Rochester and Southern Railroad

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Rochester and Southern Railroad
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WebsiteRochester & Southern Railroad (RSR)

The Rochester and Southern Railroad (

Genesee & Wyoming Inc., and split into two railroads, the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad and the Rochester and Southern Railroad. The Rochester branch was scrapped from Silver Springs south to Machias, New York.[1]

The RSR interchanges with

Norfolk Southern's Southern Tier Line
in Silver Springs. Since 2003, the G&W railroad ceased to be, and was made part of the Rochester and Southern.

Trackage

In Rochester, the RSR mainline splits into two lines just north of the Chili Avenue (

Kodak Park, crossing West Ridge Rd. (NY-104
) before heading north to its terminus at Matthews and Fields Lumber, another online customer, on Stonewood Avenue.

Heading south from the Chili Avenue grade crossing, the first notable area of trackage is the Brooks Avenue yard. Continuing south, the RSR interchanges with CSX at

Genesee Junction, where there are three online customers served by the RSR.[2] 12 miles farther down, the Rochester and Southern passes through P&L Junction
, its connection point with the GNWR. The line then continues south to Silver Springs, where the RSR interchanges with the Southern Tier Line in the heart of Silver Springs.

Since the merger with G&W RR, the RSR operates their track from Caledonia south to Retsof, New York. There, the old G&W engine shops are still used for the GWI locomotive fleet. From Retsof, the RSR continues south via ex-DL&W/EL track to Mount Morris (village), New York, where there is a new American Salt mine. From there, the line continues south to Dansville, NY, where two new companies occupy the former Foster-Wheeler plant: Bombardier Transportation and American Motive Power. A portion of the line from Mt Morris to Dansville is via the Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad - specifically this is from a connection in Groveland, NY between the DL&W and the DMM south to Dansville.

RSR salt train headed north, with a variety of GPs.

Notable mileposts

  • 0.0 Lincoln Park Line end
  • 1.9 Jct. with CSXT at CP-373
  • 2.4 Belt Line Junction
  • 3.5 Brooks Avenue Yard
  • 6.1 Jct. with CSXT and LAL at Genesee Jct.
  • 19.5 P&L Jct. - Caledonia
  • 50.9 Silver Springs - Jct. with NS - End track

History

The trackage owned today by the R&S, except for the GNWR subdivision, was constructed by the Rochester and State Line Railroad, which began operations on January 28, 1878, between Rochester and Salamanca (a town that is now on the RSR's sister railroad, the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad). The name changed to the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad in 1881 and was absorbed into the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway in 1886. The line was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1932, which maintained ownership of the line as the Chessie System and CSX before the line between Rochester and Silver Springs was sold to GWI in 1985. Operations under the new railroad, the Rochester and Southern, began in 1986.

The RSR main line to Silver Springs formerly continued along the B&RP/B&O lines through southern Wyoming and northern Allegany counties through Machias Junction and beyond Ashford Junction. The line between Silver Springs and Machias was abandoned and later removed in the early 1990s after sister line B&P took over operation of the southern portion of the line.

References

The Greater Rochester Railfan Page

  1. ^ Rochester & Southern Railroad, Inc.--Abandonment Exemption--in Wyoming, Allegany, and Cattaraugus Counties, NY, Docket No. AB-354 (Sub-No. 1X) (ICC served Jan. 8, 1992)
  2. ^ STB Decision: 3/31/1997 - FD_33375_0

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