Jump to content


Photo

NY plans Adirondack Scenic Railroad upgrade and new Recreational Trail


  • Please log in to reply
15 replies to this topic

#11 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 22 October 2016 - 06:40 AM

NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation news release:

 

DEC Notifies Residents of Helicopter Survey of Recreational Trail Corridor

 

Helicopter to Fly over Lake Placid to Tupper Lake Trail Corridor on October 25

 

 

 

The New York State Department of Environmental (DEC) announced today that a low-altitude helicopter flight will take place over the recreational corridor between Lake Placid and Tupper Lake on Tuesday, October 25, in preparation for design and construction of a multi-use recreational trail.

 

The helicopter will videotape the corridor and its historic features as part of efforts to preserve the historic railroad prior to removing the rails and ties. Additional flights will be taken after all the leaves have fallen to survey the corridor using a light detection system known as LIDAR and to obtain aerial photogrammetry data. These flights will fly at higher altitudes.

 

In May 2016, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the final plan to govern the use of the 119-mile travel corridor from Remsen to Lake Placid. The final plan, signed by DEC and the Department of Transportation (DOT), describes the means to maximize the future use and economic benefits of the corridor. The State is implementing the plan with $15 million to upgrade the rail line between Big Moose and Tupper Lake and $8 million to build a multi-use recreational trail between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

 

The plan calls for DEC to manage the design, construction, and operation of the 34-mile recreational trail. Since late summer, a stakeholder group has been working to inform the development of a conceptual design and operation plan for the trail.

 

The stakeholder group is comprised of elected officials or their delegated representatives from the three villages and four towns along the corridor, DEC, the Olympic Regional Development Authority, Office of General Services, Adirondack Park Agency officials, and local representatives from the biking, hiking, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling communities.

 

A draft conceptual design and operation plan will be shared with the public for review and comment in the next few months. The final conceptual trail design will be used to develop a request for proposals to design and construct the trail. Rail removal and trail construction are anticipated to begin in 2017.



#12 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 03 February 2017 - 12:38 PM

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY 2/2:
 

Judge requests more info in railroad lawsuit

 

 

MALONE — The judge presiding over a lawsuit filed against the state by the Adirondack Railway Preservation Society requested more information from lawyers on certain issues at a hearing Monday morning.

 

Franklin County Judge Robert Main Jr. did not give a timeframe for response, and the particulars were not specified at the hearing, held at the Franklin County Courthouse in Malone.

 

This was the first hearing on the suit filed by ARPS, which operates Adirondack Scenic Railroad tourist trains in summer and fall between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid as well as between Utica and the Old Forge area. ARPS sued the state Adirondack Park Agency and state departments of Environmental Conservation and Transportation.

 

Continue here.



#13 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 16 February 2017 - 08:15 PM

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY 2/16:
 

Judge orders more info from state on railroad title issues

 

 

A judge has ordered the state to provide more information on title issues and historic preservation of 34 miles of a travel corridor that the state plans to turn into a multi-use trail.

 

Acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Main is dealing with a lawsuit the Adirondack Railway Preservation Society filed last April against the state departments of Transportation and Environmental Conservation, as well as the state Adirondack Park Agency. On Feb. 7 in Malone, Main ordered “that respondents shall provide a full and complete report to this court respecting the title and/or interest possessed by the State of New York along Segment 2 of the Remsen to Lake Placid Travel Corridor” by March 8.

 

The order also prevents the state or local governments from removing any rail structures from the corridor until these issues are resolved. The state had previously said rail and tie removal could begin as early as last fall or this spring.

 

Continue here.



#14 Sloan

Sloan

    Member

  • Global Moderator
  • PipPip
  • 12851 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Harrisburg, PA
  • Interests:Light Rail & Commuter Rail<br>Passenger Rail Stations

Posted 24 February 2017 - 11:27 AM

 

 

Preserving Utica-to-Lake Placid rail line must be goal

It's reassuring that a state Supreme Court judge is seeking more information from the state in the case of the Adirondack Scenic Railroad.

A stay in the case, issued Feb. 7, could prevent New York from making a huge mistake.

http://www.uticaod.c...ne-must-be-goal



#15 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 06 October 2017 - 07:45 AM

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, NY 9/27/17:
 

Judge rules tracks must stay

Railroad ‘ecstatic’; trail supporters call it a ‘real blow’; some expect appeal

 

 

MALONE — A judge ruled Wednesday that the state’s plan to build a 34-mile rail trail was “arbitrary and capricious” and failed to follow numerous state laws.

 

“The 2016 UMP [unit management plan] is annulled and vacated, in its entirety, and in each and every part,” acting state Supreme Court Justice Judge Robert Main Jr. informed the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Transportation and the state Adirondack Park Agency.

 

170928RRCourtOrder  (.pdf)

 

The Adirondack Rail Preservation Society, which operates tourist trains under the Adirondack Scenic Railroad name, sued the state in April 2016. The lawsuit stemmed from a plan by the DEC and DOT, and approved by the APA, that would have removed 34 miles of train tracks between Lake Placid and Tupper Lake and replaced them with a multi-use trail. The plan also called for another multi-million-dollar state investment to rehabilitate 45 miles of railroad tracks from Tupper Lake to Big Moose, allowing passenger trains to operate between Tupper Lake and Utica.

 

Continue here.



#16 Sloan

Sloan

    Member

  • Global Moderator
  • PipPip
  • 12851 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Harrisburg, PA
  • Interests:Light Rail & Commuter Rail<br>Passenger Rail Stations

Posted 25 October 2017 - 10:52 AM

 

 

Railroad wants Tupper Lake on board

 

TUPPER LAKE — Motivated by a judge’s rejection of a state plan to replace the Tri-Lakes railway with a multi-use trail, Adirondack Scenic Railroad officials are searching for state funding and local support to get a train running to or through Tupper Lake again.

http://www.adirondac...-lake-on-board/






1 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users