Iowa Pacific seeks to sell Tahawus rail line
Owners of a thirty-mile rail line in the central Adirondacks who sparked controversy by storing dozens of empty tank cars...
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DEC wins round in fight over tank cars
By Phil Brown
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has won a preliminary round in its fight to remove empty tank cars stored on a rail line in the central Adirondacks. In a decision Tuesday, the federal Surface Transportation Board granted DEC’s request to waive certain requirements in the department’s forthcoming application to declare the rail line abandoned.…
RR Chief Defends Tank-Car Storage In A Song
By Phil Brown
Iowa Pacific's president composes a song to rebut Dan Berggren's "Junkyard Express."
Railway Moves Tanker Cars Into Adirondacks
By Phil Brown
The parent company of Saratoga and North Creek Railway has begun moving tanker cars into the Adirondacks for storage. Dylan Smith, a North River resident, took the video below on Tuesday. He described them as “just old tankers–some rusty, some not, all covered in graffiti.” Environmental groups and public officials have come out against the…
Oil in them thar hills
Iowa Pacific’s plan to store empty tanker cars on tracks near the High Peaks alarms environmentalists and sets state lawyers to scrambling. By Phil Brown The Iowa-Pacific rail company took state officials and environmental activists by surprise in July when it unveiled a plan to store hundreds of drained oil-tanker cars on its tracks near…
State purchase opens up Opalescent
With the acquisition of the MacIntyre East tract near Tahawus, the public now owns 12 miles of shoreline along the upper Hudson and the Opalescent. By Phil Brown Brian Mann and I had been on the water for several hours when we came to a fallen tree stretched across the river. We pulled over to…