I find this most interesting. There IS a high car Detector at CP 128, and if the car is over 20'2 " it will trigger an alarm. There are three electric eyes on this detector, all with various heights, but if the car inquestion exceeded the highest electric eye, then an alarm should have been tripped. There is also a readout in the Dispatcher's office as well as the radio alarm. Most times, the dispatcher will tell the crew over the radio the results of the scan after they have passed it, primarily to verify the "no defects" transmission and to verify the highest cars in the train, that is, which of the 3 heights settings were activated. If the car is over 20' 2. the first underpass is at MP 126, adjacent to Rte 9W, the next is the NY Thruway, and the next one is immediately north of the Catskill bridge an MP 110.5. The clearance on this third bridge is close enough that anything over 20' 4" would have very likely struck the overpass and not made it as far as Kingston, 9W crosses at MP 109.7(another close clearance), and there is also a location by MP 101 where 9W crosses over the tracks that also would have been struck, so I have to admit to some scepticism to this "excellence in journalism". Given the nature of the relationship with CSX and the City of Kinbston, I almost have to wonder if the reporter wasn't fed some story just to "play with" the reporter a bit.....
I know I'm getting old... My insurance company sent me only half a calendar this year!