Re: (rshsdepot) Poughkeepsie RR Bridge

["James Kelling" <james.kelling_@_nara.gov>]

Only a single track now runs through Maybrook yard, which closed in
1974.  The station, which stood near the present VFW, is long gone;
however, there is a small museum in town which covers the history of
railroad operations there.
 
J. Kelling

>>> brudberg_@_optonline.net 12/19/2007 3:33 PM >>>

The rail traffic on the bridge was down to a small fraction of previous
years when the bridge burned.  There was not enough traffic to keep the
line alive even if the bridge did not burn.  Most of the New England
rail shippers are gone and very few people use coal today.  The
remaining shippers are on major truck routes, not railroads.  Even the
big rail yard in Maybrook is now a truck terminal just off interstate
84.

The railroads were not about to spend millions of dollars to fix a
bridge when there was not enough revenue traffic to pay for a paint
job.

Bernie Rudberg

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