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Caboose No. 71 of the Grasse River Railroad (owned yesteryear the Emporium Forestry Company) equally it appeared at Conifer, N.Y., deep inward the Adirondacks, inward 1953. Eventually this odd-looking two-truck home-made "bobber" caboose made its way to Rail City Museum at Sandy Pond, N.Y. where it was lay on display until the museum shut inward the 1970s.

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So I got to wondering nigh the Grasse River RR.

It was an interesting shortline inward upstate New York in addition to it ran from Childwold on the New York Central's Adirondack Division, from nigh 1914 until the early on 1950s. It had an array of motive ability in addition to rolling stock purchased instant manus from Class i railroads in addition to other shortlines.

The Emporium Lumber Company was originally formed inward 1892 inward Pennsylvania. The success of the fellowship led to expansion inward New York State. The sawmill inward Conifer, New York opened inward 1911 in addition to the Grasse River Railroad, a original agency of shipping for the logging business, followed shortly afterward inward 1913. The railroad was used to haul cutting lumber in addition to traveled betwixt New York Central Station at Childwold, New York in addition to the Emporium Forestry Company functioning at Cranberry Lake, New York. The Emporium Forestry Company was dissolved inward 1950.