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5/18/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Matt Giardino
Dates:6/15/2021 - 6/15/2021
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Description:  This is was once the location of one if the largest washouts on the line which was repaired in 1999-2000 to get equipment to Lake Placid
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:02:34 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Over the repaired section
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:03:45 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Looking back to the south west across the Piercefield Flow
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:05:15 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Leaving the repaired section of track
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:06:19 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  At this point the railroad is on a very long straight tangent with only a slight curve between here and the Tupper Lake Station
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:07:17 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:08:19 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  More weeds
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:09:45 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  99 years ago someone in the track gang must have had a few extra date nails to get rid of.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:10:52 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 4:11:53 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Description:  There are ties under all that green, I assure you.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:00:59 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:03:28 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Northward
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:07:03 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Description:  Off in the distance the bridge over the Raquette River comes into view
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:09:26 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:14:27 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Northward
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:18:59 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:27:51 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Milepost 112
Title:  Milepost 112
Description:  Milepost 112 is nothing more than a sliver of the original wooden post.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:28:50 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:30:40 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Northbound
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:32:31 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  The bridge becomes more visible
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:34:26 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Underwood
Title:  Underwood
Description:  This area of the railroad was once know as Underwood. Never a station location but there was once a spur stack on the right that served a sawmill on the shore of Raquette Pond
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:41:18 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:42:28 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Approaching the bridge
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:44:01 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:47:49 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  The bridge over the Raquette River/Raquette Pond
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:49:35 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Looking down stream (southwest) on the Raquette River
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:51:19 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Looking north east across Raquette Pond towards the village of Tupper Lake
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:52:37 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Crossing the bridge. The rail contractor has done some preliminary work here removing the guide rails and replacing several ties on the approaches. Finish work will come later this year
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:53:39 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Description:  Some of the locals like to use the north approach as a party spot.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:54:31 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Moving north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:56:20 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Northward
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:58:37 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north on the long fill
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 5:59:53 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  We come upon another section of damaged track
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:01:31 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Description:  A second large heat kink. Not as severe as the first but with more tie damage than the last. They were marked for replacement anyway.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:02:41 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:03:50 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  This slight curve is the only one between Piercefield Flow and the Tupper Lake yard.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:05:05 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Description:  Through the curve. The rain caught us at this point.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:06:42 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:08:24 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Northward the rain
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:10:46 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  The four wheelers have made a trail at the edge of the ties in this section
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:13:11 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:14:06 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Description:  The power poles are the first sign of civilization in many miles
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:15:04 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Milepost 113
Title:  Milepost 113
Description:  There is absolutely no visible trace of milepost 113 but this is its approximate location
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:17:11 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:18:08 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Rain stopped and the sun is back out. But it wouldn't last.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:19:35 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:20:28 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Still heading in a straight line
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:21:34 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Approaching a private crossing.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:23:29 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  The Rt 3 crossing starts to come into view
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:24:42 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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Untitled
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Description:  Approaching the stub track south of the crossing. The Tupper Lake station comes into view.
Photo Date:  6/15/2021  Upload Date: 6/17/2021 6:25:47 PM
Location:  Tupper Lake, NY
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