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Archive: July, 2009...
Subway Confessions: Simply Good Times
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Tags: Broad Street, Brown Street, Charles Street, Court Street, Jay Street, memory, Nick Tahoe's, Rochester Subway tunnel, Scio Street, South Avenue, story, ticket booth
Posted in Rochester Subway, Rochester Subway Stories | 1 Comment »
This Sunday July 19, Is Trolley Time…
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
This Sunday, July 19 2009, RochesterSubway.com will be in Rush NY at the New York Museum of Transportation 
Tags: Chevy Equinox hydrogen fuel cell electric car, New York Museum of Transportation, NY, rail transit, Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, Rush, substation tour, trolley, trolley rides
Posted in Events, Rochester Destinations, Train/Railroad Stuff | No Comments »
A Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg Germany
Monday, July 6th, 2009
I hope you like model trains. Because if you don’t, you’re about to get an eyeful. This is simply unbelievable. The Miniature Wunderland model railroad in Hamburg, Germany is the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 MILES of HO scale track! Now that’s large, but it’s not even the size of this plastic micro-world that’s most impressive—it’s all in the details. See for yourself…
(more…)Tags: Germany, Hamburg, HO scale, Miniature Wunderland, model railroad, track, trains
Posted in Art + Culture, Train/Railroad Stuff, Video | 2 Comments »
Maggie on Ren Square, “This is no fast ferry”
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
In a recent post I implored our readers to send Maggie Brooks an email and request that she listen to Mayor Duffy’s concerns about the Renaissance Square project. It took a while but I actually did receive a response from Ms. Brooks. There no big surprises in it. As expected she defends the project citing the federal dollars, potential new jobs, and the 11 years it’s taken the project to get off the ground (11 years and still counting). But there are a few points that seem rather curious to me—one of which is a “full return on investment [for taxpayers] within seven years. Sure sounds dreamy. Here’s Maggies full response…
Tags: Center City, city planning, downtown Rochester, economic development, high speed rail, highspeed rail, infrastructure, Maggie Brooks, Main Street, mass transit, Mayor Duffy, Monroe County, New York, NY, public transportation, Renaissance Square, Rochester, transportation center, urban revitalization
Posted in Interviews, Opinion, Rochester News, Transit + Infrastructure, Urban Development | No Comments »
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