Two new R&GVRRM YouTube videos...

Please check out our latest videos on our R&GVRRM YouTube channel.   First up is a video of a some of the diesel operations from our very soggy opening day.

A few days later and still in the rain, we find the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad's ALCO Centuries running south past the R&GVRRM's new passenger car siding.   This siding will see more work this year as the museum continues to ballast and level the already installed portion while working to install several hundred more feet of new siding as seen by the stone on the ground awaiting ties and rail.

May membership meeting - Thursday 05.19.2011 @ 7PM

The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum/Rochester Chapter NRHS are pleased to announce that they will hold their general membership meeting on Thursday, May 19th at the 40&8 Club. The meeting will feature contributions from our members and friends.   Our Member Slide Night offers you a chance to share a few of your most favorite images.   A Kodak Carousel projector will be available (please bring slides in trays) along with a PC hooked to an LCD projector for digital images on thumb drives or CDs.   We will also have tables available to share photographic prints, models, and railroadiana.   For those contributing slides or digital images, please restrict your show to a maximum of 20 images and preferably around 15.   We want to insure everyone gets their chance to show their images.

Visitors are welcome! You do not need to be a member to attend. The meeting starts at 7PM with some time to socialize and peruse the Museum's book store. You can also check out our new larger railroad library co-located at the 40&8 Club. The library will be open at 6:30PM. A short business meeting will take place between 7:30PM and 8PM with the show starting around 8:15PM. The meeting is held at the 40&8 Club which is located at 933 University Avenue(Across from the Gleason Works between Culver Road and Goodman Street) in the City of Rochester. More information is available on our website, http://www.rgvrrm.org/.

We hope those in the greater Rochester area will come out to see this great program. Everyone is always welcome! You do not need to be a member.

Latest newsletter available - May 2011

Interested in learning more about what is going on at the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum?   Please read the May 2011 issue of our newsletter, The Semaphore, online in PDF.    If you would like to read more, please check out our online newsletter archive.  We have nine previous years currently available.

Join us for opening day on May 15!

The combined New York Museum of Transportation and Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum ride season opens Sunday, May 15, with activities based on the PBS Kids series Dinosaur Train. Throughout the day kids will enjoy Dinosaur Train crafts, having their picture taken in front of a 6-foot tall free-standing Dinosaur Train standee, watching an all NEW episode of Dinosaur Train, and collecting Dinosaur Train giveaways. The event is free with admission. Our museums offers the only combined train and trolley ride in New York State, with departures from NYMT every half-hour starting at 11:30 a.m. The trolley connects on this special day with a diesel train for continuation to the railroad museum.

Entrance for the event is at 6393 East River Road, and can be reached from I-390 exit 11, taking Route 251 West 1 1/2 miles to East River Road, turning right and going 1 mile. Admission: $8 adults; $7 seniors age 65 and over; $5 children age 3 through 15. The museums are run entirely by dedicated volunteers and are open Sundays only, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

All aboard!