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Preserving and operating locomotives are core to the mission of the Rochester Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society's
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. Our dedicated
volunteers continue to keep our seven diesel locomotives operating, our Plymouth Model BL gas-mechanical on its continued path to complete restoration, and our two steam locomotives inching ever
closer to seeing their pressure gauges leave the zero mark. To
continue to make progress at all levels on our locomotives, the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum needs your help and
financial support. Thus we have created the Locomotive Preservation Fund.
Our first goal for this fund is to match the National Railway Historical Society National Railway Heritage Grant the Rochester Chapter NRHS and its R&GV Railroad Museum received in August 2007 in
the amount of $1800.00. This NRHS grant amount will provide
funding for four of the eight new replacement locomotive starting
batteries needed for Lehigh Valley Railroad ALCO RS-3m #211. The
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum needs your help to raise the funds for the other four to make a complete set of
eight. This now one-of-kind "Hammerhead" RS-3m is operational,
but currently can not start itself. New batteries will allow the
engine to be started and operated with ease on the museum's
demonstration railroad. The museum wants to raise the funds as soon as possible so the batteries can be purchased and installed in time to allow the engine to operate for a portion of the museum's 2008 operating season.
Would you please help us achieve this first goal in the coming
months? Donations to the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad
Museum and the Rochester Chapter NRHS are tax deductible to the
extent allowable by law. Please consider a donation online today via PayPal.
Donations can also be made via the mail. Please make your donation check payable to the Rochester Chapter NRHS and mail it to:
Locomotive Preservation Fund
Rochester Chapter NRHS
P.O. Box 23326
Rochester, NY 14692-3326
Thank you!
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