We currently meet at the New Berlin Public Library on the first Monday of every month.

Monday, June 5, 2000 - Reviving the C&CV Railroad

NEW BERLIN--The revival of the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad will
be the main topic of the Monday, June 5 meeting of the Unadilla Valley
Railway Society. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the
New Berlin Village Library. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to
attend.

Aric Peery will give a slide presentation about the C&CV's 1999 season,
when the railroad's present owner, the Leatherstocking Railway Historical
Society, began running excursion trains between Milford and Cooperstown.
Excursion operations began with a late start after Memorial Day and
continued until the successful Halloween and Santa trains at the end of the
year.

Peery's presentation will also highlight the events leading up to the
reopening of the railroad. The line had not been used regularly in at least
15 years, so much track and roadbed rehabilitation had to take place.
Ballast was brought in on a 31-car train with a leased Green Mountain
locomotive.

Peery is employed by the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society as an
administrative assistant. He has been a member of the society since 1989,
and he presently holds the appointed office of archivist/curator.