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Plans for a new $8 million Olympic Training Center were detailed Oct. 7 at a public hearing called by the Adirondack Park Agency.

Steven Finkle, architect for the Olympic Regional Development Authority on the project, described the extensive training complex.

Before details of the project are cemented, ORDA awaits adoption of the site as an official training center by the United States Olympic Committee. The USOC will vote on the matter Oct. 24.

Skirting Placid Memorial Hospital, the 32-acre parcel, donated to ORDA by the hospital for the project, is bordered by Sentinel Road, Church Street and Old Military Road.

The complex will consist of housing facilities, a support building (including a dining area and offices), a large gym with adjoining weight room and offices and an athletic field.

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Off to Calgary ’88

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Lake Placid will put in an appearance at the Calgary Olympics, if all goes according to the plans of the 2000 Club.

The club, an organization dedicated to bringing the Olympics back to Lake Placid, made a presentation at the Oct. 7 meeting of the Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce, describing a plan to sell Lake Placid to the crowds in Calgary and asking for money.

The 2000 Club wants $6,000 from the Chamber of Commerce to add to their funds for the promotional shows. Charlie Walsh of the 2000 Club said the project will cost $50,000 total.

A building at Calgary’ central square where the Olympic viewers will throng has been rented for the three-week Olympic stretch.

Inside the first floor of the building, the 2000 Club will put up a colorful display of Lake Placid attractions. Ten people will go along to run the attraction.

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Railroad’s future

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Like the little engine that could, a group of investors based in Utica still thinks it can resurrect the Adirondack Railroad.

The Adirondack Transportation Corp. is a coalition of old investors from the Adirondack Railway Corp. and new investors who believe the railroad can make money. The Adirondack Railway Corp. ran the line for seven months around the time of the 1980 Olympics. It folded in the summer of 1980.

In October 1982, Victor Ehre, the court-appointed trustee for the Adirondack Railway Corp., sued the state for money it owed the corporation for track maintenance and repairs. The suit blocked the attempt by Adirondack Transportation to reorganize the bankrupt corporation and reopen the railroad.

The investors have waited five years while the suit has been fought in various courts. They have spent $40,000 maintaining the tracks during that time.

Now Mr. Ehre and the state have agreed to settle the suit. The state has promised to pay $200,000, and Mr. Ehre has promised to turn over the line’s right-of-way to the state.

An operating rail line from Tupper Lake to Lake Placid could be an important tourist attraction here, according to Ernest Hohmeyer, head of the Adirondack Economic Development Corporation.