Monorail, monorail, MONORAIL!!!

This would appear to be the last year for the monorail at the Midtown Plaza in downtown Rochester. An announcement was made this fall that the historic building with attached office tower will be razed to provide space to build a new corporate headquarters for Paytec.

My wife and I took the kids to ride the monorail one last time and to visit Santa. We also went across Clinton Ave. on the Skyway bridge to see the H.O. train display in the Chase Concourse. It's good to see that improvements are made from year to year on the 4 display layouts maintained by the Rochester Model Railroad Club.

While talking to the monorail operator we discovered that the fate of the attraction like the monorail itself is litteraly up in the air. The Rochester holiday institution ws offered to the Strong Museum of Play who expressed no interest in taking the 50+ year old train. I'm anxious to hear the fate of this unique holiday attraction, I hate the thought of it ending up as scrap metal or disappearing to a far off land... Time will tell.