From the archives... Merry Christmas from ALCO-GE News

 For the holidays, we jump back into the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum's archives where we find the December 1952 edition of ALCO-GE News from the American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company.   This monthly newsletter appears to have been sent to ALCO customers to keep them up to date on different things related to ALCO products.

In this case, first we find holiday wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the American Locomotive and General Electric Companies.   A sentiment we echo at the R&GVRRM.    We also find out that Mr. P.T. Egbert has been promoted to ALCO President after starting his career at American Locomotive in 1922.    On the back, we also find an up-to-date list of carbon brushes to be used in the various electric equipment on ALCO-GE locomotives including traction motors, traction generators, auxiliary generators and more.   A very useful sheet then and possibly useful information today for those of us working to preserve ALCOs of this vintage.

The R&GVRRM has several years of ALCO-GE News in our collection, and we will share more each month.    For now, we will again echo the same sentiment of this newsletter and hopes everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Last weekend to ride the Holly Trolley!

As Christmas draws closer, it is also means the end of Holly Trolley season is drawing closer as well.    The good news is that you have one more chance to ride this weekend, December 18th (10:30AM to 4PM) and 19th (11AM to 4PM).   Details are available on the NYMT's website.   Don't miss your chance to enjoy this unique holiday event.   We hope to see you out at the NYMT this weekend!

Not able to ride this year, but curious about the operation.   Here is our latest YouTube video featuring Holly Trolley operations from Saturday, December 11, 2010.

Latest newsletter available - December 2010

Interested in learning more about what is going on at the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum?   Please read the December 2010 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.