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INSIDE Strive to Provide an “Authentic” Experience While the Recognition Is Great, It Is for Our Visitors NEXT MEETING: July 18 Join us at Industry Depot for a NEWSLETTER OF THE ROCHESTER & GENESEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM ride on your museum railroad JULY 2013 VOL. 56 No. 11 Volunteer Depot Guide Jim Moore holds the door open for visitors touring Industry Depot and our museum displays. We strive to provide an authentic experience for our visitors, what else can we do to make someone’s visit special? PHOTO BY OTTO M. VONDRAK Keeping it Real “What is real?” That is a question that has right. More people are coming through the plagued philosophers for many years. door, and we would like to keep that trend As far as relating to our museum, we going as long as we can. INSIDE strive to provide an “authentic” experience While the recognition is great, it is for our visitors. That means train crews in important that we remain focused on our acceptable “period” uniforms for freight goals. We published a list of priority proj - Train Bulletin . 2 service employees. It means keeping our ects earlier this year that your board of facilities neat and clean and making a good trustees will be reviewing. Look for an first impression. Several visitors have update in these pages on how we’re doing. Museum News . 3 commented favorably about the recent Do you see areas we can improve? Is changes we have made, from less clutter in there something missing from our muse - Picnic Aug. 17 . 5 the depot, to expanded displays elsewhere. um? What can we do to keep people People are noticing our extra efforts. engaged and encourage repeat visits? Recently the New York Museum of We depend on increased attendance to Six Rochester Routes . 6 Transportation (along with R&GVRRM) maintain the railroad and fund our projects. was named No. 16 in a list of “Top 20 I’d like to hear from you by phone Places to Take Kids in Greater Rochester” (716) 474-2833 or by email at Museum Gear . 7 by Kids Out and About (see full listing at [email protected] . www.rochester.kidsoutandabout.com). —Mike Dow, Clearly that means we’re doing something Museum President ROCHESTER & GENESEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM • ROCHESTER, NEW YORK TRAINENWS A NDB ANNUOUNCLEMELNTS ETIN www.rgvrrm.org MUSEUM OFFICERS PRESIDENT Mike Dow (716) 474-2833 VICE PRESIDENT Joe Nugent TREASURER Dave Peet RECORDING SECRETARY Joel R. Shaw R&GVRRM MEMBERSHIP MEETING the month, allowing the July Trustees meeting to be CORRESPONDING SEC’Y JUNE 20, 2013 moved from July 4 to July 11. Don Wawrzyniak The May Museum Membership Meeting was called Membership Report: There was one new mem - to order at the Industry Depot, 282 Rush-Scottsville bers to be voted in; Rich Fischpera , who also vol - TRUSTEES Road, Rush, at 6:55 PM by trustee Dave unteers with NYMT. A MOTION was made to Bob Achilles Bob Burz Scheiderich in the absence of Mike Dow. There accept the new member. The motion passed unani - Peter Gores were a few unidentified guests that were from out mously. Jim Johnson of town, as well as Mike Byron. Events: Special events coming up are Baseball David Scheiderich Announcements: Rob Burz announced the Day on June 30, Trolleys at Twilight on July 20, our Otto M. Vondrak progress to date on the Lehigh Valley caboose with Museum Picnic on August 17, and Diesel Days on Mark Wilczek the welding on of new side material in addition to August 18. the bolts that we are using to simulate rivets (e.g. Crew Call: Volunteers are needed for train crews they have a rivet head on one end). Donations are and depot guides throughout the summer. Most being solicited through our web site and by regular dates remain unstaffed, which jeopardizes the con - mail to help offset the cost of the rivets. tinued operation of the museum. The official publication of Otto Vondrak discussed the completion of the New Business: None. the Rochester & Genesee Valley North Station Lawn Project. On June 29 will be Program Committee: The program tonight con - Railroad Museum hosting a Boy Scout Troop that weekend to perform sists of train rides up the hill past Midway, almost to service projects and work towards their Railroading the NYMT property. Volume 56, No. 10 merit badge. Dave Scheiderich mentioned that A MOTION was made to adjourn; The motion EDITOR RG&E #8 has been sanded inside of the cab. passed unanimously. Otto M. Vondrak New uniform t-shirts with the current museum Meeting adjourned at 7:12 p.m. [email protected] logo are now available to order, $15.00 for short —Joel R. Shaw, Recording Secretary sleeve, $20.00 for long sleeve. Official museum PRINTING AND MAILING Dave Peet name tags are available for $8.00 each. Don Wawrzyniak Motive Power Supt. Joe Nugent announced that RGV 1654 was in primary service, with USA 1843 VISIT US ONLINE: ©2013 Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. The Semaphore is pub - providing back-up as needed. lished monthly by the Rochester & Genesee Meeting Change: The members voted unani - www.rgvrrm.org Valley Railroad Museum. It is mailed free to mously to suspend the by-laws requirement that all members. Non-member subscriptions are facebook.com/rgvrrm $12.00 and run from January 1 to December Trustees meetings be held on the first Thursday of 31. Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month, and the Board of Trustees meets the first Thursday of each month. Any items JOIN THE MUSEUM TODAY related to the activities of the Rochester & PLAN AHEAD : Next Meeting: Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, and Annual Dues: $25.00 regional railroad history and current events Rochester & Genesee Valley RR Museum are gladly accepted. P.O. Box 23326 August 15 Rochester, NY 14692-3326 at Industry Depot 2 • JULY 2013 • THE SEMAPHORE ROCHESTER & GENESEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM VISIT OUR WEB SITE: WWW.RGVRRM.ORG MUSEUM CONTACT INFO MUSEUM PRESIDENT Mike Dow (716) 474-2833 [email protected] MUSEUM MANGER David Scheiderich (585) 301-1019 [email protected] MOTIVE POWER SUPERINTENDENT Joe Nugent (585) 944-1047 [email protected] MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN Sam Rosenberg [email protected] UPCOMING MUSEUM PROGRAMS MONTHLY MEETINGS For the warm summer months, our month - ly meetings have moved to Industry Depot, on Route 251 in Rush. After a brief busi - ness meeting at 7:30 p.m., stick around to enjoy a ride on the museum you help build and maintain! Also, bring a friend, our meetings are open to everyone. Please visit our web site at www.rgvrrm.org . July 18, August 15, and September 19: We will be hosting our monthly meetings at Industry Depot, starting at 7:30 p.m. —Harold Russell, Program Co-Chair MOTIVE POWER DEPT. RGV 1654: A bad battery was swapped out, though the system still will not hold a charge. We will need to purchase a new TOP: The Tuesday Night Track Gang poses for a photo before starting their evening work. Helping to battery set to replace the ones that have keep our museum railroad in top condition, they always welcome new members. John Redden is the served 1654 for the past nine years. This “gang leader,” and you can find them at work Tuesday evenings at Industry Depot. ABOVE: Our locomotive will remain our primary engine Fairbanks-Morse diesel was the featured power for our June 21 Museum Meeting, with our special throughout the operating season. excursion train paused at Midway station. Our summer museum member meetings are hosted at Industry, starting at 7:30 p.m. Bring a friend and come enjoy a train ride! OTTO VONDRAK PHOTOS USA 1843: This locomotive was fired up and used for our June membership meet - manager to help move the repairs on this ready for primer and paint. Other cleanup ing, as well as regular Sunday operations locomotive forward. It is our goal to com - work has been taking place throughout the for our June 16 Railroad Day event. It plete repairs to the braking systems before month of June. remains on standby as our secondary loco - the end of 2013 so that we may move this All other locomotives are stored out of motive for the season. engine out of the shop if need be. If you’d service untill further notice. Would you LV 211: Volunteer Bob Ziegler will be like to help on this project or just learn like to get involved helping to keep our helping to repair/replace the faulty water more about what needs to be done, please historic fleet of diesel locomotives in good pump that has so far kept this locomotive contact Joe directly. At the end of the working order? Please contact me at out of service this year. month, Chris Hauf visited from California [email protected] . RG&E 8: We are seeking a new project and sanded the walls of the cab to get them —Joe Nugent, Motive Power Supt. WWW.RGVRRM.ORG • THE SEMAPHORE • JULY 2013 • 3 TOP LEFT: Rick Israelson prepares the tamping bar as Rand Warner drives a spike home in the Hill Block on June 18. TOP RIGHT: Jeremy Tuke added new plantings to the sign on Route 251, which now advertises the existence of train rides, thanks to Chris Hauf. ABOVE LEFT: The east side of our Lehigh Valley caboose had new steel welded on thanks to Bill Bollinger and Rob Burz. We are seeking donations to complete the riveting. Have you adopt - ed your rivet yet? Visit rgvrrm.org/support. ABOVE RIGHT: Otto Vondrak rakes the dirt level in anticipation of topsoil delivery on June 18.
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