"Rebuilding The Adirondack Railroad: Tupper Lake NY" 

I agree, great video. Brings back many memories. Spent my childhood on Upper Saranac Lake, with a lot of time in Tupper Lake. It's nice to see the area still flourishing. Regarding the track going all the way to Lake Placid, I'm not sure that's possible anymore? Although it's been a long time since I was in the area, the last time I knew there was a section of that track that was washed out near the floodwood area (near Lake Clear), where the tracks run adjacent to Rollins Pond. But I do agree with you, that would certainly be a nice ride all the way to Lake Placid. Although having said all this, I hope the area never loses its charm. As I said, growing up up there, it's certainly a very therapeutic experience. Not just being in the mountains - the air, the atmosphere, the slower pace, nice people - but just the overall positive therapeutic effect it has on a person. Just my opinion... but I do hope it doesn't change with further progress.

YES !

Selfish Yuppies and politics, plain and simple.

This was a busy through route to Montreal the daily freight between Utica and Montreal was a big train. There were a lot of local customers all along the line as well.

@@crm6270 I would love to see old maps of this.

I agree that this is very "thin" territory for railroad service. In his "Fairy Tale Railroad", Henry Harter noted that the decline on this line had begun as early as the 1920s when paved roads first reached the more remote towns such as Tupper Lake and Saranac Lake. In the end, it was a sad ending with passenger trains that I saw in the 1960s consisting of an old coach tacked onto the end of a train with a few propane cars destined for Lake Placid.

A small group (supported by the snowmobilers for the reason you note) were behind the removal of the rails north of Tupper Lake. A compromise was struck whereby the rails came up north of Tupper Lake, and the line was rehabilitated south to Remsen. There are still those who would like to see all the rails gone.

@@treesixtyeight that is very sad

No, nothing else. We left shortly after that final clip stopping only in Alder Creek (picked up two pieces of sad looking pizza) and Barneveld (picked up two pieces of terrific pizza...pizza was what was for dinner, lol).

The Wild Center is in Tupper Lake - an interpretive facility about the Adirondacks.

@@railroadingrambler218 sad looking pizza! That made me laugh! You do get spoiled having access to Utica food.

The real waste of money is $8 million for the Tupper Lake go Lake Placid rail trail they're creating which will never make any money whatsoever, but this is what elitist yuppies and politicians wanted!!