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The eastern gateway onto the Walkway Over The Hudson |
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The old Poughkeepsie railroad bridge has been transformed into one of the most unique state parks in the US. |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:48 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
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Bridge |
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The curving east approach to the bridge. |
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For nearly 100 years trains rumbled around this curve and onto the high bridge over the Hudson. |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:47 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
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Bridge |
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| Title: |
Close up detail of the bridge structure. The new concrete walking surface is at the right. |
| Description: |
When completed in 1889, the bridge at Poughkeepsie was the longest cantilever span in the US and second in the world to only the great Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland. By comparison to the Forth bridge, the structure of the Poughkeepsie bridge is incredibly light and spindly. |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:51 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
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Bridge |
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| Title: |
Puoghkeepsie and the Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge from the Puoghkeepsie High Bridge |
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The Mid-Hudson Bridge was built to carry automobiles and opened 1930. This span was built only after it was determined that adding a separate roadway deck to the railroad bridge was not feasible. |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:50 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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175 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The view across the Poughkeepsie Bridge from the west shore |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:20 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
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Bridge |
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| Title: |
The Water Level Route |
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The former multi-track main line of the New York Central famed "Water-Level Route" passes under the Poughkeepsie Bridge. Although the two routes cross each other, the elevation change was too great to permit a direct connection between them. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:53 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Track |
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171 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MNCR 206 waits patiently at the Station for its next assignment |
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| Photo Date: |
9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:49 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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MNCR 206(P32AC-DM) |
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381 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MNCR 220 waits to leave the station |
| Description: |
In a few minutes, MNCR will get the highball and will begin to push back down the Hudson on its way to Grand Central Terminal. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:49 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Passenger |
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MNCR 220(P32AC-DM) |
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297 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSX 7855 & 7862 From the Bridge |
| Description: |
Two CSX units lead a train up the West Shore Line along the Hudson River |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:32 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Track,Action |
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CSX 7855(C40-8W) CSX 7862(C40-8W) |
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| Title: |
CSX 7855 & 7862 pass through Highland, NY |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:39 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
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CSX 7855(C40-8W) CSX 7862(C40-8W) |
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| Title: |
CSX train hugs the Hudson River north of the High Bridge |
| Description: |
This scene just how precariously the old West Shore Line was perched on the west side of the Hudson |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:45 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7855(C40-8W) CSX 7862(C40-8W) |
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193 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Highland Station on the old West Shore Line |
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During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt would travel by train to this station for his sojourns to Hyde Park. The Secret Service preferred this station as the President's train could take the B&O and Reading lines onto the West Shore, a route the Secret Service found safer as it avoided the more congested Pennsylvania Railroad. |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:19:15 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Track |
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| Title: |
The old West Shore Line snakes along the Hudson River |
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9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:54 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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158 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Silent Sentinel-1 |
| Description: |
Aside from interpretive signage on the Bridge, this forlorn search light signal is one of the few indications that this right of way was once an active rail line. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:52 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal |
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159 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Silent Sentinel-2 |
| Description: |
Another view of the searchlight signal on the east approach to the High Bridge |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:14:52 PM |
| Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Author: |
Paul Scarbrough |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal |
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177 Comments: 1 |
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