Riding The Rails!

Editor's Note: This post was started in November 2025, shortly after we had our riding adventure. It is being finished in Mid-January.

Several weeks (months) ago in October, Buds and I took advantage of the extended Autumn that Rochester enjoyed this year and we had an interesting adventure riding a special pedal cart that rolls along on decommissioned railroad tracks.

We signed up with Finger Lakes Rail Riders for a lovely Sunday morning ride. We were the first to arrive, which gave me extra time to pet the resident pupper. The ride happens on a decommissioned stretch of tracks that run though farm land.

The ride out were were packed together.

We had a walkie-talkie strapped on the front of our cart, and the tour guide at the front shared facts and data on the peddle out to the turn around point. After about a 45 minute ride into through the country side, we spun the cars around. Like this large engine, but in miniature:

It was a gorgeous, crisp, sunny day, and we loved being out there together.

Each car had a name for a nearby lake, and we were on this one:

The ride out to the turn around was slow and measured, all of us trailing along behind the guide.

After the turn around, the people who has been at the back got to set the pace for the trip back and they took off at a Tour de France pace, just for the sheer joy of it. Buds and I were the third from the front on the way back, and we loved the chance to create a little space between all of us.

Back in the car about 2 hours after we'd first arrived at the tiny train depot. Chilled and happy.

We won't feel the need to do it again, but it was a trip worth taking.