The town once had a station on the Binghamton branch of the Erie Lackawanna Railway, but passenger service on this branch ceased in 1971; the branch has since been taken over by Conrail. The Cochecton train station is the oldest surviving station in New York State. Moved from its original site in the early 1990s, a local group of people banded together to save the station from destruction. The local business Cochecton Mills, owned by the Nearing family, gave the group, called the "Cochecton Preservation Society", one year to dismantle the ancient building and get it off their property, so that business could continue. In that time the station was carefully and successfully moved roughly one mile upstream to a spot on RT 97, still resting along the Erie railroad. More recently, various proposals were made to restore service on the line, but none have yet been adopted.