Buffalo, NY's Flour-by-Rail Legacy Project (FBRLP)

Chris Webster · **Joined:** Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:45 am **Posts:** 1034

A January 28, 2021 news story from the NBC affiliate in Buffalo, NY:

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A historic boxcar is seeing new life as a railroad exhibit that will soon be on display at Buffalo's Silo City.

The boxcar, which used to move grain through the Queen City on the Buffalo Creek Railroad, will be bought and moved by the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum (R&GVRRM) to Buffalo through a $10,000 CSX Community Grant. CSX succeeded the Buffalo Creek Railroad.

Currently, the boxcar sits in a CSX railyard in Rochester, and the museum intends to make the move in the spring of 2021. The boxcar, according to the museum, served Buffalo for nearly a century. It began operation in the 1860s.

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The boxcar acquisition and move is part of the Flour-by-Rail Legacy Project (FBRLP), which aims to preserve four historic pieces of railroad equipment related to flour milling, like this one.

“Preserving Buffalo Creek boxcar 3424 has always been the heart and soul of the Flour-by-Rail Legacy Project,” said Charlie Monte Verde, FBRLP Founder.

Link to story, which includes artist renderings and a photo of the boxcar: New railroad exhibit coming to Silo City

They have a GoFundMe page here: Flour-by-Rail Legacy Project: Phase I

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6471

Buffalo Creek Railroad boxcar # 3424 has now been moved to Buffalo, New York. It will supposedly be joined by some additional boxcars.

Les

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:15 pm

Before the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the rebuilding of the Welland Canal, Buffalo was as far East as the big Lake Boats could go. Buffalo became the place where US grain was milled to make flour, cereal etc. Remember the picture of Niagara Falls on the Shredded Wheat box.

Thus, the significance of the flour sack on the BCK boxcar.

Phil Mulligan

Buffalo, NY's Flour-by-Rail Legacy Project (FBRLP)

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