Prepping for Track Installation

The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is working hard to prepare the area north of the museum's Restoration Building for track installation this spring/summer. With initial grading done for one of the building tracks, the museum's Trojan front loader handles the removal of material the grader was not able to get to.

Big Cat... Little Bobcat - The museum's Cat D-7E dozer handles a little additional earth moving near the northeast corner of the building with the museum's new Bobcat skid steer loader following along doing a little clean-up.

Cleaning Up - The museum's new Bobcat is getting good use cleaning up some of the spoil left from the larger pieces of construction equipment. The museum is currently looking for either the donation or to purchase a Bobcat digging bucket to replace the snow bucket that came with the unit. This will make it even more effective when working in the dirt.

Plymouth and Burro Crane progress

Coming Together - Getting even closer to completion, the museum's Plymouth BL gas mechanical locomotive now has its Buda prime mover installed and its transmission hooked up. Final transmission work is underway along with fuel and cooling system work. Some of the cosmetic restoration can also be seen with the cab frame remounted.

Welding up an Oil Pan - With connected track planned for this summer, the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum hopes to be able to move its restored Burro Model 40 crane out of the restoration building for use on the museum's demonstration railroad. One of the final steps to get this unit running is to complete some welding on the transmission oil pan. Art Mummery has that welding work well underway.

Eagle Scout Project Adds New Signs

New lineside signs including this new Yard Limit sign have been installed on the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum's demonstration railroad as part of an Eagle Scout project undertaken by Jason Marks, son of one of the museum's volunteers. Jason did a great job leading a team that designed, engineered, installed posts and hung all of the signs made by the museum. The signs included station signs, yard limit signs and new mile marker signs.