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READY TO RAMBLE Housatonic Railroad GP35 3601 (ex-PRR/PC/Conrail 2312) poses with Mass Bay RRE’s Berkshire County Rambler at Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum’s Lenox, MA depot, 6/18/2011.
Photo for Callboy by Doug Scott
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The Berkshire County Rambler
June 18, 2011
by John Reading
After Mass Bay RREs pair of successful excursions on the Housatonic Railroad
the Berkshire Flyer in May 2008 and the Housatonic Flyer in May 2009 our Trip
Committee talked with Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum about operating a third,
but shorter, trip. Initially conceived as a photo special attractive mainly to railfans,
it soon became a Rambler targeting people who just want to go for a train
ride, as President Steve Butterworth put it. Then at the final planning stages, a
shorter trip became even shorter, when HRRC found that a bridge south of Great
Barrington was not usable for passenger trains. So Mass Bay RRE made up for it
with more photo stops plus staging a meet with BSRMs regular tourist-train
and over 200 riders and staff came along.
We left BSRMs handsomely restored ex-New Haven station/museum at Lenox, MA shortly after 10 AM, about 10 minutes
behind schedule.
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