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Marion River

Field	Value
name	Marion River
pushpin_map	New York Adirondack Park#USA
pushpin_map_caption	Location of the mouth of the Marion River
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	New York
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Hamilton
length	4.5 mi
source1	Blue Mountain Lake
source1_location	Blue Mountain Lake (hamlet)
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	1790 ft
mouth	Raquette Lake{{cite web
url	https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory/?site_no=0426545545
title	Marion river
date	1998
website	usgs.gov
publisher	usgs
access-date	18 April 2017
quote	data}}
mouth_location	Raquette Lake (hamlet)
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	1763 ft
basin_size	33.4 sqmi
tributaries_left	Bear Brook

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This engine was used on the Marion River Carry Railroad. Efforts to save the engine resulted in the [[Adirondack Museum

The ''Towahloondah'' on Blue Mountain Lake in 1899

The Marion River is a 4.5 mi river that connects Blue Mountain Lake via Utowana Lake and Eagle Lake (the Eckford chain) to Raquette Lake in Hamilton County in the central Adirondacks. New York State has classified the Marion as a Scenic River.

The Marion River Carry is a portage around the rapids in the Marion River to Utowana Lake. The carry was shortened by a dam, that raised the level of the river and then by the Marion River Carry Railroad; at 1320 yd, it was the shortest standard-gauge railroad line in the United States.

There is a detailed, animated, three-dimensional model of the carry railroad at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake.

History

The Marion River played an important part in the development of the central Adirondacks. Both Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake were acquired by Thomas Clark Durant, developer of the Union Pacific Railroad, as part of the building of the Adirondack Railway to North Creek in the 1870s. Durant, his son, William West Durant, and other family members built hotels and great camps on both lakes. W.W. Durant dammed the river at the Utowana end in 1879, and operated a sawmill there; this also allowed steamboats to travel most of its length. This was followed in 1900 by the Marion Carry Railroad, which operated until 1929. Efforts to save one of the steam locomotives from the railroad in 1947 led to the creation of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, where the engine may still be seen. It was also unusual in connecting to steamboat routes on either end, rather than other railways.

References

Jamieson, Paul and Morris, Donald, ''Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow'', Lake George, NY: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1987, p. 67. {{ISBN. 0-935272-43-7.
[http://www.sthubertsisle.com/page154.html St. Hubert's Isle - The Marion Carry Railroad]
"Adirondack Museum - "Adirondack Journal — Fifty Years of History"".
Kudish, Michael, ''Where Did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks?'', Volume Two, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York, 2007. {{ISBN. 978-1-930098-81-7.

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