Adirondack Railroading

The Midnight Gardener is also a huge fan of railroads, so I couldn't resist a short detour through the town of North Creek as I made my way out of the Adirondacks this morning.


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I was lucky enough to discover a train crew doing a small switching operation, in preperation for the coming excursion season. This train operates in conjunction with the North Creek Depot Museum. It was here in September 1901 that a special train waited to take Teddy Roosevelt from a Adirondack hunting trip to be sworn in as the 26th President of the United States following the assassination of President McKinley at the World's Fair in Buffalo.


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Of course, that was a steam locomotive, not this glistening beast of the (then) Future. I'm a particular fan of the old Delaware and Hudson livery in which this diesel is painted, so I was happy to be able to watch it work for a few minutes before returning to the highway.

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