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Starting where I left off six years ago, standing on the trail to Mt Frederica looking north towards Nehasane station, .3 miles north of MP 87 |
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Coming to a curve the roadbed has had recent repairs done to fix a slump or damage from brush cutting. This track was level six years ago |
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The track is passable, and will likely get final work once the ballast train and tamper get here later this year |
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Rounding the curve the cliffs of Mt Frederica come into view. |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 2:34:06 PM |
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Moving along we start to see where a major washout was repaired twenty years ago |
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Former sight of the Lake Lila washout. During the time the line was dormant between 1980 and 1999 many washouts occurred due to beaver activity and lack of maintenance. This washout was one of the largest with rails suspended twenty feet in the air |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 2:35:18 PM |
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A brand new culvert and a mountain of fill was needed here. The beavers are persistent and there is still signs of activity in the area. |
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Approaching the end of the fill |
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Exiting the fill and passing through a small cut |
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Continuing north |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 2:38:01 PM |
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Heading into the next curve the Nehasane Station starts to come into view |
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Approaching the station. A passing siding once existed to the left |
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The Nehasane station was the private station for the railroad's builder, Dr William Seward Webb. It last saw passenger trains in 1965 and stopped being maintained shortly after. The Webb family heirs donated Lake Lila and the surrounding property to New York State in the early 1980s |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 2:41:52 PM |
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After acquisition by the state the area was designated a primitive area and the railroad station and Great Camp it served were deemed "non-conforming structures" under this classification. Wilderness Lodge was removed shortly afterward but the station being in the railroad corridor fell into a grey area and was simply left to rot. |
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The sturdy construction and years of top maintenance under Webb family ownership meant the station remained in fairly good condition for several decades. Thae last 10 years have not been so kind as the harsh Adirondack winters have finally caught up to the structure. |
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The front wall (west) and side wall (north) are barely holding on. The roof, rear wall and most of the south wall have completely collapsed |
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The station's enclosed waiting platform is in a similar state of decomposition |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 2:47:47 PM |
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Such a sad state of affairs for what was one the most exclusive railroad station on the line. At one time no passenger could get off a train here without written permission directly from Webb himself. |
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Nature doesn't seem to be the only culprit to the current condition of the buildings, as it would appear that siding has been removed from the waiting platform, likely by snowmobilers stopping here in the winter and campers on Lake Lila in the summer looking for firewood. |
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Moving north from the station site. |
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Heading north. The passing siding ended here on the left. |
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Near the end of the former siding, a plugged culvert has resulted in a small washout that will need repair |
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Lake Lila can be seen through the trees. This was once a clear of vegetation and was quite a view from the window of a train from what I have heard. |
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Milepost 88 is currently just a post. When the original mileposts on the line needed replacement in the New York Central days they were replaced with concrete ones. In later years, either under NYC or New York State ownership they were replaced with sign posts with metal painted signs on top. Many in this stretch seem to have plywood instead of metal and this is sometimes the result. |
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This section of railroad is crammed between Mt Frederica to the west and Lake Lila to the east with the predictable topography that you would expect in that situation |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 2:56:34 PM |
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Curves and cuts |
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S curve |
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Continuing north |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 3:01:52 PM |
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This section has a considerable amount of stone ballast which is not typical of this line under New York Central ownership. Considering the amount of pressure treated "Olympic Ties" also in the area I suspect this section needed lots of work under Adirondack Railway care in 1979-80. |
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Continuing north |
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The curves through here are impressive to say the least |
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Another S curve |
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The stone ballast is in need of tamping/cleaning and the vegetation is filling in the gaps in the stone. |
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Rounding another curve |
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Continuing north |
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I didn't get a close up picture, but contractors have already replaced a rail in this section and have installed dozens of new spikes to make the track passable for work trains. Rumor has it the brush contractor the state hired several years ago to prepare for the track rehab did a lot of damage to the gauge because they used rubber tired vehicles instead of hi-rail equipped ones. |
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Yet another S curve. Mountain railroading! |
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Continuing north |
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Rounding the curve |
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Milepost 89 is one of the plywood on sign post survivors. "H 89" is barely readable. Lots of piles of old ties here likely dating to 1979-80 |
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5/24/2021 Upload Date: 5/26/2021 3:13:23 PM |
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After many curves and cuts the terrain opens up a little bit |
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Heading north |
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The stone ballast goes away and cinders are now dominant |
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We approach an area the state repaired about twenty years ago when the Adirondack Scenic was expanding operations out of Lake Placid. Many new ties and ballast approaching the bridge |
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Rainor Brook bridge |
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A very short bridge over Rainor Brook with a very serious set of guide rails. Snowmobilers have built plywood sides to help keep snow on the bridge in the winter and they have deteriorated very badly and were unsafe to walk on. |
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The north approach to the bridge was rebuilt too. |
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Back to cinders |
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Continuing north |
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Through the curve. We discovered this stretch of railroad corridor doubles as a sanctioned canoe portage between Harrington Pond (out of sight to the right) and Clear Pond further to the north. |
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Heading north on a decent length of tangent track |
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