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
