Planing mill owned by a Mr. Hefferman, located on the Grasse River in Canton. Workers are posed between the mill and railroad tracks. One worker stands atop a load of lumber on a wagon with a horse hitched to it. 1900-1910. Canton, NY.
Exterior of the Train Depot. Note track crossing warning sign. Circa 1880. Lisbon, NY. Donated by Laurie Worden Kirkby.
An unidentified man pushing a baggage cart loaded with packages outside the Lisbon Depot as the passenger train pulls out of the station. Circa 1930. Lisbon, NY.
Engineer Frank Murray at the throttle of a Rutland Railroad switch engine in the Ogdensburg Yard in the days of steam. Circa 1920s or 1930s. Ogdensburg, NY. Photo courtesy of the Murray family.
Pictured is William Duffy, station agent, posing inside the Lisbon Train Depot. He stands to the left of the ticket window. Note the chains for operating semaphore signals and telegraph key to the left of the agent. Station was a part of the Rutland Railroad. May 1913. Lisbon, NY.
Train arriving in Lisbon, man to the left of the locomotive has a mail sack for the railway post office. A second train is on the passing track next to the Depot. Engine is a New York Central 4-4-0. 1907. Lisbon, NY.
Interior of railroad station. Left to right are: Gerald Duffy, Hamilton Walt, and William Duffy (station agent). Pictured on right are a telephone, typewriter, telegraph key, and stamping equipment. Circa 1930s. Lisbon, NY.
A winch is used to lower a boat onto the Black River. The winch is on the railroad car which delivered the boat. The train stopped on the bridge in order to unload the boat. The boat was used to help corral wood being floated down the river to mills. Circa 1930. From the Bill […]
This 0-60 type shifter engine owned by the St. Regis Paper Company was used to ship out paper from the mill. Circa 1920-1930. Deferiet, NY. Caption info compiled by Lynn Thornton, Laura Prievo, and Harold Sanderson for the Images of America book Around Carthage and West Carthage. The town of Deferiet was built to house workers […]
Self-propelled railroad car with two seats at Wanakena Railroad station. Six people, possibly family members, pose with the stationary car. Circa 1910. Wanakena, NY.
