North Country At Work

The NY Central & Hudson Railroad engine #1005, which ran between Utica and Massena via Richland. Circa 1900. Unknown NYS location.

Workers, including Charles M. Getman, second from left, with NY Central Railroad coal-powered locomotive #442 transporting logs. Circa 1890s. Unknown Jefferson County in NYS location.

This New York Central Railroad engine #211 was a Class G13, built in Schenectady in April of 1893. It was previously engine #61 of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad. Circa 1890s. Watertown, NY.

Employees posing with wood-fired engine. Circa mid-1870s. Unknown North Country in NYS location.

Employees with wood-fired locomotive, engine #13, the “Thomas Foster” of the Utica-Black River Railroad, a branch of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. The engine was built in May of 1872 by Schenectady Locomotive Works. The specs: 16X24 cylinders, 60-inch drivers. Circa mid-1870s. Glendale, NY.

Rotary snowplow clearing track near the Depot in Carthage, NY during winter of 1915.

New York Central Railroad freight house employees. June 15, 1923. Watertown, NY. Photographer: Shepardson.

Workers at the Railway Express Agency. 1931. Watertown, NY.

Portrait of railroad Freight House employees.  1902. Somewhere in Jefferson County in NYS.

Loggers holding peaveys riding a rail car loaded with logs. This train was used exclusively for bringing logs out of the woods (note small engine). Circa 1890-1900. Benson Mines, NY. Photographer: C.E. Runions. Related story, here.