A crowd stood at the Tupper Lake train depot on Tuesday to welcome a locomotive carrying passengers to town with waves, cheers and photos. This inaugural public ride of a Adirondack Railway Preservation Society train on the newly renovated Thendara-Tupper Lake line marks the first public passenger train on the tracks in many years. The Enterprise will have a full story on the occasion in tomorrow’s paper. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

A crowd stood at the Tupper Lake train depot on Tuesday to welcome a locomotive carrying passengers to town with waves, cheers and photos. This inaugural public ride of a Adirondack Railway Preservation Society train on the newly renovated Thendara-Tupper Lake line marks first passenger train on the tracks in many years. In the yellow vests, employees of the companies which renovated the tracks watched the train come in. They said they felt proud of their work seeing all the excited, smiling people greeting the train, a moment they don’t often get to enjoy. The Enterprise will have a full story on the occasion in tomorrow’s paper. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Adirondack Railway Preservation Society, along with local elected leaders and other train advocates cut the ribbon on the newly renovated Thendara-Tupper Lake line at the Tupper Lake train depot Tuesday. This inaugural public ride on the line marks first passenger train on the tracks in many years. The Enterprise will have a full story on the occasion in tomorrow’s paper. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)