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By:Matt Giardino
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Description:  Looking north. Our hike started at the crossing for the state access trail for Nelson Lake, about a half mile north of MP 52 and the former Nelson Lake Station area.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:30:52 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:31:30 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Entering a curve and a small cut
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:33:40 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Rounding the curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:35:53 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:39:33 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Around the curve the bridge crossing the Middle Branch of the Moose River comes into view.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:40:51 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Approaching the bridge
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:42:34 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Bridge over the Middle Branch of the Moose River.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:43:09 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  This bridge is the second crossing of the Moose River since leaving McKeever, but is the first crossing of the Middle Branch as the first crossing is after the Middle Branch and South Branch combine
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:43:48 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  The bridge is a through girder bridge and is very good shape.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:44:37 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  After crossing the bridge the railroad hugs the base of Jones Mountain on the east side of the Moose River, before crossing over it once again.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:45:22 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  A short rock cut
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:46:01 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:46:39 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Coming around the curve Milepost 53 comes into view
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:47:47 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Milepost 53
Title:  Milepost 53
Description:  Milepost 53. The former concrete post has seen better days but the Adirondack Scenic installed metal sign gets the job done.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:48:54 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north around the base of Jones Mountain
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:49:47 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Northward
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:50:35 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Rounding the curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:51:31 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north. This section of railroad got replacement ties along with fresh ballast, tamping and surfacing last year and is in the best condition it has probably ever been.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:52:50 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Rounding the curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:53:38 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Leaving the curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:55:13 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  A short straight away at the base of Jones Mountain
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:56:02 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:58:11 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  A spring snow storm that produced some heavy wet snow with some high winds took down a lot of trees in the area. Luckily the railroad has cleared it up some to get the first equipment north to Thendara for the year.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 11:59:34 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Entering another curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:00:22 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Rounding the curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:01:29 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Rounding the curve the Adirondack Scenic Block Sign Minne comes into view
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:05:00 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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ADIX Block Sign Minne
Title:  ADIX Block Sign Minne
Description:  Block Sign Minne. From 1993 to 1997 all southbound Adirondack Centennial Railroad and Adirondack Scenic Railroad passenger trains stopped here and shoved back to the Thendara station. After 1997 trains started running further south to Otter Lake where a runaround siding was reconstructed.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:07:07 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:08:41 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  As we leave the base of Jones Mountain the third crossing of the Moose River comes into view. This is the second crossing of the Middle Branch in about a mile.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:11:34 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Moose River Bridge
Title:  Moose River Bridge
Description:  This bridge was the focal point of an expansion of trackage for the Adirondack Centennial Railroad from the 1992 to 1993 seasons, and was usually one of the highlights of the trip for many people on the tain.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:16:44 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  View from the bridge looking railroad east, but in actuality south east.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:25:18 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  View from the bridge looking railroad west (north west)
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:26:23 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north over the bridge and approaching the Minnehaha station area and private crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:28:58 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:31:09 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Minnehaha
Title:  Minnehaha
Description:  The former station area at Minnehaha. The station once sat approximately where the sign is. It was a very small two story structure.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:35:28 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Immediately north of the Minnehaha station sign is the former southern terminal of the Adirondack Centennial Railroad. In the 1992 season the train would stop at this point just north of the crossing and shove north back to the Thendara station.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:37:42 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Moving north from Minnehaha the railroad is in a small cut. There was once a short stub track on the left that served a sawmill that is where the current Minnehaha road turnaround is. The ground has been manipulated quite a bit making it hard to believe a siding could have been here.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:41:19 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Northward
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:46:56 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  The railroad moves out of the cut and is built on a shelf of the hill to the left with the Middle Branch of the Moose River down the embankment to the right.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:49:30 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Entering a nice S curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:50:17 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Northward
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:52:51 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  In the middle of the S is Milepost 54
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:54:26 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Milepost 54
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Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:55:06 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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MP 54
Title:  MP 54
Description:  Down the embankment is the remains of the New York Central Concrete Milepost 54 marker
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:55:58 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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MP 54
Title:  MP 54
Description:  The top part of the post is broken off but pushing some brush away reviled the number 5.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:56:56 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Moving north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 12:58:46 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Continuing north
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 1:01:00 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Leaving the curve
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 1:02:18 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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Description:  Approaching an area once referred to as "White Water" on the Adirondack Scenic Railroad.
Photo Date:  5/1/2022  Upload Date: 5/2/2022 1:03:28 PM
Location:  Thendara, NY
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