North Country At Work

Wanakena Railroad Station. Railroad crew of the Cranberry Lake Railroad stand beside their train. Circa 1910. Wanakena, NY.

A crowd of people pose in front of the Wanakena Train Depot and a steam powered train. The Cranberry Lake Railroad operated between Benson Mines and Wanakena (a distance of 6 miles) from 1902 to 1913. Photo taken circa 1909. Wanakena, NY. Check out our story on how trains brought tourism to towns like Wanakena […]

Pictured are a crowd of people in front of Wanakena’s “Excursion Train” which the Cranberry Lake Railroad operated between Benson Mines and Wanakena (a distance of 6 miles) between 1902 -1913. At Wanakena a steam boat took passengers to locations around Cranberry Lake. Photo taken circa 1907. Wanakena, NY. Check out our story on how […]

A Real Photo Postcard produced by Henry M. Beach, titled: STEAM SHOVEL LOADING ORE – BENSON MINES, N.Y. No 23. Pictured is a steam powered shovel and switch engine loading ore onto five ore cars. One man stands on an ore car, six men work on laying new railroad tracks on the bottom right. Circa […]

Railroad workers of the NYCHRRR (New York Central and Hudson River Railroad) pose with a stopped train at Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne near Lake Lila. Note the cars are labelled ‘Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park Fire Service.’  Engine number 2188. Circa 1903. Lake Lila in the Town of Clifton. NY.

The dock at the Old Forge Pond in 1897, which with a boxcar and flat car. Tracks ran right up the dock so freight and supplies from the railroad cars could be loaded directly on boats and steamers for trips up the lakes. 1897. Old Forge, NY.

McKeever Railroad Station in 1897. McKeever, NY. Adams Collection.

White Lake (later Woodgate) railroad station in 1897. An engine is pulling flat cars of gravel past the station and a young boy is crossing the tracks carrying a bucket. Woodgate, NY. Adams Collection.

Big Moose Railroad Station. A group of people on the station platform, with a wooden wheeled baggage cart in foreground. Church in left background.  Circa 1900-1908. Big Moose in the Town of Webb. Photo by Henry M. Beach.

Train crew standing next to a Grasse River Railroad locomotive, outfitted with a barn hart loader on the flatcar, used to move logs onto flatcars. Note the man standing on a log being lifted by the loader. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.