Northern
Adirondack Extension Railroad - (en)
The Northern Adirondack Extension Railroad was chartered on February
17, 1886 to take over the existing rails between St. Regis Falls and
Santa Clara, as well as to extend the Northern Adirondack Railroad
south to Tupper Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, the site of the
largest saw mill in the U.S. at the time. The first section of the
extension opened on July 6, 1886, south to Brandon. The remaining
section to Tupper Lake was completed in 1889, with regular service to
the southern terminus starting on July 1, 1890. Prior to that, on
April 5, the Northern Adirondack Extension was merged into the
Northern Adirondack Railroad.
In 1887 Patrick Ducey, whom owned a large tract of land south of
Brandon, had built his own logging railroad from his jackworks in
Black rapids to a point on the Northern Adirondack Extension Railroad
called Black Rapids Junction. Although the John Hurd owned railroad
was not completed and officially opened, it could be assumed that some
kind of shipments was hauled out from Ducey's operations. This small
line would become Northern Adirondack Railroad property approximately
in 1889 when the line opened to Tupper Lake.
In 1892, the Mohawk and Malone Railway was completed and had crossed
the Northern Adirondack at Tupper Lake Junction, just north of Tupper
Lake.
One of the last items that the Northern Adirondack Extension Railroad
had done was negotiated for trackage rights over the Saratoga and St.
Lawrence Railroad, which was running at that time from Moira to Bombay
on the Grand Trunk Railway's United States and Canada Railroad, which
was a line that linked Massena to Montreal. John Hurd had plans to add
this small rail line to his own company.
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