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

Map

The original Wallkill Valley rail line, stretching from Montgomery to Kingston

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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"

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  The trestle, spanning the former Delaware and Hudson Canal, as well as Rondout Creek

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  Hikers on the re-opened trestle

• View from the trestle of Joppenbergh Mountain (left), NY 213 (center), and Rondout Creek (right)

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  An engineer from Bergmann Associates surveying the trestle in late 2010

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  The northern half of the trestle in 2008, without decking or guard rails

References

• 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.