Fairport & Erie Canal Shop

04/04/2025

03/01/2025

Always wanted to bike the length of the canal? Cycle the Erie happens July 12-20 this year!

If you’ve been thinking about cycling the Erie Canal, this is the year to do it! Check this epic journey off your bucket list when you participate in Parks & Trails New York’s Cycle the Erie Canal. You’ll join over 700 riders from Buffalo to Albany on a fully supported, once-in-a-lifetime cycling trip, packed with educational talks and tours, special events and visits to communities and historic sites along the way. One of the most immersive ways to experience the Erie Canal and commemorate the bicentennial! Sign up now: https://buff.ly/2khBA5M

02/20/2025

Calling all rail fans! New book just in!

The Finger Lakes region of New York, once dominated by major railroads like the New York Central, now thrives through modern short line railroads that preserve its rich transportation legacy.

Named after a group of inland lakes that populate the region in New York State, the Finger Lakes is home to a wide variety of agricultural, commercial, and industrial businesses. Serving those businesses are a group of short line railroads utilizing the tracks built by their fallen flag predecessors who helped make the Finger Lakes what it is today. For decades, railroads like the New York Central and Lehigh Valley hustled passengers and freight to and from the region, dominating the Finger Lakes railroad scene. However, this would all change in the 1970s. Between the formation of Amtrak, the increasing popularity of transportation through airplanes, automobiles, buses, and trucks, increasing labor costs, declining industrial business, and the resulting formation of Conrail, the golden age of the railroads ended. At the same time, however, a new era was ushered in with today’s modern short line railroads leading the way. These are the stories of the railroads that built the Finger Lakes.

01/29/2025

Our beloved Erie Canal turns 200 this year!!

05/28/2024

Beautiful and functional Grandville Hollow Pottery made for us in Julian, Pennsylvania!

03/28/2024

Getting closer to boat time!

03/18/2024

03/01/2024

New Fairport blocks in. ❤️ 💙