North Country At Work

Portland, Maine, and Ogdensburg railroad engine #14, named the “Avalon.” Workers posed in and on the train. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1880s.

Railroad employees in front of train derailment. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1910.

USS Gresham on the Marine Railroad tracks, May 6th 1898. The ship had to be “deconstructed” or cut in half  to get it past the narrow rapids and into navigable waters, on its passage to sea to be used as an auxiliary vessel in the Spanish American War. 1898. Ogdesnburg, NY.

NY Central railroad maintenance. Four men riding a hand car or jigger  on the rails. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1900.

Railroad workers standing in front of a wooden passenger car labeled Buffalo, a division of New York Central. Car #146. The men pictured from left to right are: James Sheldon, John Boske, J.J. Sullivan, E.E. Cope, J.T. Eagan, J.J. McEaston, and John Keenan.  Ogdensburg, NY. Photo courtesy of the Ogdensburg Public Library. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa […]

Harrisville Lumber Company, circa 1891. Harrisville, NY.

Jayville (early iron ore mining area above Kalurah) rail station with early high wheeler car. Town of Pitcairn, NY. Circa 1900.

Rail station in Kalurah. Nothing remains of the town now, except two or three houses four miles south east of Harrisville. Taken in 1905. Town of Pitcairn, NY.

H.J. Erwin Company and Duluth Imperial Flour & Feed Company on State Street next to the train tracks, Carthage, NY. Circa 1870.

At Alcoa plant, looking toward the lower level. Workers on right are working on the rails. Circa 1900. Massena, NY.