June 29th, 2008
We started our day out in Medina, scoping the Falls Road toward Lockport to chase a winery excursion train back to Medina. From there we caught CSX Q364 at the small town of Corfu and went off to the other side of Rochester to check out the OMID at Sodus. Finding nothing there, we headed up to Lyons until we got rained out and headed to Henrietta for the night. At our hotel, we looked up the address of the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum which Laura had found in the Rochester Visitors' Guide earlier in the day. We went off in the evening to see if we could find them, hours after their scheduled closure. We found the museum and started photographing the equipment parked out front. Moments later, LV 211, the museum's RS-3M, came down a hill and the crew were as surprised to see us as we were to see them. Checking that museum out definitely paid off.
Medina, New York
Medina is along the Falls Road about half way between Buffalo and Rochester.
Lockport, New York
Lockport is the junction of the CSX and the Falls Road just to the east of Buffalo.
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A Falls Road winery excursion pulls out of Lockport yard.
Middleport, New York
Middleport is between Lockport and Medina on the Falls Road.
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It's the sweet sound of a Genesee Valley Alco as the Falls Road winery excursion crosses a rural road west of Middleport.
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The Falls Road winery excursion throttles up as it heads through the small town of Middleport.
Medina, New York
Medina is along the Falls Road about half way between Buffalo and Rochester.
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The Falls Road winery excursion pulls into the museum at Medina station, unloads its passengers, and heads back west to run around.
Corfu, New York
Corfu is a small town just to the east of Batavia on the CSX main.
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CSXT Q364 heads through Corfu Station.
Sodus, New York
Sodus is the home of the Ontario Midland.
Lyons, New York
(map) Lyons is a few miles South of Geneva, New York, linked by an NS track from the town's ex-Conrail CSX main line to the Finger Lakes Railway.
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A CSX intermodal passes eastbound through Lyons.
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AMTK #64 heads east.
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CSXT Q112 passes through Lyons.
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CSXT Q114 passes through Lyons.
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CSXT Q364 heads east.
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A westbound CSX manifest heads for Rochester.
Industry, New York
Industry is the home of the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum along the LAL.
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Just 3 minutes after we arrived at the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, LV 211 came down the museum track grade that I had moments earlier thought could only handle trackcars.
