HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, JUNE 26 “The Otsego County Trolley Line” with Historian Jim Loudon TROLLEY TALK – 6:30 p.m. “The Otsego County Trolley Line” by Jim Loudon, presented by the Westford Historical Society. Westford Fire Station, 1812 County Highway 34, Westford. Visit FB page at facebook.com/groups/150865365101863/ BLOOD DRIVE—1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Save up to three lives with the American Red Cross. Unadilla Fire Department, 77 Clifton Street, Unadilla. Register at RedCrossBlood.org…
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3-Decade Trolley Heyday Lures 75 To History Center Greater Oneonta Historical Society Executive Director Bob Brozowski, top photo, left, welcomes a standing-room-only crowd to rail historian Jim Loudon’s “The Otsego Trolley Line” lecture this afternoon at the History Center. Loudon (inset photo) recounted how the Oneonta & Otego Valley Railroad, founded in 1897, expanded to Hartwick, Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and, eventually, Mohawk, in a financially troubled 36-year history before, as the Southern NY Railroad, it finally collapsed in 1933, victim of…