TUPPER LAKE — Today, for the first time in many years, a train engine carrying passengers — train enthusiasts, local politicians and the media — will pull into the Tupper Lake Depot on its way from Thendara. This ride on the state Department of Transportation-owned tracks, which the ...

While work continues on the railroad corridor projects north and south of Tupper Lake, communities are preparing for the crowds of train and trail riders they’ve been promised. Those crowds include enthusiasts of trains, bikes, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and walking. After ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is making slow but steady progress on the rail-trail project connecting Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake and Lake Placid with a flat, forested trail — a former train line. The state ripped up those rails in 2021. The state Adirondack Park Agency ...

ALBANY (AP) — A planned rail trail on an abandoned train line in the Adirondacks is moving ahead. Recently the state Department of Transportation completed the removal of rail infrastructure on a 34-mile section of the trail between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid and transferred the property ...

SARANAC LAKE — The signs on the rail trail say “no pedestrians or bicycles,” and though the state contractor who put them up wants people to stay off the corridor for now, the company is not planning to enforce the ban. National Salvage — the company the state Department of ...

LAKE CLEAR — The state is grinding up around 40,000 rail ties in Lake Clear this week to make way for the new Adirondack Rail Trail. The tie grinding has some nearby residents concerned; others aren’t concerned at all. The state Department of Transportation has a contract with National ...