New York Railroads©

Edited by Tom Trencansky, Dryden, NY
publicity@newyorkrailroads.com
www.newyorkrailroads.com
   E-News39   February 29, 2012  

      Amherst Railway Society train show with 22,000 attending!   Photo by Tom Trencansky

Hello Friends and Railfans:

Happy Leap Day.  This is that extra day that we all get every few years to catch up on everything we need to do.  Winter, . . it's been an interesting winter to date, no?   We've gone from our tradition of hosting a train photograph or train painting at the top of the page to one at the Amherst Show in January.  Who says "nobody" attends train shows anymore?  Over 22,000 in attendance and literally hundreds of displays in four buildings.  People like trains!  All aboard!!

Empire State Passenger Association offered a tremendous look at Amtrak across New York State at the recent rail marketing meeting held in Utica. Amtrak ridership looks good across the entire state and part of the meeting was to discuss  capturing some of those Amtrak passengers to detrain at stations and explore other NYS rail attractions.  Check out their website!  www.esparail.org 

FREE one-page calendar - Download a 2012 calendar featuring a D&H PA view:
                        www.newyorkrailroads.com/NYRcalendar.pdf 

NEW or modified  New York State websites associated with rail organizations, these will be added to the New York Railroad link pages within the next couple weeks:

Thanks to readers that sent notes and suggestions.  The New York Railroads website continues to grow with more new links.  We still need to know about restored stations, hobby shops, local train shows & more.  This is a “participation” website, let us know what is missing!  

HISTORY, especially railroad history, is always around us.  Think you know a lot about New York Railroads??  Have you ever heard of the "Forty & Eight"?  Oneida County and Utica are home to New York State's preserved 40 & 8 boxcar.  Check out this piece of history at: www.newyorkrailroads.com/fortyandeight   Did you know that?

Norfolk Southern News - Hottest news this month concerned a new heritage program to Norfolk Southern.  They have committed to paint and operate a fleet of modern diesels in "retro"-style paint schemes, everything from painting a locomotive in New York Central and Pennsylvania RR color scheme to Erie, Lackawanna, CNJ and more.  Check out the information: 
Official NS press release: www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/News%20Releases/2012/ns_heritage.html  
Color graphics of locomotives: www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Media/images/heritage_images.html

Featured TRAIN SHOW – Sunday, MARCH 4 - Hudson Train & Toy Show at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 State Route 23, Hudson, NY 10am - 3pm.  Show benefits the Columbia-Greene Community Foundation.  Check it out!

Vintage Railroad Audio www.vintagerailroadaudio.com - New York railroading at its best!  Organizing rail information on New York State can have some pleasant surprises.  Searching for “all things rail” in the state led me to this website and some communication with its owner, Jay Winn from New Hartford, NY [Utica area].  Believe it or not, I had met Jay back in the early ‘70’s, nearly 40 years ago.  He has a fantastic collection of rail audio recordings and offers them for sale – check out his website.  I received one called ALCO Potpourri and was amazed by the quality and variety of the recordings.  You have to hear the first track as a D&H mechanic fires up a C-628 at the Binghamton enginehouse, amazing.  CD has D&H, CP, Adirondack Scenic, even a New York Central RS-1.  Sounds I recall from a time that I “wore a younger man’s clothes”.  Even better, in emailing, he offered to make a special New York Railroads Special Edition CD and offer it for a special price of $10/postpaid.  I checked out a sample – very nice!  Recordings include: PRR steam, D&H steam & diesel, NYC, Erie Limited, etc.  78 minutes of New York rail sounds! 

Susquehanna Valley Chapter, NRHS is celebrating its 50^th Anniversary in 2012 and will host a special event on Saturday, April 14^th in Endwell, NY.  For more information, check out the schedule below.

Arcade & Attica RR has their 2012 schedule listed on a PDF file, click here to open or download it: A&A schedule [right click to download to your computer] 

SEND information.  This e-newsletter is generally only sent once per month..  Feel free to send dates for all train shows, future, even summer events across the state and we will get them listed early.  Remember, this information goes to more than 10,000 addresses.   Remember, the brand-new New York Railroads is up and running, offering connections to over 200 NYS rail-oriented organizations, hobby shops, railroads, museums and much more.  Maybe the site should be should be called "Rail New York".  And, keep this in mind, we have another 50+ organizations in which to pursue more information and tie them into the "spiderweb" of New York Railroads in the site.  Check it out.  [Always, . . open to new suggestions, sites, and corrections.]  Next E-News will be sent to everyone about March 27th, please send news and events for the listing to this editor before March 20th to be included.  As always, looking for your input, suggestions and comments.  Tom Trencansky