PRSLHS Tours If you want to go on a future PRSLHS Tour, you must join us first. It is free to join for the foreseeable future. The information for future tours is not listed on a page that is publicly linked to the website. PRSLHS tours are for members only. On Sunday July 29, 2007 the PRSLHS was treated to a great tour at the SMS Railroad in the Pureland Industrial Center in Bridgeport NJ.

We arrived at about 9:00 AM and loaded up the SMS transfer caboose with everything needed for a rolling Caboose Barbeque. It is the LAST STAND of a live all Baldwin Power roster in the United States still making a living 50+ years after they were built. We went along for the ride and had a front row seat in the caboose while SMS performed their regular switching duties. We were a part of a real crew for a day! The tour was also the day before my 45^th birthday so I had a most unique rolling caboose party! The SMS crew could not do enough for us. Every little detail was done with a smile. Jim Boylan came prepared with a shirt from the original PRSLHS 20 years ago! We rolled in from the third and final switching run at about 2:30. We would like to publicly thank Brian Murray and his crew for all of their wonderful hospitality. It is sincerely appreciated!! We have already been invited back for another trip possibly in the fall.

A light but steady rain fell for most of the day but that did not stop us from having an excellent time. I did not like taking my camera out in the rain but got some shots anyway. Some of the shots were taken with a rain drop or 2 on the lens. It just could not be avoided. Other members on the tour will have their photos featured here as well. My wife Donna went along for most of the day. We had 3 rounds of switching with a break for lunch.

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Getting Started Donna & John Campanelli Tom Moran & Brian Murray

Meeting Conrail on the Mainline Picking Up a Late Arrival A Shirt From the Original PRSLHS!

A Motley Crew! Out On The SMS Mainline Damsel Donna

Brian Murray & John Campanelli Tom Moran Photo Runby 1

Photo Runby 2 Photo Runby 3 Switching Run #2

Barbeque Lou McCall One Of Our Locos Old FM Switcher

Me In The AS616 The End of A Great Day The Big 4 5 Cake

All Photos are by Bill Lane

Note the raindrop streaks in Photo Runby 3

Video

This is a WMV file which opens for me in Windows Media Player. You should not try to view the video unless you are on high speed internet. It is a 27 MB and may take a few minutes to download into a temp file. It is a bit shaky in the middle of the last clip at full zoom because I hand held the camera.

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Cape My Seashore Lines

On November 3, 2007 we went for a ride on the Cape May Seashore Lines from Richland to Tuckahoe.

The weather could have been better but the ride was great.

Updated 4-19-08

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Resuscitated from a 20 year nap on 1-25-07