THE GREATER ROCHESTER RAILFAN PAGE
ROCHESTER AREA SHORTLINE RAILROADS
GENESEE VALLEY TRANSPORTATION
Genesee Valley Transportation (GVT), based in Batavia, has been slowly acquiring various secondary and industrial trackage that Conrail and other class one railroad no longer maintained an interest in. GVT has grown into a profitable company with shortline railroads throughout upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Alco fans won't take long to fall in love with GVT's shortlines - 4-axle Alco Century series and RS series engines comprise the vast majority of power used by GVT, much of it from Canada. A sprinkling of GE center-cab switchers and MLW engines can be found throughout the system.
Founded in 1983 by entrepreneur David J. Monte Verde, Genesee Valley Transportation Company Inc. initially was established to market and broker railway rolling stock. Acquiring motive power (much of it Alco) for prospective leasing arrangements, Monte Verde, along with associates Charles Reidmiller and Michael Thomas, expanded the company's leasing services from its home base in Batavia, N.Y. Start-up of a shortline railroad became the long-term goal, and on August 1, 1989, GVT began operations of the Depew, Lancaster & Western Railroad with ex-Central Vermont RS11 3600 (the first RS-11 ever built) and ex-D&H RS3 4085. (Trains, 11/97)
- Falls Road Railroad
- Depew Lancaster & Western
- Mohawk Andirondack & Northern
- Lowville & Beaver River
- Delaware-Lackawanna
While not a part of the GVT family, here is a link to my unofficial page for the Andirondack Scenic Railroad, which enjoys trackage rights along the Mohawk, Adirondak & Northern's southern end.
David Monte Verde and GVT featured on the front page of the New York Times!!
Click here to read the article
Message from David...
"I must add that I could not have done it without my partners Mike Thomas, Jeff Baxter, Chuck Riedmiller, & John Herbrand, who form the team that make up GVT."
GVT Locomotive
Roster
(as of 1/24/03 - by road #)
Click an engine # for a picture (not all photos are mine - credit given to the webmasters to the pages where the pictures are linked to - http://www.dnaco.net/~gelwood/ , http://utica.railfan.net, http://www.railroad.net, http://www.geocities.com/scrantontrains/ and others).
Note: Power not owned or leased by GVT will not appear here. The shops in South Scranton also stores and performs contract work for other railroads and locomotive owners - which explains the occasional odd sightings at their yard.
