Re: (rshsdepot) Poughkeepsie RR Bridge

[luckyshow_@_mindspring.com]

they aren't meaning the entire length of bridge, correct?

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>Subject: (rshsdepot) Poughkeepsie RR Bridge
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>From today's Times Herald-Record.
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>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.  
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>In the late 1990s, a group of local volunteers began a  grass-roots campaign 
>to save the bridge.
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