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(rshsdepot) CNE Tour 2006
Via Bernard Rudberg <brudberg_@_frontiernet.net>
Sent Monday, January 9, 2006 12:56 am
Subject CNE Tour 2006
Hello All -
This is to advise one and all that the 2006 segment of the annual bus tours along various
portions of the former Central New England Railway is ready to accept reservations. We are
pleased to announce that these tours will now and in the future be co-sponsored by the Maybrook
Railroad Historical Society. This year's tour will be run on Sunday, April 2nd (rain or shine).
We will depart from the parking lot across the street from the Metro North RR train station
parking garage in Poughkeepsie. From the lot there is a great view of the big RR bridge just to
the north.
Routing for this year's tour will essentially follow the routes of the former Poughkeepsie &
Eastern and the former Poughkeepsie & Connecticut both of which were taken over by the
CNE. The P&E RR was built before the big Hudson River RR bridge to run from Poughkeepsie
to Connecticut. The bridge company intended to buy the P&E for access to Connecticut and new
England. P&E management refused to sell so they built the P&C RR in parallel to connect with
the Rhinebeck & Connecticut/H&CW in 1889 at Silvernails to reach CT.
As usual, everybody will get a copy of the 2006 CNE Tour guide book. We have a lot of ground
to cover so we will have coffee and Poughkeepsie RR Bridge photo shooting at 8:30 and busses
will roll at 9:00.
Some of the high points will be the site of the former CNE station yard along Parker Avenue
(was the Maybrook Line) and the P&E yard on Smith St in Poughkeepsie. East of Pok is Van
Wagners where the two lines ran near to each other and there is a caboose in the field. Next stop
will be the restored Pleasant Valley station now located on West Road. Farther east we will see
the site of the Salt Point cornfield meet. We will go through Clinton Corners and head for Pine
Plains for lunch at Lia's restaurant. Those of you who were on board last year will remember
Lia's lunch. On the way back we plan to see Stissing Junction, McIntyre, The Stanfordville
station (now a residence) plus the creamery site. If we get all this in, we will be ready to head
back to Poughkeepsie.
This routing is subject to change if we run into any last minute problems or find a new way to
get the busses into a small space. Due to the narrow roads and lack of suitable parking in much
of the general area of our tour, some locations can only be shown from the bus windows or in
photographs. We will show you as much as we possibly can. At the end of the tour our buses
will run express back to the parking lot in Poughkeepsie.
The cost of this year's tour will again be $45.00 per person and payment should be made out to
"MRHS-CNE 2006" or Maybrook RR Historical Society - CNE 2006
Send it to:
CNE 2006 -JOE MATO
62 WOOD ROAD
REDDING, CT. 06896
As we did last year, we have two buses with 55 seats each. Last year we sold all 110
seats and had a waiting list so don't wait too long to send in your reservation.
Please note that any request for refunds must be received thirty (30) or more days in advance of
the tour date. If you can find a replacement to take your bus seat, that's OK just let us know
who it is. We have to know who to let onto the bus when the tour starts. If you can't find a
replacement then we may have somebody on the waiting list to suggest but we can't refund
money that has already been spent on tour expenses.
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