Jare Cardinale of The Salamanca (N.Y.) Rail Museum will be the speaker at this month’s Fireside Pumper’s breakfast on Wednesday at Togi’s Banquet Room on East Main Street in Bradford.
The breakfast meetings are sponsored by the Penn Brad Oil Museum.
The Salamanca facility is a fully restored passenger depot constructed in 1912 by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway. Cardinale will discuss the artifacts, photos and video presentations housed in the museum which allow you to experience an era over 90 years ago when rail was the primary mode of transportation from city to city.
The Rail Museum building was acquired in 1980, a vandalized vacant shell that had stood idle for over 20 years. Using a combination of private donations, government funds, and volunteer labor, the building was brought back to its original appearance.
The breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. and is open to the public. The cost is $12, a portion of which goes to the museum to support the day-to-day operations and upkeep of the facility.
