NORTH CREEK DEPOT MUSEUM - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Vice President of the Union Pacific Railroad Company

Dr. Thomas C. Durant, Vice President of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, was anxious to promote his recreational and industrial ventures in the Adirondacks, so he purchased the assets of what was then known as the Adirondack Estate and Railroad Company. Earlier companies associated with this north-south route were the Sackets Harbor and Saratoga Railway Company and the Lake Ontario and Hudson River Railroad Company. Now reorganized once again as the Adirondack Company, Durant made plans to run the line from Saratoga to Ogdensburg. However, after the bed had been completed from Saratoga to North Creek (1871), activity ceased.