Leatherstocking Chapter, NRHS Ownership
The Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society (Leatherstocking Chapter NRHS) purchased the line from Delaware Otsego Corporation in 1996.
Volunteers performed vegetation removal and trackbed rehabilitation before the line was reopened for seasonal passenger excursion trains between Cooperstown and Milford in 1999, retaining the CACV name.
The southern half of the line provides a connection to the Canadian Pacific Railway, the current owner of the D&H.
Initially, the CACV leased a former New York, Ontario and Western Railway locomotive as well as two locomotives from the Green Mountain Railroad. It currently owns and operates a pair of ex-Canadian National Railway MLW switchers (Alco S-4 and Alco S-7 designs) which were acquired from Atlas Steel in Welland, Ontario. These locomotives continue the numbering scheme used by the D&H for its S series switchers (CACV #3051 and #3052). As of later 2012 unit 3051 has been painted into a D&H scheme, with CACV lettering. The 3052 is being painted as time permits, in service with half black paint and half blue from its previous owner.
CACV also owns or has constructed Maintenance of Way equipment.
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