Ma and Pa RR roadname?

I thought short line still exist, no?

Ma&Pa on O Guage posted:

Hello all,

I was wondering if by any chance any of you members have any MTH Maryland & Pennsylvania items and would be interested in selling them.  Once upon a time, I had all of the MTH Ma & Pa items that were available at the time but had to sell them due to hard times.  I am now able to build my collection back up and this is one of the roadnames that I loved the most and cannot seem to find anywhere.  Thank you very much.

Justin

 

If you have not done so already, check out e bay.  There are some nice piece of MTH Ma & Pa listed from time to time.  I am a collector/operator of Ma & Pa and have purchased several pieces of rolling stock ( trailer on flatcar, 4 bay hoppers, and a boxcar ) all off the bay.  I did purchase an SW1 switcher and caboose ( MA & PA ) brand new from dealers ( one of witch advertises here on the Forum ).  Keep checking e bay Ma & PA will turn up  for you ... be persistent!

Good luck!

If you are in Md. close to I-83 and can run up to Shrewsbury over the Pa. line, go east from Shrewsbury paralleling the Ma&Pa roadbed and wend your way through a town with a Ma&Pa station and some equipt. to another station at Muddy Creek Forks,  an interesting tiny one store town.  (store was the station) Or hit it on the way to/from York.  Is that road in York now called "York Rail", or something other than Ma & Pa?

Silver Lake posted:

Yes there has been in the past mostly MTH but Lionel made a Ma and Pa 9700 series boxcar in the MPC days. There was also a Lionel GP9 shell in York Rail scheme from Lionel. Yorkrail was a successor.

Lionel also did a York Rail powered GP-9 for the TCA, the same year the York Rail shell was offered.  Different road numbers on the shell and powered units.

colorado hirailer posted:

If you are in Md. close to I-83 and can run up to Shrewsbury over the Pa. line, go east from Shrewsbury paralleling the Ma&Pa roadbed and wend your way through a town with a Ma&Pa station and some equipt. to another station at Muddy Creek Forks,  an interesting tiny one store town.  (store was the station) Or hit it on the way to/from York.  Is that road in York now called "York Rail", or something other than Ma & Pa?

You are partially right.  When you go east out of Shrewsbury that is the Stewartstown Railroad that you are running along side until you get into Stewartstown.  The station in Stewartstown is where the Stewartstown has their equipment.  If you go farther east to Muddy Creek Forks, that is where the Ma & Pa Historical Society has their equipment and village.

When Emons owned the Ma & Pa, they were non-union and Yorkrail was union.  Now that GW owns it, I believe it is all one.

Gene Anstine

I understand that the Stewartstown right of way is being rebuilt with intentions of connecting to "Steam in to History." Gene A. - do you know if that is happening?

You can google "ma and pa railroad" and receive information on both the M&P Historical Society and the M&P Preservation Society. A good friend was the president of the preservation group for many years and they are the owners of the Muddy Creeks Fork station, town, and about 8 miles of original M&P trackage where the public can take a "speeder" ride.

The Forest Hill station still stands and is now a hobby shop owned by a TCA member who carries Ma and Pa 3 rail items.

The Torrey C. Brown (NCR) trail is actually on the footprint of the Northern Central Railroad, not the Ma and Pa.