Pinch Yourself!
In Age Of Automobile, Steam
Power Returns To Cooperstown
If you hurry, you may get a chance to see a rarity in Cooperstown: A steam engine, now paused across Route 28 from the Price Chopper parking lot. Part of the 150th celebration of the Milford-based Coopertown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, the train is proceeding to the former Glen Avenue crossing in the next few minutes, before returning to the anniversary celebrations in Milford. Inset, conductor Bruce Hodges, president, the Leatherstocking Railroad Historical Society, chats with Roy Davis, the engine’s owner, who trucked it over from Dunkirk to participate in this weekend’s festivities. At left is Scott Symans, who accompanied Davis, who said he bought the engine in Virginia and renovated it. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)