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Transportation History

Schoharie Crossing Offers Online Programs

August 3, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Schoharie Crossing on Erie Canal showing 9 arches of aqueduct at Fort HunterSchoharie Crossing State Historic Site will continue to offer online programs throughout the summer even as the Visitor Center is now open by appointment.

The Erie Canal historic site will provide programs through Webex as well as other online platforms and social media. [Read more…] about Schoharie Crossing Offers Online Programs

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: Erie Canal, Fort Hunter, Schenectady, Schoharie Crossing, Transportation History

Women at the Helm: The Maritime Museum’s New Digital Exhibit

July 5, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

women at the helmLake Champlain Maritime Museum has launched a new exhibit: Women at the Helm, celebrating women leaders of the Champlain Valley from the 18th century to today. [Read more…] about Women at the Helm: The Maritime Museum’s New Digital Exhibit

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Champlain Canal, exhibits, Lake Champlain, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Maritime History, Science History, Transportation History, womens history

Monticello Steamship Company

May 17, 2020 by John Conway 2 Comments

Monticello Steamship DockOnline auction sites regularly offer a number of collectibles — postcards, brochures, tickets, even china — bearing the name and logo of the Monticello Steamship Company of San Francisco.

Most of these items offer little information about the company, and the average collector would have little reason to believe that one of the most well-known enterprises on the West Coast around the turn of the 20th Century had any connection at all to Sullivan County, NY.

But it did. [Read more…] about Monticello Steamship Company

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Maritime History, Steamboating, Sullivan County, Transportation, Transportation History

Beacon Oil: New York’s Lighthouse Gas Stations

May 13, 2020 by John Nehrich 2 Comments

closeup of corner of Woodlawn to the left and Church to the right The Beacon Oil Company was formed in 1919 in Boston, and named for the city’s Beacon Hill.

In 1922, a standard service station design, called the “Watertown” used elements of the 1700s Massachusetts State House, designed by noted architect Charles Bullfinch. [Read more…] about Beacon Oil: New York’s Lighthouse Gas Stations

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Architecture, Transportation History

Riding The Rods And Railroad Reefer Cars

April 14, 2020 by John Nehrich 1 Comment

Armour and Company meat reeferHere is a photo of an Armour & Company meat refrigeration car (a reefer) with a hobo “riding the rods.” The car lacks the grab irons on the right side, so we know it’s before the 1911 Amendment to the Railroad Safety Appliance Act. [Read more…] about Riding The Rods And Railroad Reefer Cars

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Food, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: railroads, Transportation, Transportation History

When Trains Ran Through Saratoga’s Streets

April 9, 2020 by John Nehrich 1 Comment

part of the original North Creek branch that ran up the streets in SaratogaThe tracks seen in these photos were part of the original North Creek branch railroad that through the streets of Saratoga Springs. Originally, the line to North Creek (the Adirondack Branch) came off the Delaware & Hudson Railroad’s main line in the freight yard just south of the main Saratoga depot, and ran right down the middle of some streets. Started in 1864 and completed to North Creek in 1871, the street tracks were removed when the entire line was rerouted outside downtown Saratoga Springs. [Read more…] about When Trains Ran Through Saratoga’s Streets

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: D&H Railroad, Essex County, Newcomb, North Creek, railroads, Saratoga, Saratoga County, Tahawus, Transportation, Transportation History, Warren County

Comments Sought On Plan To Tear-Up Historic Rail Line

March 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff 13 Comments

The Adirondack Park Agency has announced a public comment period for Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan conformance on proposals from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to amend the 1996 Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor Unit Management Plan.

The State is planning to tear up part of the historic Adirondack Railroad line between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid for a multi-use trail.

[Read more…] about Comments Sought On Plan To Tear-Up Historic Rail Line

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: DEC, Department of Transportation, Historic Preservation, Lake Placid, Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor, State Land Master Plan, Transportation History

DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal Presentations at Schoharie Crossing

February 28, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

schoharie crossing state historic siteSchoharie Crossing State Historic Site is set to open the doors at their Visitor Center this off season on each first Monday of the month for Museum Monday Programs. [Read more…] about DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal Presentations at Schoharie Crossing

Filed Under: Events, History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, Political History, Schoharie Crossing, Schoharie Crossing SHS, Transportation History

Smithsonian Water/Ways Exhibit in East Hampton, LI

February 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Water/Ways exhibitThe Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Water/Ways, which looks at how humanity has used water and how water has helped shaped civilization, is set to arrive at Clinton Academy Museum on February 29th for a six-week stay. [Read more…] about Smithsonian Water/Ways Exhibit in East Hampton, LI

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Agricultural History, East Hampton Historical Society, Industrial History, Maritime History, Transportation, Transportation History

Historic Waterways Focus of Special Albany Lecture

January 14, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Erie Canal Lock in Albany in 1893The Albany Institute of History & Art is set to host “What is a Waterway Anyway?” with guest speaker Daniel Rinn, PhD candidate at the University of Rochester, on Sunday, January 19th, at 2 pm. This lecture is included with museum admission and part of the New York tour of the Water/Ways exhibition that is currently on view at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, New York (January 11-February 23, 2020). [Read more…] about Historic Waterways Focus of Special Albany Lecture

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Mohawk Valley, Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Albany, Albany Institute of History & Art, Environmental History, Erie Canal, Hudson River, Transportation History

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