North Country At Work

Shot of a lumber yard on Silver Pond; featuring elevated railroad tracks and stacks of drying lumber. Date unknown. Cranberry Lake, NY.

A man runs alongside railroad flat cars stacked with logs, being taken out of the woods by train. Circa 1920. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Men and horses at work building a trestle bridge for wooden railroad tracks, which were built to bring temporary trains to haul logs out of the woods. Circa 1900. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Emporium Forestry Company Linn #4 equipped with half tracks and skis taking logs to the railroad. 1930. Brandy Brook area, Cranberry Lake, NY.

Emporium Forestry Company Barnhart loader lifting a locomotive out of Silver Pond. 1930. Cranberry Lake, NY.

Written on photo is: DIGESTER BUILDINGS AND POND – NEWTON FALLS, NY. Pictured are a large smokestack, gondola train cars of the Buffalo and Susquehanna RR, and other mill buildings on right.  The building directly behind the RR cars held a digester for breaking down pulp. Circa 1900-1910. Newton Falls, NY. Real Photo Postcard by […]

Some of the Newton Falls Paper Mill buildings, located next to train track. Circa 1900-1910. Newton Falls, NY. Real Photo Postcard by Henry M. Beach.

Written on photo: WHERE THE ORE IS CRUSHED, LARGEST ROLLER IN THE WORLD. BENSON MINES, NY. Pictured is a man standing next to railroad tracks.  The tracks lead to the crusher. Ore car would drop the ore down into the crusher. To the left is the ore processing mill. Circa 1900-1910. Benson Mines, NY. Real […]

Exterior shot of the Benson Mines Magnetic Ore Concentrator. The sky is filled with smoke from the ore processing operations. A grist mill is situated in the foreground next to a raised railroad track used to bring iron ore into the plant. 1901. Benson Mines, NY. Real Photo Postcard by Henry M. Beach. Check out […]

Pictured is the first train into Waddington and a small crowd of spectators. June 27, 1908. Waddington, NY.