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And to add some more detail to the images, this was offered by one poster:
"The Regional Market also hosted at least two open houses for the Rochester Railroad Association in the mid 60s'. All the carriers serving Rochester participated. Most supplied the newest and best appearing on the rails at that time, although some older albeit freshly repainted equipment appeared as well.
The Rochester Railroad Association was comprised mainly of Traffic, Sales and Marketing representatives from all the railroads with both an operating and non-operating presence in the Rochester area. At that time out of town carriers such as the Southern, Missouri Pacific and others had sales offices in Rochester to call on the traffic departments of area manufacturing companies.
The event was popular and in previous years was hosted at such places as the Exchange Street yard of the Erie/E-L.
In 1966 the LAL departed Livonia with steam engine #17 and two Stillwell coaches. At Avon we picked up a new EL bay window caboose. At G&W Junction near P&L we picked up the GNWR office car Edward II. The whole menagerie then operated over the EL to Batavia, where we crossed over to the NYC downtown trackage thence proceeded east on the NYC main to Chili Jct then down the shore to the Regional Market. This was a whole day trip in the most miserable wet weather. A lot of area railroad officials rode this trip along with a few stowaways.
The weekend event on the other hand was in stellar weather and a good turn out was had."
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