Joel Salomon has been kind enough to send along some photos taken recently in the (relatively) new barn at the Middletown & Hummelstown. Most of these photos are of Lewistown & Reedsville 23, the center-door car that was moved to the M&H within the past couple of years.
The car appears to be in good shape, as car bodies go. The last photo shows Wendell Dillinger, owner of the M&H, standing next to the car with its L&R number clearly visible.
Also in the barn are a steam engine, a pair of Rio open cars (the one on the right in the above photo is the single-trucker, which is capable of operation using the towed generator shown), and a Red Arrow 80-series car which has had its trucks regauged to standard gauge. The M&H owns three 80-series cars and I'm afraid I actually don't know which one this is.
Also stored in the barn is Brooklyn semiconvertible 4550, built by Laconia in 1906. This car had a strange post-preservation history that supposedly took it to somewhere called Tomorrowland before it later spent time at the Edaville Railroad in Massachusetts. By 1980 it was at Station Square in Pittsburgh, which fixed it up for display, and then when that collection was liquidated in 2000 the car went to the M&H.
Actually Brooklyn #4550 is a true Convertible like #4547 at Seashore and #4573 at Branford. I remember seeing this car in Pittsburgh at Station Square and was disappointed in it's partially stripped condition.
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