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Entry: Middletown-Hummelstown Railroad, Pennsylvania, USA - A673012
Author: Jimi X - U53353

Enough already!

I've been working on this off and on (mostly off) for too long. The kids and I just took another ride on this train yesterday, so I got motivated to wrap it up.

Here it is in all its glory (or something ).



- Jimi X

Hey Jimi,

Another great entry on the Kystone State (I will get there one day - promise).

Just one suggestion - inthe list starting with the Easter Bunny express, we normally embolden the subject before the hyphen. So the GuideML would look like:

Easter Bunny Express - The Easter Bunny rides the train, poses for photos with youngsters and passes out candy.

But other than that really *tiny* point, nothing.

Also, as an aside, how about an entry on Jim Thorpe, PA - the man and the town?

Hi Jimi!

Nice. I'm pleased you got a link in to Thomas the Tank Engine. We go to a couple of steam railways who do Thomas the Tank Engine days, and they're generally really good fun. Ours have the fat controller as MC and the engines do stuff - like Diesel being naughty and stealing trucks!

Did you say how long the line was?

Ashley: I considered making them bold, but balked for some reason. Changes coming...

And as for Jim Thorpe, I'll write about the man, but not the town. It's a really creepy story that I'll only divulge if you ask sweetly.

ZSF: It's 11 miles. If it's not in there, I'll add it now.



- X

Oh divulge, please

I'll even give you my ribbon

The town fathers of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk in Pennsylvania's 'coal regions' figured a good way to boost tourism would be to find a gimmick.

So they purchased the dead body of Jim Thorpe and erected a memorial to him outside of town and renamed the two towns 'Jim Thorpe'. He had never visited the place (except in death), but his interment there prompted a tourist boom that continues to this day...

Eeuuuwww!

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- X