in Wednesday's 06-20-2012 Poughkeepsie Journal article "County obtains rail bed" it was reported that the Walkway organization, which had acquried the 8/10 mile former CSX 'mainline' (the old Maybrook line) ROW property from the very east end of the WOTH state park to the Morgan Lake northern terminus DRT trailhead earlier this year,will be donated to Dutchess county - I guess it took this long for the Walkway organization to write the check to CSX
the deal to acquire the property was negotiated by NY Senator Chuck Schumer
the remaining trackless ROW is still owned by CSX - why they still want to own this property is beyond me
I had hoped the property would be donated to the city of Poughkeepsie instead as part of a,albeit small, trail system - so far the city of Poughkeepsie has only the path in Waryas park at the river that will be extended to the WOTH for access to the new elevator
there is a siding ROW that goes from Parker Ave. UNDER the 'mainline' ROW to behind St. Francis hospital and the Marist College Cedar Ave. townhouses - this would provide a link from the above to the WOTH or other parts of Poughkeepsie
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