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Thatll do
Title:  Thatll do
Description:  During an August 1974 vacation, we stopped in Cooperstown, primarily to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame. While there, we also saw some of the other local attractions, one of which was the Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley, then mostly a tourist line run by Walter Rich in his pre NYSW days. This was the line he acquired after NY DOT bought out his segment of the ex NYC Ulster & Delaware in Oneonta, which became part of I 88. CACV 2 is coupled up to the excursion at Milford, and will be heading back to Cooperstown shortly.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:28:31 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Ten more feet
Title:  Ten more feet
Description:  CACV 2 is almost back on its train at Milford, just a few more feet to a hitch.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:31:40 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
Backing down
Title:  Backing down
Description:  CACV 2 has run around the train at Milford, and is now backing to the two ex CNJ cars to return to Cooperstown. Note the footboard only on the fireman's side.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:35:28 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
Run around
Title:  Run around
Description:  CACV 2 runs around its train at Milford. The cars are ex CNJ.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:37:22 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
Done for the day
Title:  Done for the day
Description:  CACV 2 has tied up at the former D&H station as a couple sitting on the adjacent track speeder take in the action.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/27/2016 3:18:46 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  384   Comments: 1
Switching too
Title:  Switching too
Description:  Anyone who rode an NYSW excursion in the 1980s was all too familiar with the trains doing some local work along the way. Walter Rich was not about to waste a good crew on a simple passenger train. It apparently was a practice he started early. CACV 2 has worked a siding during its run around move at Milford and is now taking water.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:40:37 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
Taking on water
Title:  Taking on water
Description:  Looks like with a garden hose. In the mid 1970s, especially at outlying locations such as Milford, which never had water tanks to begin with, getting water in a tender was an interesting prospect. The tender of CACV 2 is being filled with a hose from a nearby business. It took a while.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:43:57 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
Backing past
Title:  Backing past
Description:  CACV 2 passes its train as it changes ends for the trip back to Cooperstown. A pair of D&H RS 3's are in the distance. I don't know if dad got a shot of them. I kind of doubt it, but something may yet turn up.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:51:07 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  220   Comments: 0
Posed
Title:  Posed
Description:  Not the engine, my brother John, who was getting a look at the ex Army 0-6-0 at Cooperstown. It is a good roster shot of the engine.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:53:14 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
Hanging out
Title:  Hanging out
Description:  My brother John swings up on the ex Swift Premium reefer stashed on the siding at Cooperstown. He was ten that year.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:54:52 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
Excursion power
Title:  Excursion power
Description:  The Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley was Walter Richs first adventure in railroading. Started on a piece of ex NYC Delaware & Ulster in Oneonta, he moved to the ex D&H Cooperstown Branch in a swap with NY State DOT for right of way that would eventuallly become part of I 88. Walter ran trips to Milford on the branch with this ex US Army 0-6-0. Here we see it cold and stored at Cooperstown.
Photo Date:  5/19/1983  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 12:33:16 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  666   Comments: 1
Former excursion power
Title:  Former excursion power
Description:  This is the engine that worked tourist trains from Cooperstown down to Milford back in the 70s, now parked with stack capped at Cooperstown.
Photo Date:  8/7/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:00:13 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  630   Comments: 1
CACV 2
Title:  CACV 2
Description:  The locomotive that launched Delaware Otsego back in the late 1960s now sits on display next to their offices at the old D&H Cooperstown station.
Photo Date:  4/4/2009  Upload Date: 4/12/2009 9:03:50 PM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Paul Koprowski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  1057   Comments: 1


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