Fairy Tale Railroad : The Mohawk and Malone. From the Mohawk, Through the Adirondacks to the St. Lawrence

Sylvan Beach, New York, SA: North Country Books, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 310 pages b/w photos - Charles Burnett said in Conquering the Wilderness: "On October 24, 1892, trains were running through on schedule times from New York to Montreal. A railroad 190 miles through a wilderness had been constructed and placed in operation within eighteen months from the time the surveys were started. It is doubtful if this record, which was phenomenal in view of the difficulties involved, has ever been equaled under similar conditions." Replete with pictures, rosters, and timetables.Includes black & white photographs -- pictures of timetables, stock certificates, passes, advertisements, maps, and of course trains, from the late 1800s through the 1900s. Adirondack Train Adventures pamphlet laid in. "Dr. William Seward Webb's Mohawk and Malone Railway crossed the northern Adirondacks at Tupper Lake Junction, just north of Tupper Lake. Webb was president of the Wagner Palace Car Company. He began by purchasing the narrow gauge Herkimer, Newport and Poland Railroad, which ran 16 miles from Herkimer to Poland, converting its trackage to standard gauge and straightening it to avoid multiple crossings of the West Canada Creek. He then had track built from Tupper Lake to Moira and thence to Montreal. This was called variously the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad and the Mohawk and Malone. After 1893, it was controlled by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. It opened in 1892 from Malone Junction to Childwold Station with a branch from Lake Clear Junction to Saranac Lake. In 1913, it merged with the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad as the 'Adirondack Division'