 10,000 miles of riding for $225 total!
JEFF it means that this is a chartered passenger train excursion, which anyone can ride, on a route that otherwise only sees freight traffic.
Jeff, I expect it has to do with running over the “freight-only” segments. Often when these excursion runs are planned they try to get access to run over trackage that normally doesn’t see passenger service.
This sounds like a great trip.
As a young boy I could see and the mighty
E-44 ((BRICKS)) on the pull up the port road
from the other side of the river at Peach Bottom.
Now I may finaly get to ride the port road.
I rode the Port Road on a PRR detour in the late 60s. In those days there was passenger service east from Pgh to Harrisburg, then down the Northern Central (Harrisburg to Balt via York, now abandoned south of the Mason-Dixon Line) to Balt and Wash. My train was detoured over the Port Road, think due to a wreck.
I never got to ride the Northern Central.
Did Mr. Levin retain the original twin V-12 567B configuration or did he turn them into GP-38’s internally as UP did to their E9’s?
Why must Levin have these 2 to begin with?He must have deeeeeep pockets to afford things like these.