New york, new haven and hartford, maybrook yard, hudson river rail bridge and ferry

[@BOOTEDTRAINSCHANNEL]

Great history of the Maybrook, thanks for your video.

[@brianburns7211]

I’m glad to see this. My uncle who was a former New Haven employee took me on a series of trips to explore the CNE. We covered the whole lime between Hartford and Campbell Hall. My uncle also told me stories about working over Poughkeepsie Bridge and how he never really trusted it.

[@RobertValinsky]

I live in southwestern CT near part of the what was the Maybrook line. I sure do miss those days years ago when big freight trains used to run on the maybrook line.

[@tomp8871]

Simply amazing. Old railroader here. I got the we be geezees going over the Cape Cod Canal in a freight train on a lift bridge ( hope they line up ), but been over the Hudson also, nice and scary, no rails on side and pretty high I might tink! thanks for the vid

[@yrunaked4]

I have always been fascinated with that unique bridge. Nice work.

[@dave3216]

Very informative. Great video.

[@pjheloguy]

Great video. I’ve walked that bridge several times since it’s conversion into a walkway. I would have loved to have seen a train cross that magnificent bridge.

[@WayneKeen]

My family lived in Wappingers through much of the 1970s. My mother reacted very badly to the smoke from the burning bridge. I drove under the bridge many times commuting to Duchess Community College and later Vassar, and frequently wondered what the eventual fate of the bridge would be, but I don't think the idea of a walkway ever occurred to my pea-like brain. Oh yeah, I remember walking along the rails down towards Hopewell Junction in the years after the fire, occasionally splashing around in one of the small creeks that the line went over.

[@DA0470]

It would be spectacular if Norfolk Southern would open the line plus the Maybrook Yard once again. If the yard was open now, it could be used for intermodal plus automotive traffic.

[@franciscampagna2711]

Thank you. On a trip to Poughkeepsie in 1970, I saw an Eastbound Penn Central freight crossing the bridge. 3 U25Bs on a freight shorter than the bridge. in 1979, I moved to Poughkeepsie. I walked under the east end of the bridge almost every day. Although out of service for years, the tracks on both ends were still in place. The westbound signal on the bridge approach was still lit, showing red.

[@train5974]

In 1979 they still were going to Danbury from Poughkeepsie serving a few customers on the line.

[@train5974]

I watched many trains go across that were longer than the bridge. 5 ge u33c 's and about 200 freight cars.

[@POBulkhead]

I took my wife for a stroll there. Four years past.

[@cats0182]

And today, it's the Walkway Across The Hudson Park.

[@train5974]

The bridge fire was arson by penn central.

[@milepost71nodefects92]

NEWBURGH IS EAST OF MAYBROOK, not South!