Rochester Subway Car 60 at Rail City Museum, Sandy Creek, NY, 1960s

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Rochester Subway Car 60 at Rail City Museum, Sandy Creek, NY, 1960s
Rochester Subway Car 60 at Rail City Museum, Sandy Creek, NY, 1960s

Local traction historian and museum member Bill Gordon poses on Car 60 while in storage at the Rail City Museum in Sandy Creek, N.Y., possibly in the late 1960s. Outdoor display has not been kind to the historic trolley car, as seen by crumbling paint and broken windows.

Rail City Museum was the first steam-operating railroad museum in the United States. Located at Sandy Pond on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario in the Town of Sandy Creek, New York, Rail City offered visitors an opportunity to view an extensive collection of actual railroad locomotives, rail cars, streetcars, interurbans, buildings, structures, and equipment that included 16 full-size steam locomotives. The highlight of the museum was a 1.5 mile train ride with No. 11, a 2-6-0 Baldwin locomotive formerly from the Bath and Hammandsport Railroad, at the head of the train.

Rail City Museum opened on July 4, 1955, and became America's first operating railroad museum. Consisting of a private collection acquired by Dr. Stanley Groman, Rochester Subway Car 60 was loaned to his organization because we lacked our own facility at the time. The museum closed in 1974, and the collection found new homes. New York State acquired Car 60 from Rail City for possible inclusion in the new state museum.

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Taken on: January 1, 1965
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