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Adirondack Photos and Postcards Marion River Carry Railroad 2 1900 - 1929 Click on each card for a larger image |
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H.M. Beach photo The Rickety Rackety Railroad |
Carry Train - Part of the Novel Trip Raquette Lake to Blue Mountain Lake |
c1905 E.E. Kellogg Upper Carry Colorized card mislabeled 'narrow gauge' |
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| 1907 Blue Mountain Trip | Upper Landing |
1911 E.E. Kellogg photo The Adirondack - Trip up the Marion River |
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Photo by Jim Fynmore Engine No. 2 built 1901 freshly painted at Adirondack Museum |
c1911 E.E. Kellogg photo Lower Carry |
Killoquah pushing freight car on Raquette Lake barge 1909 - supplies for Blue Mountain |
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1927 Upper Carry Pulled over in the shade awaiting passengers |
1929 Lower Carry Last summer of the little railroad |
1929 Lower Carry |
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 immediately contacted me saying that this was indeed the "Lower Carry" at the Marion River end, not the Utowana Terminal as stated.
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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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