Justin Gonyo, former general manager of the Saratoga & North Creek Railroad, was named as acting executive director, according to Bill Branson, the society’s president.
The transition will not affect any operations of the railroad as it prepares for its 2019 season, Branson says. The move was not related to the railroad’s ongoing struggle with New York State, he adds. The state wants to remove 34 miles of track between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid, to create a rail trail.
The Adirondack Park Agency, which oversees the land on which the state-owned tracks reside, is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to vote on a unit management plan for the track segment, based on the revised definition of travel corridor that the agency adopted in December. The revised definition added rail trail to the list of acceptable uses for the land, in addition to railroad and vehicle traffic.
