![]() It reopened January 18 following two days of cleanup. The presence of mangled intermodal cars in the southbound lanes of Lincoln Road, as well as one teetering on the edge of the bridge, forced the closure of the road. As in 1969, no one was injured in the accident. Overall, eight wells and 15 to 20 containers came off the rails. The wreckage extended west from South Lincoln along East Maple Avenue to Madison Street as derailed cars crushed a number of vehicles parked alongside the tracks and dumped intermodal containers into the front yards of residents on Maple. On January 16, 2007, a 13-car CSX intermodal train traveling 60 mph (97 km/h) and carrying retail goods partially derailed at the South Lincoln underpass, spilling at least five containers and two intermodal wells onto the road below. The first occurred on Octowhen a 30-car Penn Central freight train carrying produce derailed onto West Maple Avenue (which, along with East Maple Avenue, runs parallel to the tracks between NY 153 and South Lincoln Road), crushing numerous automobiles and toppling telephone poles. Two derailments have occurred on the double-track mainline railroad running through East Rochester. In 1981, the village became a coterminous town and village. ![]() The United States Post Office (East Rochester, New York) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. East Rochester is the smallest community in the world to win either a Little League or Senior Little League World Championship. On August 20, 1966, a Little League baseball team from East Rochester captured the Senior Little League World Championship by defeating La Habra California 4-2 in Des Moines, Iowa. The village was divided between the towns of Perinton, Pittsford, and Penfield. To better showcase the village's proximity to the city of Rochester, the village was incorporated as the Village of East Rochester in 1906. The original buildings of the Aeolian Piano Corporation are still in use today as a shopping center and office complex called Piano Works Mall. This land was used to develop housing for employees of the earliest employers: The Merchants Despatch Corporation and the Aeolian Piano Corporation. Much of the original land which became the village came from Fairport businessman Walter Parce. Despatch was laid out as a planned community designed around the New York Central Railroad mainline that ran through the center of the village. The village of East Rochester was originally known as the Village of Despatch when the community was incorporated in 1897. Most of the southern boundary is delimited by New York State Route 31F. The village, home to approximately 6,600 people, is surrounded by Pittsford on the west side and by Perinton to the east. East Rochester is a coterminous town and village located southeast of the City of Rochester in Monroe County, New York, United States.
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