TOYX Port Jervis Railroad Museum

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....

10/12/2026

Check out the Port Jervis Free Library's 134th Anniversary celebration on Saturday, featuring a presentation by our museum president Rudy Garbely on the history of the Erie Railroad and its operations in Port Jervis! Attendance is FREE!

This weekend is our 134th Anniversary celebration! Make sure to take a look at all the great stuff happening, and stop by on Saturday.

10/12/2026

We really need some new aerial photos of our railyard, now that we've cleaned up so much of the property and so many of our railcars. Our volunteers have spent SO much time recently painting railcar roofs, and they're getting mad that nobody ever gets to see them.

StreamRunner Photography has offered to give it a shot, but unfortunately they don't have access to an airplane, a pilot's license, or aerodynamics in general. Instead, we're wondering if any of our followers have good leads on a local siege workshop where we can rent a trebuchet for the day so we can get StreamRunner's photographer up to the proper altitude.

Alternatively, does anyone own a large bird that we can strap a GoPro to? Maybe a stork? (If they can deliver babies, we're pretty sure they can deliver aerial reconnaissance footage.) That being said. it would be much easier if we could just find someone who is able to fly on their own, as adding a bird to this equation introduces both unpredictable flight patterns and unnecessary squawking.

If you're someone with extensive connections in impractically large medieval weaponry, unorthodox newborn delivery systems, or advanced human levitation techniques, we'd like to hear from you. Or if you happen to have a Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate and want to come take some really rad pictures of trains for us using your newfangled hovering whirlybird gizmo, that would also probably work.

📸 the Erie Railroad's Port Jervis roundhouse, circa 1936, from the Minisink Valley Historical Society collection

P.S. Does anyone know what happened to the 1971 Wonkavator after Gene Wilder was done flying around in it? We may have found the perfect preservation/adaptive reuse case for it.....

10/11/2026

Late last night, our volunteers finished adding Jack Pellington's name back onto our baggage car (TOYX 1702) after its recent repaint. Jack was with Operation Toy Train from its inception in 2009 and was the one who organized our toy collection, counting, and sorting procedures that we still use every year. We first named this car for Jack (waving in the second photo) in December 2024, before it was repainted. He sadly passed away in August 2025. We're honored to dedicate this railcar - an integral part of our toy collecting fleet - to a man who made everything we do possible.

10/11/2026

Did you miss Virtual Railfan’s live taste test of our Erie Lackawanna BBQ Sauce back in August?? Well, here it is! Mike and Drayton talked live streamed this at the America 250 Locomotive Celebration at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina. If you want to enjoy the same meal they did, grab a bottle today at www.toyx.org/sauce !

10/09/2026

Thanks to our friends at the NEW YORK, SUSQUEHANNA AND WESTERN RAILWAY, our three well-traveled railcars were returned safely to Port Jervis just before midnight last night. Special thanks to the NYS&W's train crews and management for a safe and efficient move after two months of our cars being out on the road, constantly stressing out our mildly neurotic President. Maybe now he will be able to sleep soundly instead of texting our Board of Directors group chat with new and exciting event ideas at 4:00 AM.

Our volunteers will be at the museum this Saturday morning (October 10th) moving our equipment around in the yard in a manner that will look aimless until we miraculously solve our turntable-based sliding block puzzle/Rubick's Cube railroad switching game to get these three returning cars into position for display. Barring any delays caused by debilitating, raucous laughter from our train crew, we will have the Conrail theater boxcar and Conrail caboose (both pictured here), along with our Chessie System caboose and museum boxcar (both not pictured here), open to the public on Sunday, October 18th. This is during the Fall Foliage Festival just a few blocks away, all while Gene Hughes staffs our table at the Festival to promote our Operation Toy Train initiative! The 18th will be our final day open for the 2026 tourist season, so make sure to come check us out and bring some of the good vibes over to our side of town.

P.S. If you bring zeppolis from the Festival over to our volunteers at the railyard on the 18th, we'll give you an exclusive, private, behind-the-scenes tour of the historic railyard, our rail equipment, our collection of mysterious parts that may or may not go to something we actually own, and our Vice President's inner monologue.

P.P.S. Since you're already coming to town for the Fall Foliage Festival on October 18th anyway, you're going to need lunch or dinner. Go to Ben's Fresh and grab an Erie Lackawanna Burger, made with our recreated Erie Lackawanna BBQ Sauce from the original 1965 recipe and available only through the end of the month! (Be sure to ask Chef Bobby to make it with extra love, it tastes better that way.)

10/07/2026

We've leased this new caboose from The Garbely Publishing Company and will be adding it as a display in 2027!

We are pleased to announce that The Garbely Publishing Company has acquired Canadian National caboose ("van") No. 79462! Learn more at https://mailchi.mp/garbelypublishing/20261006