by Benjamin Maggi
I occasionally search EBay for train slides related to the C&CV railroad in Cooperstown, NY. In the process, I usually run across postcards for sale showing the "Leatherstocking Line" steam train which ran in the 1960s-1970s at the Woodland Museum. The steam engine is a small Porter (0-4-0) and the coaches are green with white bands along the windows and a red roof.
This link has a brochure of the place: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27332539@N07/6785392257
The brochure reads in part:
The Busch Family (lead by Louis Busch Hagar Sr) gamely tried to make a good of a museum in Cooperstown near Three Mile Point and on the wooded and elevated grounds of their estate - Farmlands & Uncas Farm. On lake road announcing the museum were wooden life-size Clydesdale horses
"Home of the Clydesdales"
The Woodland Museum, part of Cooperstown's Village of Museums, was opened as an "adventure in nature and history" in 1962. This museum evolved from an educational institution focused on Cooperstown and New York State through a branding change that strengthened the museum's connections to the Busch family and the Anheuser-Busch Company, primarily through the use of Clydesdale imagery.
The Woodland Museum, founded by Louis Busch Hagar, Sr., began like earlier Busch family properties, including Grant's Farm in St. Louis, Missouri, and Busch Gardens in Pasadena, California, by turning private holdings into places for public visitation.
The NJ Museum of Transportation's website says the railroad closed in 1974 and the train was sold to a place in Lake George.
http://www.njmt.org/number_3.htm
I am not from that area of NY but would like to learn more of this railroad and what happened to it. Having visited Cooperstown, I can't picture where the ROW for a circular train ride would have been. Can anyone tell me more about the operation when it was in Cooperstown? Thanks.
This link has a brochure of the place: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27332539@N07/6785392257
The brochure reads in part:
The Busch Family (lead by Louis Busch Hagar Sr) gamely tried to make a good of a museum in Cooperstown near Three Mile Point and on the wooded and elevated grounds of their estate - Farmlands & Uncas Farm. On lake road announcing the museum were wooden life-size Clydesdale horses
"Home of the Clydesdales"
The Woodland Museum, part of Cooperstown's Village of Museums, was opened as an "adventure in nature and history" in 1962. This museum evolved from an educational institution focused on Cooperstown and New York State through a branding change that strengthened the museum's connections to the Busch family and the Anheuser-Busch Company, primarily through the use of Clydesdale imagery.
The Woodland Museum, founded by Louis Busch Hagar, Sr., began like earlier Busch family properties, including Grant's Farm in St. Louis, Missouri, and Busch Gardens in Pasadena, California, by turning private holdings into places for public visitation.
The NJ Museum of Transportation's website says the railroad closed in 1974 and the train was sold to a place in Lake George.
http://www.njmt.org/number_3.htm
I am not from that area of NY but would like to learn more of this railroad and what happened to it. Having visited Cooperstown, I can't picture where the ROW for a circular train ride would have been. Can anyone tell me more about the operation when it was in Cooperstown? Thanks.
Benjamin L. Maggi
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