Hittin' the dirt again!

After a summer that saw a lot of clean-up around the museum, the land needed to further extend our Empire State Express train set siding was clear and ready to meet the museum's heavy equipment.   On Tuesday afternoon, October 19, volunteers Scott Gleason and Dan Waterstraat had the yellow fleet fired up and working.  Here are some photos of the progress.

The work site with the end of the current siding just behind the dozer just to left of center.

 Scott Gleason has a full blade as he passes in the low Fall evening sunlight.

 Making another pass.   The railroad cars at the top of the image are in the north yard of the museum's restoration shop.

Ready... Set... Go!   The museum's restored 1968 Cat D7E next to the museum's Galion road roller.  The Galion does good work, but a newer vibratory rubber tired roller would be a great addition to the museum's construction arsenal.   Anyone have any leads?

Looks can be deceiving...  While the roller looks to be in the lead, the dozer has already been down the job site and back.   The museum's restoration shop sits in the back on the hill.

October membership meeting @ 7PM - 10/21/2010

The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum/Rochester Chapter NRHS are pleased to announce that they will hold their general membership meeting this Thursday, October 21st at the 40&8 Club. The meeting will feature 16mm films of the New York Central Railroad by museum member, Peter Gores.

Visitors are always 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 railroad library co-located at the 40&8 Club. 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.

We hope those in the greater Rochester area will come out to see this great program.

From the archives... A wonderful surprise inside a small envelope.

Along with our depot and railroad equipment collections, the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum has some fairly extensive archival holdings of railroad photographs and paperwork.   To share some of that archive, we are starting a new series of blog posts called From the archives... that will interspersed amongst our regular preservation and museum news updates.    At the start, we will be sharing some posts originally found on our blog for the Rochester Chapter National Railway Historical Society.  We thought they were interesting enough to share them again here along with a whole bunch of new upcoming posts.   We hope you enjoy this new series, and we welcome suggestions.

"A wonderful surprise inside a small envelope"

While looking through the Museum's archives, I came upon a small envelope. Inside was a letter, business card, and a punched New York Central passenger cash fare receipt. Not much at first until I read the letter.

Then I realized this was a really neat piece of Rochester railroad and Rochester Chapter NRHS history.   A last ride on a last New York Central train...  A souvenir saved...   A nearly by-gone form of communication in a type written letter...   An experience shared between friends (A. Whitman Crittenden & Wallace Bradley) now preserved and left to share with us...

 

 

The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is always looking for new people to help us with our archives and to see what other discoveries there are to find and share.   Interested?   Please contact us or come to one of our monthly membership meetings.