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New York Museum of Transportation

RUSH, NY

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About New York Museum of Transportation

Riding the New York Museum of Transportation’s electric trolley winds through a two‑mile private line that links the museum’s West Henrietta campus to the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, offering a scenic passage across former Erie Railroad right‑of‑way. The route, set amid the rolling fields of Rush, New York, delivers the state’s only electric trolley experience, showcasing restored interurban cars and historic track‑car equipment while traversing the museum’s historic dairy‑barn grounds.

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History

The New York Museum of Transportation traces its roots to the Mage & Co. street‑car collection that was auctioned in 1973 after Hurricane Agnes flooded the Magee Transportation Museum in 1972, and to a 1973 lease of an abandoned dairy barn in West Henrietta where Rochester Transit Corporation car 157 was placed on 5 October 1973 and car 107 followed a month later. A formal nonprofit charter issued in 1975 gave the museum its official name, the same year it acquired the former Philadelphia‑based snow‑sweeper C‑130 (January 1975) and began salvaging track material from the western end of the Rochester Subway. Construction of the demonstration railroad starts in 1976, reaches nearly three‑quarters of a mile by 1979, and by 1980 the museum offers rides on Fairmont track cars; the line connects to the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum in 1993 after a joint effort that began in the late‑1990s. After installing the first quarter‑mile of overhead trolley wire in 2001, NYMT runs the only electric trolley rides in New York State, extending electrification to the Midway station in 2006 and receiving additional historic bodies in 1996 (Northern Texas Traction car 409), 1997 (NY State Railways car 437), 2009 (PTC snow‑sweeper C‑125) and 2014 (NJ Transit PPC 7). Earlier street‑car donations—Rochester Transit Corporation car 1246 in 1941 (scrapped 1950) and Rochester Subway car 60 in 1956—illustrate the museum’s long‑standing preservation effort.

The Trains

The museum’s demonstration railroad runs on standard‑gauge track that now reaches almost one mile from the museum’s West Henrietta barn to the Midway station and connects to the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum about two miles away. Its operating fleet includes former Philadelphia and Western interurban trolleys 161 and 168, New York State Railways Rochester‑Eastern Rapid Railway car 157 (now on Baldwin interurban trucks), Elmira, Wavery & Corning Railway car 107, Rochester Transit Corporation sand car 0243, Rochester City & Brighton Railroad horse car 55, a former SEPTA wood‑bodied snow‑sweeper C‑130, the Northern Texas Traction Company body 409, New York State Railways Rochester Lines body 437, a former NJ Transit PPC car 7, and a former PTC snow‑sweeper C‑125, all supplemented by Fairmont track cars and diesel locomotives for mixed‑traffic service.