Help bring home Conrail 24029!
My name is Adam Lloyd, and I am an active volunteer at the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. I have had a life-long interest in railroads, and I collect and restore old railroad signals and vintage hardware. One of my favorite railroads is Conrail, as Big Blue’s Chicago Line main line once served my hometown of Rochester, N.Y. I am very interested in preserving the history of Conrail, but I wanted to do it in a big way…

Conrail 24029 History
Recently I was offered the chance to purchase Conrail 24029, an N-10 class caboose built in 1969 by Penn Central at Altoona as part of a fleet of 50 cabooses for use on unit coal trains. No. 20249 was one of hundreds of cabooses inherited by Conrail in 1976. It saw regular service throughout the system and in western New York until it was retired in the mid-1990s and sold to a private owner near Hamburg, N.Y.

To a New Home
Over the past year, I have successfully raised enough money to purchase Conrail 24029 from the private owner. Once I had the purchase agreement in hand, the R&GV Railroad Museum agreed to allow me to store and display the caboose on their property just south of Rochester. Once 24029 has been delivered, I will be restoring the caboose to its Conrail appearance. In exchange for allowing me to store the car on their property, I have agreed to allow R&GV to use the caboose to transport visitors on their demonstration railroad.

Keep it Moving With Conrail
I have raised the money needed to purchase the car. Right now I am trying to raise $5,000 to transport the caboose from Hamburg to Rochester. Winters Rigging has agreed to make the move for me this summer. Your donation in any amount will help pay for the cost of transportation. Once the caboose has been successfully moved, and I have had the chance to clean it out and make it presentable, Conrail 24029 will be placed on public display at R&GV. I’ll post regular updates as I make progress restoring the caboose and making it ready for operation on the museum railroad. Thanks for helping preserve an important part of Northeastern railroad history!