To the Editor: Does anybody know the history of the railroad rails at the Hewittville bridge? I saw them first in 1976 and they were shortly thereafter covered over with a new deck. The memory faded …
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To the Editor:
Does anybody know the history of the railroad rails at the Hewittville bridge?
I saw them first in 1976 and they were shortly thereafter covered over with a new deck. The memory faded and I became unsure that I had ever seen them.
Well, they're back, now that they've started to reconstruct the bridge. I speculate that they were placed to deliver turbines and generators to the power plant on the west side of the Racquette, and came off (somewhere) of the paper plant spur.
Does anybody have more information?
Russell Nelson
Potsdam