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The Genesee Society of Model Engineers Spring show will happen next Sunday at the Call Event Center on the campus of Genesee Community College. Doors open at 9:30 AM with over 250 tables of model railroad and train related merchandise. more details at www.gsme.org.

The Fall Great Batavia Train Show will be next Sunday, Oct 15th at the Richard C Call Arena located at Genesee Community College from 9:30 to 3:30. Over 250 tables of model train and railroad related items. Free parking and a snack bar available. Admission is $6.00 for adults with under 18 $3.00 and...

Texas Brine may have been in the salt business some where else in l926 but they did not show up in the Dale Valley until the early Seventies when they started to construct the wells and pipeline. One of their first purchases was my uncle's farm. There were some well process salt works around Warsaw ...

The Spring Batavia Train Show is this Sunday, March 26th, at the Robert C Call Event Center on the campus of Genesee Community College in Batavia from 9:30 to 3:30. Over 250 tables and dozens of vendors. Admission is still only $6.00, ages 13-18 $3.00, 12 and under free. Plenty of free parking and a...

It's Ferndale Trestle looking toward Liberty from Ferndale.

The 101st Great Batavia Train Show will be Sunday Oct. 16, 2022 at the Robert Call Event Center located in the Northwest corner of the Genesee Community College parking lot. Every dealer table in this large facility has been sold for the show. Hours are 9:30AM to 3:30PM. Admission is $6.00 for adult...

The NYWS&W was built through Western New York in 1883 and opened to Buffalo on 1/1/84. The 1883 mill mark on the rail would mark it as an authentic West Shore rail. Can someone identify the mill from the initials.

The 100th Great Batavia Train Show returns this Sunday April 3rd at the Call Event Center on the Campus of Genesee Community College. The show is open from 9:30 to 3:30 featuring over 90 dealers and over 200 plus tables. Admission is still $6.00, ages 18 to 13 $3.00 and 12 and under free. To commemo...

After three COVID related cancelations, The Batavia Train Show is back at the Richard C Call Arena at Genesee Community College in Batavia on Oct. 17, 2021 from 9:30 to 3:30. The arena is in the northeast corner of the GCC parking lot. Admission is $6.00, Ages 13-18 $3.00 and under 13 free. There ar...

The gypsum plant in Clarence Center was operated by National Gypsum. The Oakfield Plant was owned by USG - United States Gypsum. The USG plant manufactured Gypsum wallboard and various other products and operated its own paper mill making the thick cardboard like rolls used to make wallboard as well...

No one mentioned two shows. This will be the regular fall show. If the world returns to normal there will be s Spring show and on into the future.

The Genesee Society of Model Engineers Batavia Train Show has been rescheduled for October 17th 2021 at Genesee Community College.

Got the 399 and 381 figures from my 1925 West Shore time table which showed mileages of East Bergen-381, Byron-388, Elba 395 and Oakfield-399. After reading your post, dug out a book of track charts dating from the l930's which showed exact mileage from Weehawken as marked at the passenger stations....

The rather unusual brick building to the left of the semaphore mast is the Oakfield House, built soon after a fire destroyed its wooden predecessor in May l907. The mile post would be 399 and not 382. 382 would have been a little west of the location known as East Bergen where the West Shore crossed...

The spur on the map goes backwards from what was in place during later years. The diagonal road must be Bloomingdale Rd so the line is correct until it crosses. Then, it proceeded east along the north side of the dead end road until it reached the structure at the end shown just over the word "...