Where Did The Tracks Go In The Western Adirondacks? (Mountain Railroads of New York State)
by Michael Kudish
Category: Transportation

The author's first attempt at a single reference which would locate all railroads, abandoned and extant, in the Adirondack region appeared in 1985 and was entitled Where did the Tracks Go. By 1996, with a near tripling of accumulated detail, Purple Mountain Press published a large, single, 496-page volume entitled Railroads of the Adirondacks: A History. It went out of print in 2001. So much further detail had accumulated in only five years that a major revision became necessary. A single volume of nearly one thousand pages would be extremely cumbersome for readers attempting to locate abandoned grades, and we decided on four separate, portable volumes including one on the Catskills. The primary intent of Mountain Railroads of New York State is to assist the reader in the location of railroad grades, primarily abandoned, in the field.