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- From: yhshowie@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Howard Wharton)
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- Subject: Re: NEC
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:05:00 GMT
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- >
- >Which old New Haven bridge? The bridge is substantially north of Bear Mountain,
- >about 20 miles. It connects Poughkeepsie and Highland, which are around a
- >bend in the river from Newburgh, which is where the Bear Mountain bridge is.
- >There's also an auto bridge about a half mile south of the rail bridge; it must
- >have been pretty spectacular to watch trains go by on the high trestle while
- >stuck in morning traffic. The Poughkeepsie-Highland rail bridge was,
- >incidentally, built in 1888 by the Central New England railroad, and was at the
- >time the longest and highest trestle in existence. I've been told that it was
- >modeled on a very similar but much smaller bridge providing service to the
- >cement factories of nearby Rosendale, NY, and having seen that bridge I wouldn't
- >be surprised if that were the case.
- >
- >--
- The Bear Mountain Bridge is not at Newburgh but a few miles north of Peekskill,
- the bridge at Newburgh is the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge which carries I-84
- over the Hudson.
-