Hi there narrow gaugers,
I know I promised to send this group our announcement about our narrow gauge railway open house on May 12. Turns out the date is also National Train day so kind of a nice tie in there. We're really hoping to get the attention of narrow gauge enthusiasts in our area so we can start building something.
Here is a link to our flier: [
www.ucsvroute.com]
Below is what we sent out today.
Ben
Hi Everyone,
Lately, area newspapers have been reporting on progress with our narrow gauge railway plans. We feel, as an economic development project, that we have much to offer to promote tourism, create jobs and add a heightened sense of pride to our community. A tourist railroad of world class standard has the potential to make our community a more vibrant and enjoyable place to live.
To that end, we are having an open house no May 12, from 9am to 1pm here in Richfield Springs at our South Columbia Station. We are providing this unique opportunity to meet new friends who would like to participate in the building, marketing and development of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
We have been working at the idea since we purchased the railroad corridor back in 2009.
We have purchased "The Frontier Town" narrow gauge tourist train and rehabilitated the landmark Newark Milk and Cream Company creamery building for use as a passenger station and retail space. More recently, we have purchased 16 tons of rails to construct a test track to preview the narrow gauge railway. We also have secured select vintage railway signaling equipment to set up on the railroad in the future.
We hope you can attend.
Please visit our website: www.ucsvroute.com for additional information or read about it in the story link below.
[
www.herkimertelegram.com]
Thank you. Hope to see you on the 12th!
Ben and Ron
Benjamin R. Gottfried
Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley LLC
256 Brighton Road
Richfield Springs, NY 13439
315-717-5969
mail@ucsvroute.com
www.ucsvroute.com
