ABOVE: Sunrise looking over the Hudson River at Poughkipsee in the fall of 2013.
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ABOVE: Sunrise
looking over the Hudson River at Poughkipsee in the fall of
2013.
ABOVE:
Looking in the Direction of New York on the River Line that
CSX Operates.
I would go on a few other trips
with James and Ronnie. When I went with both James and
Ronnie, we left Kings Park at around 3:30 A.M and arrived at
Poughkipsee, NY for sunrise. I took my film camera with me so I
can do the landscape assignment I had for class.We hung around at Highland for a
few hours and saw one train. When the
last car of the train had passed, we heard someone yelling in a
Megaphone. We couldn’t figure out what it was until two canoes,
one with the person holding the Megaphone were approaching where
we were. Once they got close to where we were, we started
shouting things at them. “TUERN THAT THING DOWN! YOURE WAKING
THE NEIGHBORHOOD UP!” they ignored us and kept going.
After Highland, we headed west. We stopped along the way
to take a few photographs of the fall foliage (The whole reason
for the trip in the first place). We eventually ended up at our
next Destination, The Catskill Mountain Railroad. This railroad
has been going through some difficulties because of the city of
Kingston and Ulster County wanting to turn the Right-of-Way into
a trail. The City and County also took the railroad to court.
Anyways, when we arrived the train was just leaving. It was
headed by an ex-Long Island Railroad ALCO S1. Unfortunately,
there were no good photo locations when we arrived because the
sun was in a bad spot in the sky. We went down to the river that
paralleled the tracks and hung out there. We skipped small rocks
and threw the biggest rocks we can lift into the river.
ABOVE:The
old ALCO S1 pulling a small passenger train. (Photo
Courtesy of Ronnie Schenpf)
We
wasted a few hours by the river and went back up to the railroad and
searched for a good photo location. Along the railroad, the
highway runs pretty close. There was a spot where there was no
brush separating the railroad and the highway. We pulled over
and set up for some pictures. After getting a few photographs,
we left and headed back east. We stopped for a few seconds for
me to get a picture of some old railroad equipment and an old
station that we think was part of the old Delaware and Ulster
Railroad. Whoever owns the equipment and station had a Wooden
caboose, a Crane and boom car, a speeder, with a pile of trucks
and ties.