That looks like a good piece of machinery, I hope that you get good use out of it. Is there any particular product you're going to set it up for?
I grew up in the metro Rochester NY area. We had some great school field trips to places of industry, in the 1950's/'60's.
Eastman Kodak
General Motors/Rochester Products
General Electric
Bausch & Lomb
Gerber's Foods
and some others I cannot recall, being an old fart now.
Bausch & Lomb showed us their glass production facility, we watched as the production line poured the incandescent molten glass onto large flat trays of I think it was molten tin. The glass would spread-out and begin to cool, in a flat layer/shape. We were feet-away with a thick glass wall between the float glass and us, but you could still feel the radiant heat of the glass being manufactured.
Rochester had its location on the Genessee River providing a supply of cheap electrical power, and back starting in the 1820's a place along the Erie Canal. The locals referred to it as the 'Barge Canal.'
The area was technically-driven. I recall reading about a business which apparently has a large store of parts for Lancias. The owner said, "the place we got a lot of orders from, for our Lancia parts business, was the Rochester NY area. There were a lot of engineers there, and they seemed to like buying Lancias, and keeping them operational."
The Torsen differential, used for AWD vehicles, was manufactured by the Gleason Works, another Rochester company.
Some fun facts about Rochester NY, from another thread/post:
