North Country At Work

Town of Clifton Highway Department workers stand in front of fleet of trucks, snow plows and road graders. Circa 1960. Newton Falls, NY.

Eureka steam launch and a crew of loggers posing on a dock holding logging tools (peaveys, double bitted axes and pikes) at dock equipped with a hand operated crane for loading logs and lumber onto boats. Circa 1890-1900, Herkimer County. Photo printed by Stratton Photo, Utica, 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.

Seaplane on floats being prepared for fish stocking. 1932. Eagle Bay, NY.

A seaplane, with floats instead of landing wheels, owned by Adirondack Flights out of Inlet, NY), being loaded for a freight trip from Inlet to Hemlock Lake, north of the Beaver River Flow. Pictured are Henry Nortz and Russell Nortz loading the plane with cases of Genesee beer.  Circa 1940s. Inlet, 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.

Worker driving “The Speeder,” a bus built by the White Manufacturing Company that was outfitted with wheels so it could run on the railroad track. “The Speeder” carried passengers between Cranberry Lake and Conifer, where they could then connect to the New York Central railroad system. Written on the photo is: Famous Grasse River R.R. […]