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Adirondack Railroad
Adirondack Scenic Railroad
Saranac Lake station
Locale	New York
Commercial operations
Built by	Mohawk and Malone Railway
Original gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Preserved operations
Reporting mark	ADIX
Preserved gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Commercial history
1913	New York Central takes over
Closed	1980
Preserved era	1992 -
Preservation history
1992	Restoration starts
Headquarters	Utica, NY
Website
adirondackrr.com
Route map Legend Lake Placid Saranac Lake Lake Clear Junction Tupper Lake Sabbatis Beaver River Big Moose Lake Carter NY 28 Thendara Minnehaha Otter Lake Woodgate Forestport Kayuta Lake Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern RR to Lyons Falls Remsen Depot NY 365 NY 12 / NY 28 Holland Patent I-90 NY 49 I-790 / NY 5 NY 8 / NY 12 Mohawk River Amtrak to Rome and Chicago Utica Amtrak to Amsterdam and New York City This diagram: view talk edit

The Adirondack Railroad (formerly the Adirondack Scenic Railroad) (reporting mark ADIX) is a heritage railway serving the Adirondack Park that operates over former New York Central Railroad trackage between Utica and Tupper Lake. The railroad is operated by the not-for-profit Adirondack Railroad Preservation Society, with train crews composed largely of volunteers.

ADIX operates between Utica and Remsen over trackage of the Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad, part of the Genesee Valley Transportation Company. The Remsen–Tupper Lake segment is owned by the State of New York and is designated as a multi-use corridor for rail traffic during the spring, summer, and fall seasons, and as a snowmobile trail during the winter months.

As of 2021, passenger trains operated between Utica and Thendara, with several trains continuing north to Big Moose. Historic stations have been restored in Holland Patent, Remsen, Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. The section of track between Utica and Lyons Falls is used for freight traffic operated by the Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad (MA&N).

History

The line was built in 1892 by William Seward Webb, a Vanderbilt in-law, as the Mohawk & Malone Railway and was purchased from him in 1893 by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. Its successor from 1913, the New York Central Railroad, ran passenger trains on the route until April 24, 1965. It passed to the Penn Central Transportation Company on February 1, 1968, which abandoned freight operations north of Remsen in 1972. New York State bought the entire Utica-Lake Placid line from the bankrupt Penn Central in 1974, primarily to serve the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The Adirondack Railway then operated passenger services between Utica and Lake Placid from 1979 to 1981. Tracks were dormant from 1981 until 1992, when restoration began with a 4-mile (6.4 km) section from Thendara to Minnehaha, New York. The section was approved and demonstrated on July 4, 1992, and the line was given the name Adirondack Centennial Railroad. It was renamed Adirondack Scenic Railroad in 1994.

The railroad had formerly planned to restore passenger operations over the entire 142-mile (229 km) length of the Utica–Lake Placid corridor, and did operate from 2000 to 2016 on the 8-mile (13 km) segment between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. Other advocates in the area called for replacing the Tupper Lake–Lake Placid section with a rail trail instead. Tracks were slated to be dismantled in late 2016, but their removal was delayed by legal battles between the railroad advocates, rail trail advocates, and the state. The New York Supreme Court ultimately sided with the railroad on September 26, 2017, annulling the rail trail plan. However, in the subsequent Adirondack Park Act, the term "travel corridor" was redefined to include a trail in place of a rail line, reviving the option of a rail trail. The tracks on the 34-mile (55 km) Tupper Lake-Lake Placid section were removed in October 2020.

Concurrently, New York State renovated the tracks from Big Moose to Tupper Lake. The first train ran over the entire 108-mile (174 km) Utica–Tupper Lake corridor in September 2022, and regular scheduled tourist excursion service began in late spring, 2023. The name was changed again to the Adirondack Railroad in 2020.

Gallery

• ASR #6076
• NYC caboose, Now in Utica, NY
• ASR #6076, Lake Placid
• Saranac Lake Union Depot
• Remsen Depot. Rebuilt in 1999, on the same site and to the same plans as the original station.

See also

• List of heritage railways
• New York Central Railroad Adirondack Division Historic District

Notes

1. "Search MARKs". Railinc. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
2. "Home". shelburnefarms.org.
3. Gove 2006, pp. 65–69
4. New York Central timetable, October 1964, Table 8, last timetable showing service
5. Gove, William. 'Logging Railroads in the Adirondacks,' Syracuse, NY: 2006, p. 71.
6. Railroad and Railfan Magazine, February, 2018 cover story: "Penn Central Fifty Years Later"
7. Drury 1985, p. 14
8. http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com, May 4, 2016.
9. "World-class bikeway envisioned". Adirondack Daily Enterprise. June 3, 2011.
10. "Governor green-lights rail-trail plan - AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com - News, Sports, Jobs, Saranac Lake region — Adirondack Daily Enterprise".
11. "Adirondack Scenic Railroad on 'pins and needles,' some rides will begin July 1". NewYorkUpstate.com. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
12. Adirondack Railroad Preservation Society, Inc. v. New York State Adirondack Park Agency (Leilani Ulrich); New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (Basil Seggos); New York State Department of Transportation (Matthew Driscoll), 2016-213 U.S. 16-1-2017-0129 (Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Franklin; September 26, 2017).
13. Lynch, Mike (September 28, 2017). "Judge Rules In Favor of Adirondack Scenic Railroad". The Adirondack Explorer. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
14. "Adirondack Park Agency to redefine travel corridor". Archived from the original on April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
15. http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org (May 16, 2021)
16. "Adirondack Railroad looking ahead to expansion of service". WSYR. March 9, 2021. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
17. Miller, Michael (September 13, 2022). "New train line connects Utica and Tupper Lake". ABC22 & FOX44. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
18. Railroading Rambler (October 17, 2022). "1st Revenue Run in 42 Years! Utica-Tupper Lake NY". YouTube. Retrieved October 21, 2022.

References

• Drury, George H. (1985). The Historical Guide to North American Railroads. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-072-8. LCCN 85080107.
• Gove, Bill (2006). Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0-8156-0794-6. OCLC 61881113.

External links

• Adirondack Railroad website
• Adirondack Rail Trail website
• Wikimapia - Saranac Lake to Lake Placid
• Wikimapia - Thendara to Utica

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