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Vol. 4: Pine Plains and the RailroadsBicentennial PublicationBy: Lyndon A. Haight 1976 |
§15 Abandonment
 Bridge gang working on CNE bridge at Millbrook. Left to Right: Bert Burger, Henry Smith (almost hidden), Harry Bryan, Frank Smith, Jim Thorpe, Paul Fredenburg, Henry Myers, Floyd Burger (seated), Bill Vallandore, Charles Reuffer. Seated foreground, Robert Wheeler. (V04-48.GIF) |
The abandonment of the Central New England Railway was a gradual process. Even before the CNE was formed the Clove Valley Railroad was closed in 1898. In 1910, that part of the original Poughkeepsie and Connecticut between Salt Point and Pine Plains was torn up. Some of the removed rails were used in rebuilding part of the former Poughkeepsie and Eastern tracks east of Ancram Lead Mines. Beginning in the 1920's the process accelerated.
| 1921 | Feeding Hills and Agawam Junction |
| 1925 | Shekomeko and Millerton Ancram Lead Mines and Boston Corners |
| 1932 | Copake and State Line |
| 1935 | Pine Plains and Shekomeko |
| 1937 | High Street and Tariffville |
| 1938 | East Canaan and New Hartford
Hartford and Feeding Hills Silvernails and Rhinecliff Silvernails and Copake Silvernails and Pine Plains Pine Plains and Poughkeepsie Junction Pine Plains and Hopewell Junction Pine Plains and Ancram Lead Mines Salt Point and Poughkeepsie Junction Millerton and Lakeville |
| 1940 | Canaan and East Canaan |
| 1965 | Lakeville and Canaan |
| Taking up the rails at S. Main St. crossing, Pine Plains. (V04-49.GIF) |
A section was still in use from Maybrook to Hopewell Junction in 1974, when a fire damaged part of the Poughkeepsie Bridge. This still awaits repair in spring, 1975.
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