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12/7/2002 - Museum runs caboose
train rides in cooperation with Remelt's Evergreen Acres (Cut
your own Xmas tree farm)
On December 7th & 8th, the R&GV RR Museum operated
caboose train rides in cooperation with Remelt's Evergreen
Acres Cut-Your-Own Christmas Tree Farm. Using Eastman
Kodak Company 80-tonner #6 as motive power along with Penn
Central transfer caboose 18526 and Erie
cupola caboose C254, rides
were offered from Remelt's farm which is located adjacent to
the NYMT south to the R&GV RR Museum and return. The trips
were a success for both Remelt's & the Museum. We hope
to continue and build on this new special event in the year's
to come!
Christmas
Tree Train headed south toward the R&GV RR
Museum.
11/9/2002 - New Caterpillar D8 tractor put into service!
The
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
is pleased to report that we have added another historic
piece of construction museum to our operating collection.
While acquired several years back at a cost of only $200.00,
this tractor required some major radiator repairs before
it could enter service. Thanks to the generosity of George
Worden Jr. of Worden's Ag Service of York, NY, the D-8
has been returned to service! Mr. Worden took the D8 for
several months and installed a new radiator amongst other
repairs in trade for a surplus piece of shop equipment from
the R&GV
RR Museum.
The D8 was returned on 11/8/2002 and
volunteers from the R&GV RR Museum's
Construction Department had the unit running on Saturday morning 11/9/2002.
The plan is to team this brute with out recently donated
Cat tractor pan shown below and use it to continue our
excavation around our restoration facility. There are
also plans to repaint this tractor in 2003 to match our
restored Cat D7 dozer. Please stay tuned for more pics
of the unit in service soon!
R&GV RR Museum volunteer, John McDonald, sits ready to move the museum's
the newly operational Cat D8 tractor which is connected to the museum's recently
acquired Cat tractor pan.
8/21/2002 - Diesel Days a real success!
On August 17th & 18th, the R&GV RR Museum in cooperation with the New
York Museum of Transportation held its annual Diesel
Days event. Nearly 500 people came out to ride the diesels and cabooses from
the R&GV RR Museum's collection over the two day event. Running were Eastman
Kodak Company #9 (ALCO RS-1), Nickel
Plate Road #79 (ALCO S-4), and US
Army #1843 (FM H12-44) along with restored cabooses, Erie
C254 and PC18526.
NKP ALCO S-4
#79 pushes Penn
Central caboose #18526 into the passenger transfer
area during the museums' Diesel Days event!
Thanks goes out to all who came out to ride and a special thanks to
the volunteers of the R&GV RR Museum and NYMT for making this event so
successful!
Just part of the dual museum crew at the end of a very
successful Diesel Days event.
7/10/2002 - New roof completed on Industry depot!
Only 10 days after receiving a grant to fund in part the
replacement of the roof on the R&GV RR Museum's Industry
depot, the work has been COMPLETED! Started
on July 8th by Sunset Construction, the firmed hired by the R&GV RR Museum,
the roof was completely torn off, the underlayment repaired where needed, and
replaced with new 40 year architectural shingles designed to mimic the building's
original slate roof. With the roof failing, the R&GV RR Museum had already "done
its homework" this spring on exactly who and what it wanted for a roof,
had put aside most of the money to carry out the project, and was waiting to
see whether or not the grant was awarded before starting the work. With the grant
received, the contract was signed and the work is now done, looks great and will
provide a new level of protection of this historic structure from the sometimes
harsh Rochester Elements. Thanks Sunset for their great work and thanks again
to the NRHS for their generosity! We hope they are pleased to see what their
grant has done for the R&GV RR Museum!
Industry depot before receiving its new roof - April 2002
Industry depot resplendent in its new roof - July 10,
2002
7/1/2002 - R&GV
RR Museum's parent organization awarded NRHS
Railway Heritage Grant for the Museum's Industry depot.
The Rochester Chapter NRHS is pleased
to announce that it was a recipient of a 2002 Railway Heritage Grant from the
National Railway Historical Society totaling $3000.00! This grant will be used
to fund in part the complete replacement of the roof on the Industry depot which
is the cornerstone of the Rochester Chapter's Rochester & Genesee
Valley Railroad Museum. The work will be undertaken by a professional contractor.
The Rochester Chapter would like to thank the NRHS for their generosity and continued
support! We would also encourage interested parties to contribute to the NRHS
and its Railway Heritage Grant Program. Since 1991, the NRHS has awarded 76 grants
totaling $190,880 to 46 NRHS Chapters and 30 to non-NRHS organizations.
6/16/2002
- Museum completes restoration of Caterpillar D7E bulldozer.
The R&GV RR Museum is pleased to announce that is has completed the mechanical
and cosmetic restoration of its Caterpillar D7E bulldozer. The unit was purchased
a few years back as military surplus with a bad engine. A new engine was acquired
through the generosity of the International Operating Engineers Local 832 and
was installed during the winter of 2001-2002. The unit is now running and has
been repainted from its military camo to its original Cat "Hi-way" Yellow.
The R&GV RR Museum's former US Army Cat D7E dozer resplendent in a fresh
coat of its as built Caterpillar "Hi-way" Yellow color.
Roll over the image to see where we started from.
The D7E fully lettered and showing the dozer is ready to go.
The D7 sits in the R&GV RR Museum's Industry yard.
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