FCTT HiRailers

04/30/2026

It may not feel like it today 🥶, but fair season is coming quickly! 🎡 🎢 🎆

📣 All aboard! NEXT STOP, HEMLOCK FAIR!

🚂 Look for our huge operating layout at the Hemlock Fair July 21st-25th....and because more is better.... also look for our "smaller" Thomasville (no, not THAT Thomas) layout operating at the Ontario County Fair ALSO from July 21st-25th!!

What trains do you hope to see on our layout this summer? Let us know!

04/28/2026

Heads up folks, Big Boy 4014 East Coast Schedule is now available!

01/03/2026

01/03/2026

12/19/2025

Kick off the new year with us! Head over to the Little Finger Lakes Center, right across from Hemlock Fairgrounds in Hemlock NY! We're pleased to welcome you to the first train show at the home of the layout built in honor of late FCTT member Gary Patterson... The Cherel Valley Railroad.
🚆 January 3rd, 10-4. See you there! 🚆

12/16/2025

🚂January 3rd (10 am- 4 pm)... start the New Year on the right side of the tracks! Join us at Little Finger Lakes Center 4705 S. Main Street, Hemlock, in the gym for a TRAIN SHOW!! Local author of The Elf Chronicles, Rollond Eddy, will be there signing books! https://www.facebook.com/theelfchronicles
Come visit the Cherel Valley Railroad train room, which has plenty of activities to keep the young and the young at heart interested. Take the opportunity to BE LIKE GARY (aka Bubba) and find all types of trains and train accessories you didn't even know you needed on sale in the gym!!🚂
*Sponsored by Little Finger Lakes Center and FCTT HiRailers

12/04/2025

It's the most wonderful time of the year .... Train Season! Coming up next weekend, the RIT Tiger Tracks train show returns! December 13th and 14th at the Gordon Field House! Don't miss it! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BsupEogVc/

09/24/2025

Time to get this spooky party started! The Pumpkin Patch is rolling into the Genesee Valley Railroad Museum this weekend and will be hanging around until the first weekend in November. We'll be there, bringing the spooky vibes to our layout and waiting to give you a warm welcome... or a good scare (you should see us without coffee)! FAMILY FRIENDLY Autumn fun for all ages! Buy your tickets to ride....if you dare!

Located just 20 minutes from downtown Rochester, the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is New York State's largest railroad museum!

09/22/2025

For our 35th Anniversary, we made the brave (insane) attempt to run 35 trains on our layout over the course of 2 days. There were moments of glory, hiccups, and more than a few oops-a-daisies. The dispatcher has significantly less hair now than when the show began, and we're pretty sure it has nothing to with the locomotive that kept flipping into reverse without warning.... overall it was a fantastic couple of days and we can't wait to do it again! PUMPKIN PATCH shows at the Rochester Genesee Valley Railroad Museum begin this coming weekend, stay tuned!

09/21/2025

Day 2 of the 5th Annual Hemlock Train Show is rockin down the rails!