(rshsdepot) Poughkeepsie RR Bridge

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From today's Times Herald-Record.
 
Bernie Wagenblast
 
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Poughkeepsie railroad bridge gets state grant
By _Jeremiah  Horrigan_ 
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December 19, 2007  
POUGHKEEPSIE — The state has awarded a $500,000 grant to  Walkway Over the 
Hudson, the local effort to transform the abandoned  Poughkeepsie railroad 
bridge into a public park.
The money will come from the  state’s Environmental Protection Fund, which is 
part of the Office of Parks,  Recreation and Historic Preservation.
The bridge was built in 1888, an  engineering marvel that was then the 
longest bridge in the world. After a 1974  fire, the bridge was abandoned.  

In the late 1990s, a group of local volunteers began a  grass-roots campaign 
to save the bridge.



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