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Marion River Carry Railroad - page 2 of 3

1900 - 1929

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1878 Stoddard Upper Carry before railroad 1908 Detail from Upper Carry 1908 Upper Carry Utowana Lake to Blue Mountain
1878 Upper Carry before railroad
photo Seneca Ray Stoddard
1908 detail from Upper Carry
Canoe, steamers, RR barge on right
1908 Upper Carry
Henry M Beach Rickety Rackety Railroad Novel Trip Mislabeled narrow gauge - colorized

The Rickety Rackety Railroad

photo H.M. Beach

Carry Train - Part of the Novel Trip 

Raquette Lake to  Blue Mountain Lake

1905 Upper Carry

photo E.E. Kellogg

Colorized card mislabeled 'narrow gauge'

1905 EE Kellogg Blue Mountain Lake Trip 1909 Upper Carry - Towahloondah in center slip

1905  Upper Carry

photo E.E. Kellogg

1909  Towahloondah in center slip
Upper Landing - sign reads
Boat Landing

1905 Upper Carry

photo E.E. Kellogg

1907 Trip to Blue Mountain Lake Upper Landing Marion River Railroad - courtesy Bernie Perch
1907 Blue Mountain Trip Upper Landing

Train on Marion River Carry

Courtesy Bernie Perch

Built in August 1901 by HK Porter for WW Durant's Marion River Carry RR 1911 EE Kellogg photo Lower Carry 1909 RR car carrying supplies from Raquette to Blue Mountain Lake

Engine No. 2 built 1901

Photo Jim Fynmore for the

 Adirondack Museum

c1911 E.E. Kellogg photo

Lower Carry

Killoquah pushing freight car on 

Raquette Lake barge

1909 - supplies for Blue Mountain

August 24, 1927 Theodore H. Schuelke photographer August 7, 1929 Theodore H. Schuelke photographer

August 7, 1929 Theodore H. Schuelke photographer

1927 Upper Carry

Pulled over in the shade

awaiting passengers

1929 Lower Carry

Last summer of the little railroad

1929 Lower Carry

Photos by Ted Schuelke

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The last three photos are courtesy of the Liverpool (New York) Public Library.  Search for "raquette."  Photographer Ted Schuelke, a Liverpool resident, took some of the final pictures of the little railroad.

 

On the back of the photos were hand printed descriptions.  The first and second are the same, save for the date.  "The shortest railroad --- in the world, being 7/8 mile long and operating between Raquette & Utowana Lakes in the Adirondack Mountains. Picture was taken Aug. 25, 1927."  Photo number two was Aug. 8, 1929.

 

The third description reads "ALL ABOARD FOR RAQUETTE LAKE --- and Homeward Bound to Eagle Bay, after a trip to Blue Mt. Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. This picture was taken at the Utowana Lake Terminal of the Shortest Railroad in the world on Aug. 8, 1929."

 

An alert visitor to our site, Bernie Perch, immediately contacted me saying that this was indeed the "Lower Carry" at the Marion River end, not the Utowana Terminal as stated on the photo.

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Historic photos [Theodore H. Schuelke photographer 1927, 1929] are owned by Onondaga County, NY Parks Office of Museums and Historic Sites and are made available to the public by the Liverpool Public Library Liverpool NY


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