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Interested to learn more about what is going on with the Rochester Chapter NRHS and the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum?   Read the March 2010 issue of our newsletter, The Semaphore, online in PDF.    And if you want to read more, please check out our online newsletter archive.

Car illustrations from a 1928 MDT calendar

Merchants Despatch Transportation called East Rochester, NY home and most of its railroad cars were built there starting in 1898.   Here are several illustrations scanned from a 1928 MDT 12-month calendar showing some of the different cars and specifically refrigerator cars that were built by MDT for different purposes. 

Another trip from the past - Steam Power in Ontario on July 19, 1959

Another trip from the Rochester Chapter's past.  This time a trip behind Canadian steam on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Toronto-Hamilton & Buffalo Ry. and the New York Central on Sunday, July 19, 1959.   Motivepower...  Two CPR D-10 class 4-6-0 steam engines dating from between 1908&1913 pulling 14-16 cars.  The trip departed Ft. Erie, but bus service was available from Buffalo, Rochester & Jamestown.   Cost for the trip only: $7.50.   Cost from Rochester: $9.75.   As we have asked with other trips, we would welcome any recollections, photographs or other information about this trip from the Rochester Chapter's past.    Please contact us if you have anything to share.