This slideshow details the arrival and unloading of #206 in at the New York Museum of Transportation on Tuesday afternoon, September 22, 2009.
RL&B #206 finds a new home at the NYMT.
The car body of Rochester, Lockport & Buffalo interurban #206 has called the R&GVRRM home for over a decade after the museum saved the car from destruction in 1998. As the museum looked at its collection and the need to move #206 from its storage location to allow for construction of the second phase of the museum's new siding west of the LA&L, the decision was made to ask the R&GVRRM's partner museum, the New York Museum of Transportation, if they would like to take ownership of the car originally built by the Niles Car Co. in 1908. Given the NYMT's focus on trolleys and interurbans, this just made sense and they agreed. Since the R&GVRRM had to move the car, it handled the job and covered the cost to load, move and unload the car at the NYMT.
This slideshow details the arrival and unloading of #206 in at the New York Museum of Transportation on Tuesday afternoon, September 22, 2009.
This slideshow details the arrival and unloading of #206 in at the New York Museum of Transportation on Tuesday afternoon, September 22, 2009.
Trolley & diesels to operate 'til season end!
Did you miss Diesel Days or any of our other trolley & diesel operations this year? The R&GVRRM and the NYMT are pleased to announce that starting this Sunday, September 27th until season end on November 1st, public train operations will feature NYMT's trolley meeting a diesel powered train from the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. The museums are open Sundays from 11AM to 5PM and all tours start at the NYMT. More information on visiting can be found here. We hope to see you out riding on both our trolley and our diesel powered trains this fall!
Small victories...
Not everything we do at the R&GVRRM is easily visible or on a grand scale. Many times, the work we do is a series of small jobs that we hope result in small victories when we are done. Saturday, September 19th was no different.
While working on ex-Eastman Kodak Company #9 this year, it was discovered that the rubber shock mounts that hold the low oil pressure switch on the side of the engine block had failed.
A search for replacements was started. In many cases, we find that parts for locomotives made over 50+ years ago are make from a unique material first documented by Howard Pincus of the Railroad Museum of New England. It is called unobtanium, a material that is impossible to find anywhere. In this case, we were lucky. A check of the McMaster-Carr website turned up the exact replacement parts needed and at a very reasonable price. Thanks McMaster! Two were ordered, were quickly delivered, and in a small victory, installed by museum volunteer, Chris Hauf, on Saturday, 9/19.
A small job hidden behind the engine's hood, but an important one to insure all of #9's safety systems are properly installed and properly working.
At the same time, more work was being done around the museum. RG&E #8 had just had all of its brake cylinders cleaned, rebuilt with all new rubber parts and reinstalled the Saturday before. Here we see one of the rebuilt cylinders waiting for the new pins to be installed to hook the piston push rod to the brake rigging. Rebuilding brake cylinders is another job that most would not be able to see that it took place, but an important job to insure #8's brakes are in perfect working condition.
While one may wonder on successive visits to our museum if anything changed or if any work was done, sometimes the work we do and the small victories we achieve are not easily seen, but are just as important to the success of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum.
While working on ex-Eastman Kodak Company #9 this year, it was discovered that the rubber shock mounts that hold the low oil pressure switch on the side of the engine block had failed.
A search for replacements was started. In many cases, we find that parts for locomotives made over 50+ years ago are make from a unique material first documented by Howard Pincus of the Railroad Museum of New England. It is called unobtanium, a material that is impossible to find anywhere. In this case, we were lucky. A check of the McMaster-Carr website turned up the exact replacement parts needed and at a very reasonable price. Thanks McMaster! Two were ordered, were quickly delivered, and in a small victory, installed by museum volunteer, Chris Hauf, on Saturday, 9/19.
A small job hidden behind the engine's hood, but an important one to insure all of #9's safety systems are properly installed and properly working.At the same time, more work was being done around the museum. RG&E #8 had just had all of its brake cylinders cleaned, rebuilt with all new rubber parts and reinstalled the Saturday before. Here we see one of the rebuilt cylinders waiting for the new pins to be installed to hook the piston push rod to the brake rigging. Rebuilding brake cylinders is another job that most would not be able to see that it took place, but an important job to insure #8's brakes are in perfect working condition.
While one may wonder on successive visits to our museum if anything changed or if any work was done, sometimes the work we do and the small victories we achieve are not easily seen, but are just as important to the success of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum.
Sunday 9/20 public operations to feature trolleys and diesels!
Did you miss Diesel Days? The R&GVRRM and the NYMT are pleased to announce that this Sunday's (September 20th) public train operations will feature NYMT's trolley meeting a diesel powered train from the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. The museums are open Sundays from 11AM to 5PM and all tours start at the NYMT. More information on visiting can be found here. We hope to see you out riding on both our trolley and our diesel powered train on this special Sunday!
History visits history...
Photo by Christopher R. HaufUpon arriving for a Tuesday evening work session, volunteers were met by a nice late summer surprise, a piece of history parked next to the R&GVRRM's Industry depot. A classic LaSalle owned by one of the museum's volunteers basked in the late evening sun showing what probably was at one point in our museum's past. It was nice for this piece of history to visit history in the form of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum on this early September evening in 2009!
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