Norwood & St. Lawrence

Company History: The N&StL opened in 1901 with a seven mile line from Norwood to Raymondville, New York. Eight years later, they acquired the connecting Raymondville & Waddington, thus achieving their goal of connecting Norwood with the St. Lawrence River 18 miles away. Traffic was mostly provided by paper mills on the line and in 1920, St. Regis Paper bought control of the N&StL. By the mid-50s, twice daily pulpwood trains averaging 30 cars were run. In 1956, the large mill in Norfolk closed and traffic plummeted. The line struggled on, moving just 161 cars in all of 1972. St. Regis applied to abandon the line. Rather than pulling it up, St. Regis donated the railroad in 1975 to Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority who later leased it to the St. Lawrence Railroad.

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