In 1964, members of the community, led by Chester A. Haak and Harry J. Moran, began a campaign to purchase the soon to be abandoned line from the Erie-Lackawanna for $13,000.

In 1981, the line to Livonia was abandoned due to a lack of support from the state of New York to repair an aging bridge.

When 1982 rolled around it was decided that a classification yard was needed in Lakeville to handle the growing amount of traffic that the railroad was receiving.

In 1996, the LAL acquired Conrail's "Rochester South Cluster" pursuant to the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995.

This gave the LA&L access to three Class I railroads: CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Canadian Pacific Railway.

A number of infrastructure rehabilitation projects resulted in the line from Lakeville to Genesee Jct becoming a 25MPH railroad – not the 5-10MPH that had been.

The B&H also saw improvements on the northern end of the line, including the reactivation of ten miles of previously unused rail between Cohocton and Wayland, NY.

[5] Due to the Conrail split, the ONCT finally received competitive connections to CSX, NS, CP Rail, and NYSW by way of the Finger Lakes Railway.

The Lakeville shop was expanded to accommodate three coupled road engines with additional floor space in a separate bay to facilitate locomotive repair.

[6][7] The railroad initially provided rail service between Olean and Jamestown, New York, but eventually extended to more of the line as out-of-service sections were reactivated.

In October of that year, the Cohocton Valley Rail Corp. was renamed as the Bath & Hammondsport Rail Corp. Subsidiary WNYP leased additional trackage from Norfolk Southern in 2005 extending from Meadville, PA to Oil City, PA.

In 2007, the STB granted an exemption to Finger Lakes Railway allowing them to acquire the Ontario Central from LAL.

According to Barilla's US top executive, Kirk Trofholz, the availability of rail transport was "a must" when choosing the location for the plant.

The OMID, based in Sodus, New York, operates 52 miles (84 km) of track in Wayne and Monroe counties.

[11][12][13] The Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad has a roster made up of primarily ALCO locomotives.

Shortly after crossing Jefferson Road (NY-252), the track splits, with one track, the ex-LV Rochester Branch, heading southeast to a pair of online businesses on Lehigh Station Road (NY-253) before coming to an end, while the other track, ex-EL trackage, continues south/southwest towards Avon and eventually hits the Lakeville terminus, ending just shy of Conesus Lake, at one time a Steam Boat terminal.