N& StL Railroad

From the December 8, 1900 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald:

 

With the completion of the mills at Norfolk, a railroad leading from that place will be a necessity. That it will connect Norwood and Norfolk is a certainty. Norwood will be one of the terminals, but the other is yet to be chosen. Several routes are being discussed, and a survey has been completed of a line via Raymondville, Chase Mills and Waddington, and now a route following the Racket river to Raymondville, Massena and on to Massena Point, and still another route from Massena to Cornwall via the N.Y. & Ottawa. All of these routes are desirable, and as water connection is necessary, the matter of route will unquestionably be settled before spring opens and work begun. It is probable that a steam road will be built from Norwood to Norfolk, and the favored plan now is for a trolley road from Norfolk to the St. Lawrence river, via Raymondville and Massena. Power could of course be used on the line generated at Massena power plant. The benefits to the section through which this road would pass are evident. At this time, when all good water powers are in the market, it would at once bring into prominence that at Raymondville and other points on the Racket river, while Norwood would receive the benefit of another good route and give it the best shipping facilities of any place in Northern New York. These things will come, and when they do we shall be able to offer attractions that will draw such manufacturers that best build up a town-Norwood News.

 

From the Friday April 10, 1936 Potsdam Herald-Recorder:

 

Workmen have been engaged during the past week in cutting out brush stumps, trees, etc., on the line of the new railroad. The road leaves the line of the O. & L.C. near the boundary between Potsdam and Norfolk, and runs in a northwesterly direction passing just east of the sand banks situated north of Norwood.-Norwood News

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