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Stored on the museum's new passenger car siding on the west side of the LA&L tracks, the Rochester & Gensee Valley Railroad Museum's new GE 110-tonner #8 and GE 45-tonner #1950 are far away from any of the museum's electrical infrastructure, but Rochester's winter has been unrelenting on everything including locomotive starting batteries. Therefore, it was time to break-out one of the museum's generators to provide power for a portable locomotive battery charger and get charging to insure the engine's batteries stay charged and don't freeze. In the case of the 110-tonner, the generator seen here may be older than the locomotive. Photos by Chris Hauf
The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum was very fortunate to receive the donation of two new locomotives which previously served Rochester Gas & Electric's Russell Station in Charlotte, NY. With the plant closed, RG&E was very generous to donate the locomotives to the R&GVRRM where the join RG&E #1941 which once served RG&E's BeeBee Station generating plant in downtown Rochester. It took new fewer than four railroads to deliver the engines to the museum in Rush. Here we see delivery day by the ALCOS of the Livonia, Avon & Lakville Railroad shown here roaring past the engines post delivery on the R&GVRRM's new passenger car siding.
With a north facing switch, the LA&L decided to take the locomotives south past the R&GVRRM on December 3 and deliver them as part of a northbound freight on December 4. Here we see the engines passing the new Barilla Pasta plant just north of Avon.
The switch for the R&GVRRM's new siding is located approximately 2000 feet north of the museum's Industry depot. Here we see #1950 and #8 being shoved into the siding by the ALCO Centuries of the LA&L.
With the LA&L headed north, here we are looking south at the new locomotives on the siding along with the museums two ex-New York Central flat cars which are being used for rail and track material storage for the continued construction of the siding project.
Pick up a copy of the November 2008 issue of Railpace to find a two-page spread on our 10th annual Diesel Days this past August! Volunteer Otto Vondrak authored an informative article about our event, complimented by photographed contributed by our members and visitors. A great plug for our museum!
The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is operated solely by dedicated volunteers and works in partnership with the New York Museum of Transportation to bring the visitor a unique dual museum experience interpreting the railroad and transportation history of Rochester and Western New York. Established in 1971, our roots go back to 1937 as the Rochester Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, the third oldest chapter in the organization.
Stored on the museum's new passenger car siding on the west side of the LA&L tracks, the Rochester & Gensee Valley Railroad Museum's new GE 110-tonner #8 and GE 45-tonner #1950 are far away from any of the museum's electrical infrastructure, but Rochester's winter has been unrelenting on everything including locomotive starting batteries. Therefore, it was time to break-out one of the museum's generators to provide power for a portable locomotive battery charger and get charging to insure the engine's batteries stay charged and don't freeze. In the case of the 110-tonner, the generator seen here may be older than the locomotive. Photos by Chris Hauf
