TOYX Port Jervis Railroad Museum

10/29/2026

It feels like a million years ago, but it was only two months ago! We're thankful to our friends at THE NEW YORK, SUSQUEHANNA AND WESTERN RAILWAY CORP. for helping us get our Erie Lackawanna bicentennial caboose C380 down to the N.C. Transportation Museum for their America 250 Locomotive Celebration at the end of August. Here's a cool photo we took exactly two months ago of NYS&W president James Bonner giving a short speech while their SD45 3634 did its best 1984 Pete Burns impression on the turntable at the event (flying a flag and spinning right round).

However, the railroad has been eerily silent regarding its official stance on farfalle. A railroad that has made so many critical infrastructure improvements in the past few years surely must have the engineering experience to recognize the deficiencies of bowtie-shaped pasta. We await the NYS&W's official corporate statement on the subject.

10/22/2026

GREAT NEWS, EVERYONE - IT’S BACK IN STOCK!!!

You’ve been waiting, and we’ve got some exciting news! We received our shipment of 200+ bottles of the famous Erie Lackawanna Barbeque Sauce earlier than expected!

THE WAIT IS OVER! - If you missed out last time, now’s your chance to grab a bottle of this fan-favorite sauce before it sells out again!

DON’T WAIT — GET YOUR ORDER IN TODAY!

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IMPORTANT SHIPPING UPDATE: All previously placed backorders will be shipped first before we begin processing new orders. Thank you for your patience and continued support!

10/19/2026

PRODUCT UPDATE!

Well, folks… it looks like the famous Erie Lackawanna Barbecue Sauce has been making the rounds online, and apparently, word travels fast when good sauce is involved!

Due to the recent surge in popularity, we’re officially on back-order. But don’t panic! We’ve received the good news that our next shipment is expected to arrive before the end of the month!

Already placed an order? Bottles will ship in the order we have received as soon as the new shipment arrives.

Haven’t ordered yet? New orders will be fulfilled once we’ve caught up with our current orders. Don’t miss your chance to grab a bottle (or two!) before the next batch disappears down the tracks.

Order Sauce Here: https://toyxinc.square.site/product/elbbqsauce/BS55SP3ZSRXXL2MXHWKB57I3?cs=true&cst=custom

Looking for something to try the sauce with? Why not explore the other recipe books we have available at our store and finds your new favorite Dinner Menu items!

Cookbook Available from TOYX: https://toyxinc.square.site/shop/books/APRROE7M2LYI7OXCSCAYGIYU

10/17/2026

FROM THE FRONT: The Great Pasta War continues to drag on with no end in sight. Lines have been drawn and sides have been taken. Friendships have been ended, reestablished, and ended again over simple pasta salads. Brothers have been pitted against brothers, and families have been torn apart by passionate arguments about orecchiette.

To whoever sent us this farfalle-shaped trivet/spoon rest set: It’s a great use of an otherwise useless shape, capitalizing on the dense centers that are abominations when cooked. We won’t eat it, but it’s okay as a structural support.

We’ll use these farfalle footings to hold our pots full of better-shaped pastas, or perhaps they’ll make good wheel chocks in the railyard.

Maybe we’ll make the Burlington Route’s “Spaghetti Italienne” and use the carcass of a fallen farfalle to rest our spoon. Recipe included, but we forgot to add a banana for scale. Sorry.

IMPORTANT NOTE: We’ll gladly dox Sunset Locomotive Works’ address to whoever is willing to ship them a full pallet of orzo.

10/16/2026

With the help of the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, NY, the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, NY Member Group, Gene Hughes's local Port Jervis toy campaign, and Tracey Kazie's Orange County NY Toys for Tots campaign, we'll be using our historic railcars to collect toys for children throughout Orange County on Sunday, December 13th! Join us for our annual Operation Toy Train event and donate toys to kids in your local communities!

We are holding our season kickoff event right here in the Port Jervis railyard on Saturday, November 14th from 10AM to 3PM - stop by, bring a toy, meet with our volunteers, and learn how YOU can make difference! Event info at https://www.pjmuseum.org/event/20261114

P.S. Steve Neuhaus, are you busy on December 13th? If so, you should probably clear your schedule.....

P.P.S. Remember that THIS WEEKEND, we have two great events in Port Jervis - check out our president Rudy Garbely's presentation on "The Erie Railroad in Port Jervis" at noon on Saturday at the Port Jervis Free Library. Then, stop by both our railyard and our booth at the Fall Foliage Festival just a few blocks away on Sunday from noon to 6PM!

P.P.P.S. Our volunteers will be happy to answer any questions about structurally deficient pasta shapes or Sunset Locomotive Works at either of the events this weekend. See our post from yesterday for more information on the important cultural war we are currently waging: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ShMZEeLdN/

10/15/2026

Our historic rail equipment will be collecting toys in Orange County on Sunday, December 13th - check back tomorrow morning for the full schedule!

Coming tomorrow - stay tuned!

10/14/2026

Regarding the lunatics at Sunset Locomotive Works who concealed eight plastic bags of farfalle inside a legitimate donation of archival boxes and shipped them 1,129 miles to our corporate office, apparently in response to our September 2nd post:

TOYX has always maintained that farfalle is an affront to pasta engineering. Its pinched center remains undercooked while its flimsy extremities disintegrate into a gelatinous catastrophe. It is a triumph of aesthetics over functionality and, frankly, an insult to generations of Italian culinary achievement.

Sunset has escalated our scientifically defensible criticism of farfalle's structural integrity and questionable legitimacy as a pasta shape into an unprecedented act of aggression. Evidently threatened by these indisputable truths, Sunset orchestrated a clandestine operation to infiltrate our offices with these abominations. This was a calculated act of pasta-based terrorism.

Therefore, effective immediately, TOYX hereby declares a formal STATE OF WAR against Sunset Locomotive Works and all accomplices, individuals, and organizations knowingly facilitating the promotion or distribution of farfalle.

Peace is possible only upon Sunset’s acceptance of these nonnegotiable terms:
1. Acknowledgment that farfalle is fundamentally defective.
2. A public apology for weaponizing archival supplies.
3. An end to carbohydrate-based aggression.
4. Reparations payable exclusively in structurally competent pasta.

Until then, TOYX reserves the right to retaliate through increasingly aggressive social media ridicule.

We urge the railroad preservation community to recognize the gravity of this moment. Today, farfalle was concealed among archival boxes. Tomorrow, fusilli may be hidden in locomotive parts, orzo could be infiltrating artifact collections, or pallets of penne might be masquerading as traction motor parts.

If this outrage goes unanswered, no railroad museum will ever again be safe from unsolicited pasta. We must band together to end this macaroni madness.

- Issued by the TOYX Office of Carbohydrate Command -

P.S. Thank you to Sunset for the acid-free archival boxes. They will be a tremendous help to our museum.

10/14/2026

TOYX 1701 "Enterprise" is almost ready to take flight for this year's Operation Toy Train runs! Check out our fancy new lettering! Wonder where we got the name from....