Good afternoon folks!!
New member, always had a slight affinity for the rails, and rail history.
My Great Great-Grandfather was an Engineer around the turn-of-the-century, and my Great-Grandfather started as a fireman, eventually becoming an Engineer roughly from the 1930's-'70's. I believe they were on the Boston & Albany, and through the Selkirk Yard.
I grew up in Hopewell Jct., have followed the amazing work that Bernie has done over the years restoring the Hopewell Depot, and always wondered about the history of the local rails.
Actually grew up right around the corner from the old Clove Branch, and that is pretty much what really spurned me to look into the history, and found out all about the locals, the ND&C, CNE, NY&NE, R&C, P&E, P&C, all the name changes etc...
I always felt I was born in the wrong era, and would have LOVED to have been around and seen any/all of this!
Unfortunately I was born well after the Poughkeepsie Bridge Fire, and only ever saw limited rail traffic in and through the Beacon Line in Hopewell growing up before that petered out.
Anywho I digress.... I know this thread has been dead for a while, but I traced out and made a Google Path/Fly file for the Clove Branch RR, which previously mentioned, was not included.
Before finding out about the OTHER Google Fly files and wonderful work that had been done, I took the historical images from the Dutchess County website from 1936 and the 1940's, overlaid them into Google Earth, and traced out all the old ROW's (which thankfully I found match the ones previously made). I am trying to incorporate as much data as I can possibly find (a lot from here and Bernie's site), such as pictures, Wiki Article links, Hyperlinks to other sites with valuable information, and attach them TO the appropriate Google Fly files.
I hope you all find this useful, and I would be happy to gather as much information/data/whatever I can and incorporate them into this project!
New member, always had a slight affinity for the rails, and rail history.
My Great Great-Grandfather was an Engineer around the turn-of-the-century, and my Great-Grandfather started as a fireman, eventually becoming an Engineer roughly from the 1930's-'70's. I believe they were on the Boston & Albany, and through the Selkirk Yard.
I grew up in Hopewell Jct., have followed the amazing work that Bernie has done over the years restoring the Hopewell Depot, and always wondered about the history of the local rails.
Actually grew up right around the corner from the old Clove Branch, and that is pretty much what really spurned me to look into the history, and found out all about the locals, the ND&C, CNE, NY&NE, R&C, P&E, P&C, all the name changes etc...
I always felt I was born in the wrong era, and would have LOVED to have been around and seen any/all of this!
Unfortunately I was born well after the Poughkeepsie Bridge Fire, and only ever saw limited rail traffic in and through the Beacon Line in Hopewell growing up before that petered out.
Anywho I digress.... I know this thread has been dead for a while, but I traced out and made a Google Path/Fly file for the Clove Branch RR, which previously mentioned, was not included.
Before finding out about the OTHER Google Fly files and wonderful work that had been done, I took the historical images from the Dutchess County website from 1936 and the 1940's, overlaid them into Google Earth, and traced out all the old ROW's (which thankfully I found match the ones previously made). I am trying to incorporate as much data as I can possibly find (a lot from here and Bernie's site), such as pictures, Wiki Article links, Hyperlinks to other sites with valuable information, and attach them TO the appropriate Google Fly files.
I hope you all find this useful, and I would be happy to gather as much information/data/whatever I can and incorporate them into this project!
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