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The railway was previously called Oneonta Street Railway (1888-1897), Oneonta & Otego Valley Railroad (1897-1900), Oneonta, Cooperstown & Richfield Springs Railway (1900-1906), Oneonta & Mohawk Valley Railway (1906-1908), Otsego & Herkimer Railroad (1908-1916), Southern New York Power & Railway Co. (1916-1924), and Southern New York Railroad ...
It was built in 1901 and is a one-story, rectangular, timber frame building 20 feet by 91 feet. It was built by the short line Unadilla Valley Railway and also served the separate line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad branch to Richfield Springs, New York. It ceased use as a station in 1960 and is now home to the Bridgewater ...
The line the Central New York Railroad (CNYK) originally operated on, which was a 21.7-mile (34.9 km) branch line between Richfield Junction near Cassville and Richfield Springs, New York, was first opened in November 1872, when it began serving as a branch for the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway. [2]
The area of Richfield Springs was called Ga-no-wan-ges by the Oneida Indians which translated to "stinking water". [5] The village was once served by the Southern New York Railroad, an electric trolley line that ran from Oneonta to Mohawk. [6] It began service through Richfield Springs in the summer of 1902. [7]
The Richfield Springs branch was scrapped in 1998 after being out of service for years; much of the right of way was purchased in 2009 by Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley LLC of Richfield Springs, New York, which as of 2022 operates a narrow-gauge tourist railway Richfield Springs Scenic Railway on a portion of the line and a walking ...
Two extensions of the C&SV were authorized by the state of New York. The first extension, completed in 1869, ran from Cooperstown to Richfield Springs, but it was abandoned in 1941. [7] The second extension, completed in 1885, ran from its southern terminus to the 'Hemlocks' on the Charlotte creek in the town of Davenport. It was later ...
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The Delaware Otsego Corporation (DO) is an American railroad holding company that is headquartered in Cooperstown, New York. [1] [2] The company was established in 1965 as the Delaware Otsego Railroad by Walter G. Rich, and they began to specialize in reactivating abandoned branch lines as profitable short line railroads throughout New York and New Jersey.