Rosendale Trestle
The Rosendale Trestle is a bridge in Ulster County, New York. It was completed in 1872. It also was a railroad. It is 940 feet long.
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Design | Post truss |
| History | |
| Fabrication by | Carnegie Steel Company |
| Construction start | 1870 |
| Construction end | 1872 |
| Location | |
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Rosendale Trestle Media
The railroad bridge as it was originally built, prior to its 1895 reconstruction
A depiction of two women walking under the trestle, in the area known as "Dead Man's Stretch"
The trestle, spanning the former Delaware and Hudson Canal, as well as Rondout Creek
Hikers on the re-opened trestle
View from the trestle of Joppenbergh Mountain (left), NY 213 (center), and Rondout Creek (right)
An engineer from Bergmann Associates surveying the trestle in late 2010
The northern half of the trestle in 2008, without decking or guard rails
References
- ↑ Mabee 1995, pp. 18–20.
- Mabee, Carleton (1995). Listen to the Whistle: An Anecdotal History of the Wallkill Valley Railroad. Fleishmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press. ISBN 978-0-935796-69-8.
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