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Alex:

This brings back great memories! We moved from PA to CA about five years ago. Living about 15 minutes from New Hope was great! My grandson and I would go watch the trains run often. While waiting for the train to return, we would walk down the street to the Dunkin Donuts for a treat then return to the station when the train arrived back from it's run. Thanks for posting!

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Some things we take for granted.  Living only about 45 minutes away from New Hope you'd think I would return often.  Especially with the Black River & Western Railroad just across the river, alittle bit north of Lambertville.  We've ridden the NH&ILRR and have visited the BR&WRR, but haven't taken a ride on it.  

 

WOW what great pictures.  I didn't know the NH&IL was actually running excursions.  We lived outside Doylestown on Almshouse Rd between 87-94 and I worked at the Naval Air Development Center on the corner of Street Road in Warminster.  I crossed the tracks every day on the way to work and home but can't recall ever seeing a train, certainly not steam.  However the area was great as a train collector as there were lots of train shows in the area.

Thanks for the pictures 

Don

Theresa and I went with my sister and her husband, and a friend and his wife. It's a beautiful area, but the ride was a bit pricey for how short it was. I didn't know they had a steam locomotive. We ate at the former station in Lambertville, and walked around town until it was time for our ride. It was a great day!

Hay Alex,

I caught the pics of your B&B show with NH&I R.R. which were great.  I believe they may have changed their name to just New Hope R.R. Your pics & flics puts me back to the days that I was a fireman on #40 (Steam Loco) back 8 years ago. After turning 59, my body couldn't take that kind of physical work (shoveling) any longer and I guess one might say it was the "end of the line". Frank Vopasek or Brian Oxie or Mark Gratten may have been engineer that day and all 3 guy's are great engineers. Frank tells me that they have added another run around track to the line, so they manage to run 3 trains on the same line. I had a great time there and wished that there was more time to continue doing what I did. Thanks Alex for re-kindling some great memories of my passion!

Yes Rich, Ross is an engineer there, usually around Christmas he comes in. Firing for him makes for very "interesting" runs, don't ask me how I know this!

Steam Forever

       John

The NH&I has offered longer rides like to Buckingham Valley, Warminster, and even Lansdale although mostly with diesel power. There were steam runs to Buckingham and Ivyland in the past. Yes, they are kind of expensive and the lot in New Hope charges to park. They now have rides out of Lansdale usually in August and last year they had rides from North Wales as well with 40 at the north end and SEPTA diesel at the south end. Apparently SEPTA is more receptive to hosting excursions than NS and Amtrak are now. NS and Amtrak are basically closed to chartered excursions now.

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