Rutland station and platform.

        MP    77.35    Whitehall - Welcome to the birthplace of the United Stated Navy, or at least the one that State of New York recognizes. Whitehall gets that distinction because in 1774, American forces captured an English facility here. Philip Schuyler, Major General of the Continental Army and commander of the Northern Department (and a senator from New York), was given the job of fighting off a major English force marching south from Canada. Part of the plan required that Benedict Arnold build a fleet of ships to confront the British forces. After the battle, the American boats returned here to be destroyed to keep them from falling into enemy hands. Thus, this is reportedly the first "navy" of the United States.
       
        Whitehall still has daily passenger service provide by Amtrak. Two train routes actually pass through Whitehall, but the Ethan Allen route turns east at CPC 77 to Rutland just south of downtown and misses the Whitehall passenger station. The other train, the Adirondack, is a New York financed train that stops at the small Amtrak station downtown.

        MP    55.49    Fort Edward/Glens Falls - This location is known for the twin communities that formed near a series of falls on the Hudson River. The location of Fort Edward has been a center of transportation and warfare for thousands of years. It was located on the Native American "Great War Path," later used by French and English colonists during their own warfare, especially during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The location is also know as the "Great Carrying Place" as it was a portage around the falls on the Hudson.

        The first fort here actually dates from 1709 during Queen Anne's War. Housing 450 men, Fort Nicholson has been described as little more than a crude stockade built to protect storehouse and log huts. Fort Nicholson was soon abandoned and later replaced by Fort Lydius, the trading post of John Lydius, a fur trader from Albany. During the French and Indian War, General Phineas Lyman constructed Fort Lyman here in 1755. The fort was renamed for Prince Edward, the grandson of King George II, in 1756 by Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the region. Fort Edward and the related facilities on Rogers Island gave full control of the Hudson River at this point to whoever controlled the forts.

        Amtrak stops at Fort Edward, serving the historic D&H station. The station is on the west side of the mainline. Just south of the station is the south leg of the wye that connects to the Glens Falls Industrial Track. This track serves several major customers to the west along the Hudson River.

        MP A53.8    Corinth - This location was known as Jessup's Landing until about 1891. The first station was built here as a combination freight and passenger station in 1865. In 1891, the building was rebuilt into a freight house. It is not clear what passengers did when the station was converted, but a new passenger station didn't open until June 1911.It was located on the east side of the tracks. The last of the freight house was torn down in 1984 while the passenger station was removed in 2007.
        At one time, Corinth was a busy industrial town. E.H. Benway had a pulp mill to the west of the tracks just south of the station. Several miles south,of the station was White's Sand, a significant shipper. Additionally, a spur left the branch just south of the station and headed east to the International Paper facility at Palmer. The spur was about 2.5 miles long but the mill began closing in 2002. By 2003, the International Paper Mill in Corinth completed closing, ending all freight service on the line. In 2006, the Town of Corinth, to save the railroad, purchased the 16 mile stretch of track in their town for $2.2 million.