The property where the engines and rolling stock are located are on private property owned by Beacon Harbor LLC. This would also include what remains of the Cabbage Island Branch south of Port Road and the property between Normanskill Creek and the power plant. North of where the tracks cross over and run parallel to Port Road are owned by the D&H. I would 'presume' the bridge is owned by Beacon Harbor, LLC as well - but because it's an abandoned bridge over a waterway - really couldn't ascertain that by looking at the tax maps. Who knows what the pipeline on the bridge is used for (or if it's even still in use)... because it's insulated, I would presume high pressure steam from the power plant to the industries on Cabbage Island, or heated bunker oil to the plant from a tank farm to the north?... but that may have been discontinued years ago...?
Here's where I found my info:
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The power plant is no longer owned by Niagara Mohawk or National Grid - it's an independent power generator that sells it's power on the open market and is carried off to the 'grid' by National Grid. Trust me - they want NOTHING to do with any of this. So that option is off the table.
To repair that bridge, because it's over a waterway that empties out a watershed area into the Hudson, you're looking at getting permits from the Army Corps of Engineers, and who knows what kind of shape those pilings are in below the waterline. They may look intact from a distance, but you don't know what you're getting yourself into until you've had then inspected underwater. I'm no engineer, but I can tell you that bridge has a zero live load rating in it's current condition. The FRA has shut down bridges in better condition. There is no way you're dragging 125 ton locomotives over that structure. Cost to repair the line and bridge? Even just something minimal for a hospital move you're talking high 6-figure, low-7 figure range when you factor in the pilings in the water for the main span, cranes on barges (assuming the water is deep enough), etc. It's a huge undertaking any way you slice it.
As said, the time to move those engines was over 20 years ago.
But hey - if someone with deep pockets wants to finance all of this - I'm all for it. I'm just not optimistic that it will ever happen.