January 24, 2024
1852/3 2 Receipts PLATTSBURGH & MONTREAL RAIL ROAD to W.W.Fairbanks
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Receipt 1 8" X 6" Receipt 2 : 8" X 4.5""...The first railroad in Plattsburgh, the Plattsurgh and Montreal. It was organized and built by Plattsburgh interests, and opened from Plattsburgh to the International Border north of Mooers Jct. on September 20, 1852. Two Canadian roads were to connect at the border - the Lake St. Louis and Province Line and the Montreal and Lachine.The P&M had planned to integrate its operation with the Canadians, but that did not work out. The P&M passed into the hands of a receiver, Moss Kent Platt, in February, 1877, where it remained until the summer of 1868, when it was reorganized as the Montreal and Plattsburgh Rail Road.Meanwhile, south of Plattsburgh, the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad had completed two segments. The first, from Rogers, near Ausable Forks, to Plattsburgh in 1868 became the second railroad into Plattsburgh. The segment from Addison, near Fort Ticonderoga, to Port Henry was completed in 1870. An inland connection was planned but never built.Both railroads fell into the hands of Vermonters with the various lines including the Rutland, the Vermont Central, and the Ogdesburgh and Lake Champlain."W. W. Fairbanks, agent - Taunton Locomotive Manfg. Co., Taunton, Mass.
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