The state Department of Transportation will begin removing rail crossings on highways in Lake Placid and Saranac Lake next week, and motorists can expect minor delays. This work is the latest in the state’s project of removing train tracks from Tupper Lake to Lake Placid and converting ...

SARANAC LAKE — Advance crews had already unbolted the steel rails and cut them with a blowtorch on either side of road crossings. That set the stage for another crew to pull out the train tracks — which is now happening in Saranac Lake. Mike (the Enterprise didn’t get his last name), ...

SARANAC LAKE — Jim McCulley used a machine to unbolt railroad tracks Friday morning in Saranac Lake, near the Cedar Street crossing. McCulley, a snowmobiler from Lake Placid, was for many years a leading advocate for the now-underway plan to replace the tracks with a trail for biking, ...

SARANAC LAKE — Jim McCulley of Lake Placid, working for National Salvage, used a machine to unbolt railroad tracks Friday morning in Saranac Lake, near the Cedar Street crossing. Another National Salvage worker said the rails could be removed with an excavator as soon as next week. ...