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"The Adirondack" Utica to Lyon Falls May 19, 2011 Part 2

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by Chris Guenzler

We all detrained and a few of us went down the hill to get to Sugar Creek for the photo runby and posed pictures.













The reverse move over the Sugar Hill bridge.













The photo runby.









Reversing for the posed pictures.













Posed pictures at the Sugar Creek Bridge. One of our passengers twisted his ankle and we had to assist him getting back up the steep hill to the train. Once we was aboard, we headed north to Lyon Falls.





Whistle post.





Partly cloudy skies this early afternoon.





A Black River Canal lock.





Port Leyden, New York.





More blossoms on the trees.





This wooden bridge was ruined by children setting it on fire on a Halloween a few years ago, thus a grade crossing had to be built.





The Kitch Block sign.





We were approaching Lyon Falls.





This track leads to the active rail-served industry here.





The run-around track.





You can see the Lyon Falls station, where we stopped and detrained.





Our engine facing the Lyon Falls station.





Views of our train.





Two views of the New York Central Lyon Falls station built in 1903.





The end of active track.







The motive power cut off our train.







The Lyon Falls Pre-school class came down to see our train today.





The engines reversed to be separated, with one placed on each end of our train.







The children returned to school.







Adirondack Scenic FP10 1502 returned to the north end of the train.







The train then pulled north to within twelve feet of the end of active track.





Our train at the end of track, after which we all reboarded to head back to Utica.



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