5/2003 Field trip

Note that the station and the freight house in the first few pictures was built by the New York Central on the same location as the SHnE station. They belong to the Carthage, Watertown & Sackets Harbor railroad. Since it's one field trip report covering both railroads, I'll leave all the pictures together.

northeast end of the station - Topo Photo

southeast side of the station - Topo Photo

looking southwest at right of way out of town, was a cut - Topo Photo

freight depot southeast side eves were cut off and brackets removed - Topo Photo

ties are still buried in grass, two tracks worth - Topo Photo

Guy Everett carved his name here - Topo Photo

The eves are full-length on the northwest side of the building and that's Dick Palmer - Topo Photo
The station was moved back to get a view of the bay. It was behind the quonset hut and in-line with the ROW - Topo Photo
There's a bridge over the tracks at Washington St. Its abutments are still buried in the ground - Topo Photo

picture of railbed facing southeast - Topo Photo

railbed in field next to road, facing north - Topo Photo

railbed in field next to road, facing south - Topo Photo

cut on south side of road - Topo Photo

best surviving remnant of SHnE, a trestle, looking west. The damage on the east wing of the south side was caused by the property owner taking stone to build a fireplace. - Topo Photo

facing northwest - Topo Photo

facing NNE - Topo Photo

facing SE - Topo Photo

facing north looking across the abutments. Roadbed ahead and behind me is badly eroded, as the grading was done with local sand - Topo Photo
railbed is not much built up here and is not much visible through the brush - Topo Photo

Hotel in Smithville - Topo Photo

looking north across little creek. Aside from post indicating property line at railbed, there is no stonework visible at all - Topo Photo

looking south next to driveway of house which is more likely to be the actual roadbed - Topo Photo

looking south over a very prominent railbed to farmer's field - Topo Photo

looking north at railbed and fellow railfans - Topo Photo
I've likely drawn it in the wrong place. There is a treeline which we are right in line with - Topo Photo

On the 1855 map, this house is marked "Henderson RR Station" - Topo Photo
to the west is an old road marked on 24,000:1 map - Topo Photo

looking south at tree line - Topo Photo

looking south at remnants of stone work - Topo Photo

looking north you can very clearly see the remains of a bridge abutment that crosses the little creek behind me - Topo Photo

looking south along the river you can see a bridge abutment - Topo Photo

looking across the river you can see the embankment, but the abutment is gone - Topo Photo

looking west along roadbed which is now used as a farmer's road - Topo Photo

further east along the same road you can see the fill - Topo Photo

and the corresponding cut from which came the fill - Topo Photo
to northwest you can see a hump in the plowed field, to the southeast is somebody's driveway; obviously they reused the railbed for their driveway. - Topo Photo

facing southeast, you can see the silo of the farm where the railroad crossed the road - Topo Photo
there's a cut to the northwest which the property owner has been filling in - Topo Photo

from I-81 northbound looking south, you can see the roadbed - Topo Photo

Russell Nelson

Last modified: Thu May 15 00:16:09 EDT 2003