Re: (erielack) Two Questions

["Alexander Scandrett" <"scanlpr_@_usit.net">]

The O&W did run Pax trains in the 50's  through Cornwall and I believed =
it connected with the Main Line in Middletown, not the Graham Line.

Alex


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From: <"mike1144_@_frontiernet.net">
To: <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 22:22
Subject: (erielack) Two Questions


> This is directed to the Orange County (NY) mavens who seem to know so =
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> much of the local history.  I also readily confess my ignorance.
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> While coming home from GCT tonight, I was talking with a Metro North =
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> conductor.
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> First question.  There seems to have been a freight yard just south of =
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> the Beacon train station.  He told me that the yard was for =
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> with the Erie in Maybrook.  Would NYC power interchange the cars =
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> the Poughkeepsie Bridge and then on to Maybrook? I thought that the =
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> bridge "belonged" to the New Haven and that Maybrook also "belonged" =
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> the New Haven or do I have it wrong?
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> Also, while traveling north through Cold Spring (off topic I =
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> there seems to be a road bed running to the right around a large pond. =
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> Is it a road bed? If so, what railroad owned it? Where did it go?
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> Lastly, I was looking at some old pictures recently of the O&W which =
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> spoke to an interchange with the West Shore Line in Cornwall.  If the =
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> proposed bond issue in NY actually upgrades the West Shore Line for =
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> commuter service, is it still possible to connect the Graham Line to =
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> West Shore Line? Is there still enough right of way left to make it =
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> feasible?
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> I really do hate taking the bridge to Beacon every morning to work.
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> Thanks
> Mike Monahan
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