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Day Out With Thomasİ
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For over five years, the Western New York Railway Historical Society has worked with the Medina Railroad Museum to help bring Thomas the Tank Engineİ to Medina, New York. Each spring, Thomasİ delights thousands of young and old visitors to the museum with a 45 minute ride down the Falls Road Railroad. The Falls Road Railroad supplies the power and locomotive crew and the WNYRHS adds the New York Central Coaches and Safety Crew. |
| There are actually five Thomas' running around the country. All were built by the Strasburg Railroad's Mechanical Department. One Thomasİ "lives" at Strasburg and is a 0-6-0T live steamer built from Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal #15. His four brothers are unpowered replicas which are placed at the head end of the train and the sponsoring railroads' diesel at the other end. One is owned by the National Railway Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Green Bay has the "franchise" for "Day Out With Thomasİ" events in Wisconsin and the East Coast. Others are owned by Illinois Rail Museum which covers the midwest and there is at least one outfit on the west coast. The Strasburg owned rebuild of the BEDT 0-6-0T supplies that one (for a large fee) for Day Out With Thomasİ" operators who want the real steam locomotive. The live steam costs considerably more to use than the replica unpowered Thomas'. | ) |
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Over two weekends in May of 2009, the Medina Railroad Museum sponsored 12, 45 minute trips each of the three days, for a total of 72 trips! At the end of the last Sunday, over 13,000 Thomasİ fans were brought safely back to the Depot where they were greeted by Sir Topham Hattİ. This year, Senior Safety Conductor Dave F. took charge of the rails from old Rick H., and now has officially rode more miles behind Thomasİ than anyone. Thanks Dave for all your dedicated work! | ) |
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The WNYRHS, Inc. P.O. Box 416, Buffalo, NY. 14231-0416 is an independent organization and has no affiliation with any other local or national group. The Society is a fully qualified organization under 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and all donations to the Society are tax deductible. This page last updated on May 31st, 2009 İCopyright 1999 - 2009 WNYRHS Inc. all rights reserved
