Finger Lakes Railway All Time Locomotive Roster

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In 1988 ATSF Rebuilt
16 of their B23-7 units.
(2310 also received
FB2 trucks at some point, but uncertain when. |
| FGLK
Rolling Stock Roster:
Some of the rolling stock
heritage data below comes from Joe Shaw's
detailed FGLK rolling stock pages.
thanks Joe! Other data is from my own research, my photos over the years, and from FGLK. FGLK
Cabooses:
FGLK currently owns three cabooses, two ex-Penn Central transfer cabooses, and one former B&O bay window caboose.
Passenger
Cars:
Finger Lakes Railway bought its first passenger cars, four ex-VIA Rail cars, for excursion service, in 1998. In 2009 FGLK owns seven passenger cars, (6 coaches and one baggage car.)
Passenger car data sources: http://www.trainweb.org/passengercars/Indices/E2.htm http://regulations.vlex.com/vid/exemption-petitions-finger-lakes-railway-34027282 http://www.railroad.net/forums//viewtopic.php?f=128&t=21220 http://www.krunk.org/%7Ejoeshaw/pics/fglk/index.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Lakes_Railway Mr. Sylvanus D. Plus my own additional research, my photos, and Finger Lakes Railway. thanks everyone! :) Boxcars: FGLK owns 24 boxcars of Milwaukee Road heritage, built in 1972. FGLK 24000 - 24023. see Joe's page here for more detail on these cars. And possibly as many as 256 boxcars in the 26000 series, although it is not known if every number slot in that series actually contains a car.. anyone know?
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| Units
leased by FGLK:
In
the early days of the FGLK, 1995-1996,
several units were leased for a time to get things up and running:
B&P
EMD GP9 #879 was leased for a time from 19?? to
19??. B&P
EMD GP9 #207 was leased beginning in 19??
BDLX
1355, an ex-NS high-hood GP40, was leased briefly in 2001.
GSRX
EMD SW-9 #708 - Originally leased by Ontario Central in 1996
and based in
Click
here
for more photos of #708.
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| A history of the Finger Lakes Railway.. The
first railroad that makes up part of today's FGLK system wound its way
For
well over a Century, from the 1850's
to the 1960's,
this line would be known Today,
most of the "Auburn Road" makes up the East-West mainline of the
FGLK, The
next railroad that is today part of the FGLK arrived in 1851,
the Canandaigua The
PRR Elmira branch was used to haul coal from the PA coal fields to Lake
Today,
a remnant of the PRR Elmira branch is operated by FGLK between
And
the third major Class-1 railroad making up today's FGLK system was the
The
NYC and PRR merged in 1968
to form Penn Central, and PC in turn became Conrail
operated the former NYC and PRR lines around Geneva from
In 1995
Conrail sold its "Geneva Cluster" to the newly formed Finger Lakes
Railway. Finger
Lakes Railway operates its first train on July 23, 1995.
1995-
July - FGLK starts up with three GP9
locomotives,
1701, 1702 and 1703,
The FGLK owns and operates (in 1995)
two seperate routes, a remnant of the
A third piece of FGLK trackage is the remnant of former LVRR mainline
FGLK's main access to the outside world is Conrail, which it
interchanges
FGLK also interchanges with the Susquehanna railroad at Solvay, and with
FGLK is jointly owned by Farmrail System,Inc. 1998
- A fourth GP9 joins the roster, number 1751, which had previously been
1998
-FGLK purchases four ex-VIA Rail passenger coaches for a planned
excursion business. 199? - The 5th unit arrives, GP10 1801, the "Mountain Laurel" unit. 1999-
June - Conrail ends its sucessful 23 year
reign, when it is sold and split-up
NS takes over, from Conrail, the former Erie "Southern Tier Main"
CSX takes over the original New York Central mainline from
Conrail, 1999-
June - the all-EMD all-GP streak is broken
by the arrival of three GE B23-7 200?
- A Fourth GE arrives, U23B 2211. (later 2201)
2001 - October - FGLK begins passenger excursions,
using four ex-VIA Rail coaches 2001 - FGLK purchases its first two cabooses, 201
and 202, both are former PC transfer cabooses 2004?
- Two more B23-7 units arrive, FGLK 2304 and 2305.
2004
- October -two new coaches arrive! the coaches formerly used on the
Niagara & Western NY 2005
- FGLK purchases its 7th passenger car, a full baggage car, with plans to
convert it 2005
- The other
two (of four) ex-VIA Rail coaches, "Canandaigua" and "Cayuga" , purchased in 1998, 2006
- The first unit leaves the FGLK roster. 1801, which spent its
entire
FGLK 2006 - FGLK purchases it third caboose, the former G&W 1003, which becomes FGLK 203. 2007
- FGLK takes over the Ontario Central from previous owner Livonia, Avon
2008
- March - GP9 1702 returns to previous owner, Farmrail, after 13 years
serving 2008
- Yet more B23-7's arrive, FGLK 2306 and 2307 arrive on the
property,
As of July 2008, 10 units are operating, and one (2304) is OOS in
Geneva,
2009 - April, B23-7 2305 heads
over to Fort Edward, NY, north of Albany, for some FGLK
contract
2009 - April or May, about two weeks later, FGLK
1703 joins her sister 2305 in Fort Edward. 2009 - May 9th, FGLK 2308, FGLK's 14th unit
arrives in
Geneva. 2009 - June, FGLK 2304, which
has been OOS in Geneva for two years, returns to service! 2010 - March - news first hits
the internet that a new FGLK locomotive is on the way! 2010 - April - It is confirmed
as TWO new units! FGLK 2309 and 2310. Two B23-7's, originally
Thanks to Mike Rujak, for the first photos of the new units, taken at
Mingo Junction, Ohio
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Direct links to
the
two maps above:
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http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/FGLK/FGLK-2008.gif
Roster Notes:
| Click HERE to go to the Roster Notes. |
Links and Data sources:
This page is
not
affiliated with the Finger Lakes Railway.
It is simply
one railfan's tribute page to this interesting shortline.
For the official
FGLK website, click here: Finger
Lakes Railway - Official site.
Scot Lawrence
Rochester, NY
Page started June 2008
Last updated April 12, 2010
sscotsman@yahoo.com
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