I just found out about the above (I’m not involved with it) and thought there may be at least a few members here who might be interested. This is over most of the northern portion of the former Reading Railroad’s Perkiomen Branch, and apparently includes the circa 1875 Dillinger Tunnel (no relation to the famous criminal, that I know of), which runs under the Pennsylvania Turnpike - the reported length of the Tunnel on the Emmaus link below range from 1,798 ft. to 3/4 mile, so who knows . . .[%-)]
Notably, the trips depart from the northern end at Emmaus on Sat./ Sun. Oct. 3 and 4, but from the other/ southern end at Pennsburg on Sat./ Sun. Oct. 10 and 11. Both boroughs - that’s Pennsylvania-talk for ‘small town’ - are about 5 miles/ 10 minutes from the nearest exits off of I-476, the NorthEast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as well as other major roads, and so are easy to reach. And the deciduous foliage in between will likely just be starting to change to its fall splendor colors about then. But only E
Our home State being Pennsylvania, that town is a new one on me…My small atlas here at the desk doesn’t list it but I have a larger one here and plenty of maps so we’ll look to see just where that is…
Edit: Oops…just found Pennsburg.
And just north of Pennsburg is the Borough / small town of East Greenville, through which the trains from Pennsburg will run. As you now know, Quentin, East Greenville is a long, long ways from the city of Greenville, PA, but about 25 years ago at least 1 truck driver (not me !) with a cargo of new railroad ties had the misfortune of finding that out the hard way - it’s about 336 miles and 6 hours, per Google Maps. [:-^]
Paul:
About 59 years ago…I had a chance to take my father back in the general area of Allentown to see if we could find his sizeable stone house his family owned at the time…And I now really don’t remember just where it was. But dad had not been back since he was a youngster and at that time he would have been 53. {Our home then was in Somerset Co.}
I can’t remember any of the route numbers we were on to find it, but remember dad looking for where an electric interurban ran near the house…and we actually did find the ROW…! And the house. Dad spotted the big old stone house with very thick walls and approached it and talked to the residents, told his story and they took him all thru the inside to look at it…What an experience that was to him. But the clue of us finding the exact spot was that old interurban ROW…Quite an experience for us all. Especially dad.
OK, this may be a little [#offtopic] . . . but a lot of us are interested in local and family history and geneaology type matters as well, and what follows is pretty generally applicable in the eastern parts of the U.S., and Pennsylvania in particular:
Quentin - If you’re interested, PM me with the exact (or pretty close) first and last names of your family members that would have been the likely legal owners of that house - such as on the recorded Deed - and some other details such as the time frame, and county, or even a nearby town or other landmark that you may recall, there’s a good to excellent chance that I’ll be able to locate the house, tell you whether it’s still there or what is now there instead, and perhaps provide a copy of the Deed from back then. Research like this is part of what I do for a living, and it’s usually much easier than the ‘needle in a haystack’ endeavor that some people perceive it to be, as you’ll see below.
Paul:
Let me see what data I can find…Thanks.