by Maybrook fan
So that's why the tracks were disconnected at 311 in Towners. Is the bridge raising a Metro North or a NY DOT project ???? And is any scheduled to take place yet ?
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YamaOfParadise wrote:And then you take into consideration the quite steep grades involved in the route; the reason it had continuing value to the NH despite this was solely because of the Poughkeepsie Bridge, which could generate a high amount of through traffic on it that wouldn't otherwise be reachable to them.Not strictly true; the reason this route outlasted the closure of the Poughkeepsie Bridge by 20-odd years was that it served as a shortcut between Southern New England and Upstate New York. The Selkirk-Cedar Hill road freights lasted until Conrail sold the line in the early '90s.
'YamaOfParadise wrote: In the end, trains returning to the Maybrook is only going to come about as a result of some large and (most likely) unpredictable shift in the region's status quo.Elsewhere on this board there's been talk of Hartford Line congestion someday spurring the reconstruction of the last 7-odd miles of the Armory Branch from the MA state line to the old B&A interchange. That's the only sort of scenario in which I could imagine service returning, at least west of Brewster (I think Brewster-Danbury passenger service has a better chance of becoming reality, since that would link Danbury to White Plains-- but I'm not holding my breath on that one either.)
DutchRailnut wrote:relatively small amount of crossings ?? 8 crossings in about 10 miles. and when I was on two shuttle moves, after Danbury wash out, those 10 miles were in such shape as to be scarier than *, even at 10 mph.I'm counting 5 public crossings (as in crossing a public street), and 3 private ones (one industry driveway, one leading to some dirt trails, and one that's part of the town park on Lake Tonetta in Brewster); that's still 8 crossings, but.
but then again it looks great from side line...