Barton Mines’ easement donation expands Gore Mountain trail network
By Mike Lynch
July 26, 2024
200-acre easement links North Creek Ski Bowl to Siamese Ponds Wilderness
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Celebrating a snow train
By Times Union
January 27, 2024
Historic train is credited with establishing the Adirondacks as a winter tourism and skiing destination
Your money or your water
By Ry Rivard
July 6, 2021
Grant matching rules leave Adirondack towns waiting for funds needed to complete water/sewer projects
Federal board orders status report in 2019 on Tahawus rail line
October 25, 2018
Federal authorities have halted consideration of whether the 30-mile rail line from North Creek to the former Tahawus mine in the central Adirondacks should be declared abandoned, ordering the current owner and a potential buyer to file a status report by Jan. 22, 2019.
Iowa Pacific removes more North Creek rail cars
August 1, 2018
Protect the Adirondacks notes the removal of hopper rail cars from tracks along the Hudson River near North Creek, where they had sat for years. This is the second removal of stored freight cars from the Adirondack Park this year, after Iowa Pacific Holdings moved a string of oil tankers. Protect’s news release follows:…
Flight shows tank cars gone from Tahawus rail line
May 30, 2018
A small-plane flight Tuesday over the 30-mile rail line from the old titanium mine in Newcomb down to North Creek confirmed that all the tank cars that had been stored along the tracks over the winter were gone.
DEC wins round in fight over tank cars
By Phil Brown
February 28, 2018
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has won a preliminary round in its fight to remove empty tank cars stored on a rail line in the central Adirondacks. In a decision Tuesday, the federal Surface Transportation Board granted DEC’s request to waive certain requirements in the department’s forthcoming application to declare the rail line abandoned.…
Tank Cars Stored Near Opalescent And Boreas
By Phil Brown
November 10, 2017
In flight over rail line, Protect the Adirondacks spots tank cars being stored in three locations.