Falls Road Railroad
| Falls Road Railroad Co. Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat |
Batavia , New York ,
|
| management | David J. Monte Verde |
| Branch | Rail transport |
| Website | https://www.gvtrail.com/falls-road-railroad.html |
The Falls Road Railroad ( AAR reporting as mark: FRRR) is a Class-3 local railroad - railway company in the northwest of the State of New York . The company of Genesee Valley Transportation (GVT) owns a route running in an east-west direction through the counties of Niagara , Orleans and Monroe with a total length of 67.1 km and operates rail freight transport there .
history
The Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad , founded in 1834 as Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad and renamed in 1850, opened a railway line between Rochester and Lockport running roughly parallel to the Erie Canal on July 1, 1852 . The railway company went into the New York Central Railroad (NYC) in 1853 , which used the railway line for inter-regional connections via Rochester to Niagara Falls and introduced the name Falls Road . Passenger traffic ceased in 1957, but significant freight traffic continued. Via Penn Central , the route came to Conrail in 1976 . From 1981 Conrail only used the connection for regional freight traffic and in 1994 had the tracks between Brockport and Rochester dismantled.
In 1996 the Genesee Valley Transportation Company (GVT), which at that time was already operating several other local railroads in the states of New York and Pennsylvania, founded the Falls Road Railroad (FRRR) based at GVT's headquarters in Batavia. The FRRR then took over from Conrail on October 24, 1996 the remaining section of the Lockport – Brockport route with the local rail freight traffic. Today the company has eleven employees.
Infrastructure
The Falls Road Railroad is 67.01 km long from Lockport ( milepost 58.29 of the NYC census) via Medina , Albion and Holley to Brockport (milepost 16.60 of the NYC census). There is a transition to the CSX Transportation network in Lockport . The route is laid out without steep gradients and with generous radii. The largest engineering structure on the route is a steel lattice bridge over the Erie Canal near Lockport.
In addition, the Falls Road Railroad has trackage rights to CSX infrastructure to reach the LV Niagara Yard of the CSX in Niagara Falls, about 15 miles west of Lockport . The exchange of cars with CSX generally takes place in Lockport; Niagara Falls is only approached by the Falls Road Railroad for the intermediate parking of empty freight cars.
The Falls Road Railroad operates a small depot in Lockport .
traffic
The Falls Road Railroad's freight operations primarily include the transportation of agricultural products, processed foods, ethanol , fertilizers and pesticides. The interest group Railroads of New York (RONY) puts the volume at 2000 freight wagons per year.
Falls Road Railroad freight trains usually run twice a week. An ethanol plant in Medina is also supplied with corn from the Midwest by block trains at irregular intervals , which are also hauled by CSX locomotives on the Falls Road Railroad infrastructure.
In collaboration with regional tourism / museum railways , such as the Medina-based Railway Museum , occasional passenger train rides are offered on the Falls Road Railroad.
vehicles
Like all GVT railway companies, the Falls Road Railroad almost exclusively uses diesel locomotives from the manufacturer American Locomotive Company (Alco). Master vehicles are one machine each of the type ALCO RS-11 and ALCO RS-32 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Falls Road Railroad Co. Inc. Railroads of New York (RONY), 2018, accessed on February 16, 2020 (English).
- ^ A b c Surface Transportation Board : Falls Road Railroad Co., Inc. - Acquisition and Operation Exemption - Consolidated Rail Corporation . Ed .: Federal Register . October 25, 1996 (English, full text ).
- ^ A b Brian Solomon: The Railroad Never Sleeps: 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading . Voyageur Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7603-3119-4 , pp. 40 (English).
- ^ A b Garland McKee: Alco Empire Revisited . In: Railfan & Railroad Magazine . tape 35 , no. October 10 , 2016, ISSN 0163-7266 , p. 37-38 (English).
- ^ Charlie Wood: Genesee Valley Transportation . In: Railfan & Railroad Magazine . tape 36 , no. October 10 , 2017, ISSN 0163-7266 , p. 52; 54 (English).