Coach window replacement continues

The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum has a program in place to replace much of the glazing on its six Budd-built coaches. Here we see one of the cars with plywood replacing many of the windows that are in the process of being rebuilt. We also see the one of the new windows already installed. At over $100.00 per window for glazing alone, the museum could use your help to meet our restoration goals. Would you adopt-a-window with a secure online donation to the museum? If you'd like to learn how you can help with the installation and restoration, stop by one of our organized work sessions, we'd love to have the extra hands. These coaches were used to re-equip New York Central's "Empire State Express" in 1941, and our goal is to restore these cars to their historic appearance, allowing our visitors to experience what train travel used to be like.

All abord the Empire State Express!

To allow for some work to take place on the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum's seven ex-New York Central "Empire State Express" passenger cars, the entire set was re-assembled into a single train. Here we see the cars stretched north through the restoration building yard and out on to the museum's mainline. Looking south we see some of the train stretched back toward the museum's restoration building both from the hill alongside the building and down at ground level. Out on the main at the other end, we find the museum's Fairbanks-Morse H12-44 #1843 along with Lehigh Valley #211 at the head of the train out on the mainline. The 1843 was used to put the train together having been recently reactivated from its winter slumber. Work continues to prepare these cars for future excursions. Interested in helping out? Learn how you can volunteer or make a donation to support our restoration activities.