NORTH CREEK — Rail-bike excursions on the railroad tracks north of North Creek will be available to the public soon, according to Justin Gonyo of the Saratoga-North Creek Railway.
Gonyo told Warren County supervisors at a recent Warren County Public Works meeting that his firm had signed a contract with Revolution Rail Co., known last year as Renegade Railriders. He said that Revolution Rail would be operating rail-bike excursions on the railway in several weeks. “Everything is good to go,” Gonyo said.
As of June 19, Revolution Rail was seeking new employees for their rail-riding operation through a classified advertisement posted in the hospitality jobs section of Albany Craigslist. The ad seeks people to lead rail excursions, check in customers and promote branded merchandise. Both full-time and part-time seasonal jobs are available, ranging from $12 to $15 per hour depending on experience, according to the ad, which cites a North Creek address.
Contacted this week, Revolution Rail Co. principal Robert Harte said he preferred to wait several days before detailing his company’s plans, but that his operation would likely be underway by mid-July.

You can take the train from Saratoga Springs to North Creek, and now you can pedal your way farther into the Adirondacks, thanks to a startup company that offers so-called rail bike tours.
Revolution Rail Co. is offering excursions on a stretch of track several miles north of the North Creek rail station, on a line that linked to Tahawus, where iron ore and later titanium dioxide were mined. The vehicles are similar to paddle boats on rail wheels, with passengers sitting upright as they pedal themselves north about three miles, then turn around and pedal back south.
En route, they cross a trestle bridge spanning the Hudson River.

..a plan to haul crushed waste rock out of the defunct titanium mine in Tahawus never came to fruition

Bike trail, anyone?

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Supervisors question railroad's future after snow train cancellation
DON LEHMAN dlehman@poststar.com Jan 21, 2017

At least one Warren County supervisor is advocating for the county to take another look at potentially using the county-owned rail line for a bike trail after the operator of a tourist train on the line cancelled its winter trains for the second year in a row.

Lake Luzerne Supervisor Gene Merlino, chairman of the county board’s Tourism Committee, said Friday at a Board of Supervisors meeting that he was “really disappointed” at Saratoga & North Creek Railway’s last-minute cancellation of its winter trains.

“If they’re not going to do the snow train, we need to know before January,” he said. “We have to know what’s going on.”

Merlino pointed out that the railroad’s plans to run winter trains resulted in the train track right-of-way being off limits for snowmobile trails that had used them for years during the winter. The railroad operator that pre-dated SNCRR did not run winter trains, so the track area had become part of the snowmobile trail system, and it was frustrating that no trails were running but snowmobilers could no longer use the right-of-way.

Two bicycling groups proposed in 2015 that the 88-mile stretch of rails between Saratoga County and Tahawus be turned into a bike trail. Many bike trails around the country were abandoned rail lines.

Warren County instead renewed its contract with SNCRR parent company Iowa Pacific Holdings for five years, running until 2021...

Warren County is looking to see if anyone wants to lease or purchase the county-owned rail line.

As the company that formerly ran tourist and freight trains on the line continues to miss deadlines to remove its equipment from the line, the county Board of Supervisors plans to put out a “request for proposals” for use of the rails between North Creek and Hadley.

Horicon Supervisor Matt Simpson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors Public Works Committee, said county leaders have heard from representatives of at least three potential operators who have expressed interest in use of the line. That includes the operators of Stony Creek Ranch, who want to use a southern portion of the rail to and from their business.

While the companies have reached out to some supervisors and “there has been a lot of talk,” Simpson said the county board has “nothing in writing” from anyone about what they want to do on the rails. A request for proposals will require them to formally outline what they would like to do, and allow county leaders to evaluate the plans.