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What I understand to be the only surviving car from this line can be viewed at the New York Museum of Transportation. Gift, in 1980, of Lynn Heintz

You could know this a lot better than I, but I would say that here, a locomotive is used to haul (or push) a string of passenger cars. It does not appear to be a dedicated consist. In truth, my interest leads more to historic, buildings, sites, Musuems, things railroadly like that. My comments here ...

I wonder if it is a coincidence that this is the practice between Baltimore and Washington also. And they are fast! I have often wondered from a safety aspect if the engineer is in front for enhanced ability to see what is going on. I reckon that it would be tons easier to see things on the track if...

I think it is more dangerous in push mode. If I seat in the cab car and see the engineer running out of there, I;m going to follow him to a safer place on the train. I don't know what's coming out of this tragedy as far as engine placement. That engineer thing was common on interurbans, until the H...

I lived from age zero to six next to the Subway in Rochester. My father liked rails, and I went along. He took me to see the place where the interurban from Syracuse came into Rochester, a tunnel with water covering he rails. I think that my Lionels helped, too. I came to like fixing things, machine...

Does anyone know whereabouts of any rolling stock/buildings/other stuff?

Years ago, I volunteered every day for seven years at a then-new Museum. One of the greatest experiences of my life. I think of those times every day.

In the 1940's/50's/60's timeframe there were quite a few (perhaps 5 to 8) old Trolley cars converted into summer cottages at Lakes Lamoka and Waneta in the Finger Lakes region of NY state..I think the trolleys might have come from the Rochester or Elmira systems.. I read about them in a book years ...

I directed a transportation museum with a concentration in rail history, back in the 1970's I would say that most rail Museums that I have been to get at least half and as much as virtually all, of their labor from volunteers. Volunteers always bitch. But they get the job done. Every Museum should h...

There is a Plymouth at the Henry Ford Museum ('The Ford") in Dearborn They restored the mechanicals about 5 years ago The New York Museum of Transportation has a 4 wheel, 4 gear gas fueled unit. A small number of them sit on a siding south of Baltimore near the Ft Smallwood Road bridge Hey That...

Has anyone seen a Rochester Subway car, other than number 60?

I have in my collection (which is not with me, so no pix) that has a triangular piece perpendicular to the part that sits on top of the tie. That piece has a raised lip that holds the tie. Any ideas on age? I happen to also have a sleeper, a piece of granite used on the section of the B&O from B...