Rochester Subway Article: Classic Trains Summer 2013

I was in Barnes & Noble yesterday and reading a railroad magazine. The feature article was on
Interurban Lines, but there was an article and pictures of the Rochester Subway towards the end
of the magazine. It wasn't Trains, but Classic Trains (Interurban Special).

http://ctr.trains.com/Magazine/Current%20Issue.aspx

I also read the article in Classic Trains
My son goes to Rochester Institute of Technology and was telling me about the old subway
a while back
I was not sure of what he was talking about
I did not think there was a subway in Rochester
according to the article there was a one mile underground section of rail line with two stations
very interesting
I will need to do some research

Search Google images for Rochester Subway. You'll find many pictures of it's current condition. Rochestersubway dot com also has much material on it. 94 Years of Rochester Railways Vol 2, by William R. Gordon, has a section on it, and Canal Boats, Interurbans & Trolleys: The Story of the Rochester Subway is one of the best sources of information. Both are out of print, but still available on Amazon dot com.

Scott K.

Railhead wrote:I also read the article in Classic Trains
My son goes to Rochester Institute of Technology and was telling me about the old subway
a while back
I was not sure of what he was talking about
I did not think there was a subway in Rochester
according to the article there was a one mile underground section of rail line with two stations
very interesting
I will need to do some research

Is your son still at RIT? He needs to join our model railroad club! http://www.ritmrc.org

and the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum has the last Subway car in its collection, awaiting restoration:
http://www.rgvrrm.org/about/railroad/rsb60/index.htm

The Rochester Subway was a grade-separated rapid transit line using trolley cars. The line was built in the bed of the Erie Canal. Shut down in 1956. Here's an article I wrote for this site years ago...
http://www.railroad.net/articles/railfa ... /index.php

-otto-

One of my favorite memories from childhood is riding the entire length of the Rochester Subway with my father during its last year of operation. Only a small portion of it was actually in a tunnel. Most was in the old Erie canal bed that had been abandoned when the canal was re-routed south of Rochester. I also remember when some of my friends and I explored an abandoned spur that ran off the subway, and through a short tunnel. This had originally been a connection to the RS&E interurban line.

David