[email protected] A National Salvage excavator pulls out a rail on the former train tracks near the Broadway crossing in Saranac Lake Tuesday morning. (Enterprise photo â Peter Crowley) SARANAC LAKE — Advance crews had already unbolted the steel rails and cut them with a blowtorch on either side of road crossings. That set the stage for another crew to pull out the train tracks — which is now happening in Saranac Lake. Mike (the Enterprise didn’t get his last name), a Virginian with a thick Southern accent, worked a Caterpillar excavator Tuesday morning near the Broadway crossing beside Kinney Drugs. After maneuvering the vehicle’s tracks into the right position, he manipulated its claw to pinch each rail and lift it with a clang — pulling also the big railroad nails and other hardware out of the wooden ties, many of which were rotted.