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1900 – 1929
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| 1878 Upper Carry before railroad photo Seneca Ray Stoddard |
1908 detail from Upper Carry Canoe, steamers, RR barge on right |
1908 Upper Carry |
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| 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’ |
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| 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 |
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| 1907 Blue Mountain Trip | Upper Landing | Train on Marion River Carry Courtesy Bernie Perch |
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| 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 |
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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 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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