A week after I tagged along with volunteers releasing young trout into York County creeks, I returned to ride the trout train.
Yes. An actual train.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Jeremy VanSickle of Dover carries out a bucket of trout from the motor-car train, where volunteers tended to five barrels containing 500 trout as part of the preseason live-release program on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. A motor-car train on almost four miles of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line in Chanceford Township was put to use to release trout in parts of the north branch of Muddy Creek that are otherwise inaccessible by public roads.
On actual tracks.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. The motor-car train, operated by Terry Smith of Yorkana, is maintained by the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Preservation Society. The railroad, nicknamed the "Ma and Pa," ran between York and Baltimore from 1901 to the 1950s. The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Preservation Society also maintains almost four miles of original track between Muddy Creek Forks and Laurel in Chanceford Township.
With 500 fish.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Joe and Jeremy VanSickle of Dover carefully transfer young trout into one of five water barrels standing on a platform car in a motor-car train in Chanceford Township on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. About a dozen volunteers released the 500 young trout throughout almost four miles of the north branch of Muddy Creek by taking a motor-car train on the remnants of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line between High Rock and Laurel.
It was a really pleasant way to start the day.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Jerry Eberly of Winterstown and Tim Gladfelter of Windsor discuss future stops in their route on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line along the north branch of Muddy Creek on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. About a dozen volunteers came for the ride on the motor-car train on almost four miles of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line, along the north branch of Muddy Creek in Chanceford Township, to help release 500 live trout as part of the preseason live-release program on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. (Left to right) Jerry Eberly of Winterstown, Johnny Enfield of Winterstown and Sam Oberdorff of Windsor Township watch the passing scenery as they and other volunteers ride a motor-car train on the remnants of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line along the north branch of Muddy Creek in Chanceford Township on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
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