After receiving some new vinyl lettering after its repaint, the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum's Fairmont track crane was moved out of the restoration building and put back in service. Here is a picture of the crane in front of the NYMT's car barn along with some scans from a 1975 Fairmont brochure showing the track crane.
Track crane back in service with new lettering in from of the NYMT's car barn.
1975 Fairmont MOW catalog cover.
On May 18th, the joint operating season of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum and the New York Museum of Transportation started. As a special treat, opening day was "Casey Jones Day" and featured the NYMT's full restored former Rochester Subway "Casey Jones" track car. Please take a look...
The restored "Casey Jones" track car waits between demonstrations at the NYMT.
Here we can see the Casey Jones along with one of the NYMT's former P&W Strafford cars, #168. The #168 is fully operational and has run under wire at the NYMT. Infrastructure work is underway to bring regularly scheduled trolley rides to the joint museum operations in the future.
After several months and a complete rebuild, the frog for the switch between track four and track five has been reinstalled. It is now receiving some fine tuning and new ballast, but it is back in service for track car operations.
Our New York Central crossing shanty also got some more attention. While plans are underway to build a new base to mount the shanty on, the building has been getting attention and is starting to get some new paint in the form of tinted primer. Please take a look...
Frog at Switch #5 is reinstalled and receiving some fine tuning and new ballast.
Our NYC crossing shanty gets new primer.
