Thanks for sharing. I enjoy learning about the local history. Please keep up the great work

This is really good ! I had no idea that there was a rail line to the hospital - well done !

I lived in poughkeepsie for 30 years. I remember a lot the stores of Jamesway Caldor South Hills Mall 8 years ago I returned to Mexico Poughkeepsie it was my second home I practice English so I don't forget thank you Poughkeepsie for everything from the bottom of my heart God bless Poughkeepsie

This was a beautiful episode. Tre story almost got hit by a a train just few feet past the rt9 bridge ! I do remember bing up at the end the hospital u could find the old coal dumb ! Super interesting

Great job!! Excellent video! :)

Back in the late 70s when I was at Duchess Community College, we played baseball on the grounds of the hospital.

Great Video!!

I posted a link to the history of the line thanks so much for this video!

Worked the Poughkeepsie switcher many times the last 10 years we were going up in town. 4 very active customers right until the late 90s. This was all old CNE / New Haven trackage. To this day Metro North still refers to their yard next to the treatment facility as the "CNE" yard. That Conrail switcher had a very dedicated New Haven Conductor on it to the last day it ran, because of his dedicated effort to get the customers served on some really under maintained tracks a lot of those customers stuck with rail service for many years .

You should take that historic switch, it will just go into a land fill once all that land is turned into condos and houses.

Another enjoyable coal tipple video! It made perfect sense to have that second siding off the tipple sidings to spot the pulled empties on so the loads could be spotted on the tipples, rather than having to take them all the way down to the yard before bringing the loads back up. Neat to find that old Ramapo switch stand still connected to the switch points! I can understand your excitement finding that artifact. I'd be tempted to clear away obstructions to see if I could still throw the switch.

Waiting for it to warm up a bit today the pain between my left ankle and the last couple days the right foot and legs decide to get swelled up on lymphedema. I figured I'd watch one of your lengthier shows as I can't stand that stupid BS on TV such as Let's Make a Deal. These were the kinds of hikes I live for I hope I can do it again someday. No the train won't reappear nor will that part of the power plant be burning coal but when you brushed off the metal plate by the switch band it was like Moses and one of the tablets had been uncovered. Just standing on those Mossy ties there are some great photo possibilities plus that huge tree that grew over the rail that kind of stuff was just a turn on when I was in my teens already. So many rail enthusiasts won't look at it because there is no actual train in sight or for some it's too old to relate to. Your comments about the car and then your apology about misbranding the tracks wearing your bandana followed by the wheelchair escapade I just burst out laughing. Every state seemed to have some Institution of mega size proportion but the Wisconsin one wasn't that big and wasn't served by rail and may be totally torn down by now. I appreciate the inclusion of the turn of the century pictures and I note that one of them must be near a warehouse when most everything moved by rail including furniture and some food plus those delightful looking uniforms. To a degree that power plant is just a bit bigger than the one that was in upper Michigan near Newberry. The whole operation may be shut down but to this day we still laugh about trying to escape from up there because of the small population where everyone knows you as well as The Long Winter or the swampy bug infested areas. We always said you'd have to swing aboard a Virginian Hopper car being pulled by Duluth South Shore and Atlantic RS1 then ride it east all the way to the Chief Wawatam car ferry and from there ride the mighty Pennsylvania All the Way South to some obscure town in Indiana. This tape made my day I want you to know I truly enjoyed the research you put into it and the Personal Touch describing it

I lived in Poughkeepsie from 1979 to 1995. I had a part time job driving a taxi and well recall driving on the hospital grounds. There were red-brick buildings that were part of the hospital that were east of 9G but were long abandoned. the tracks to the power plant were there and a branch from it to a freight house but the tracks were paved over on the road. My ex-wife's father was the fire chief in the town of P and he was involved in the bridge fire. Under the bridge on the east side was Andy's restaurant that had the best chili in town. I wonder if it's still there? Off of Delafield street as I recall. I think it was the hospital branch that went by where I worked in 1980, a place called Blocksom that received rail cars in and out and Western Printing was over the road and they had rail service too. Blocksom was a nasty place to work. I later got a job aat Vassar college and they hired a few people that worked at Western after they closed down.

The Tunnel Rt 9 passes over was constructed around 1994 - 95, I first went down there in 1996. I think they also made Rt 9 wider in that project from 2 lanes total to its now four lanes going North and South. So I'm always trying to remember, did the tracks just cross over Rt 9 prior to the tunnel being constructed? I always remember the tracks coming from the side of Kem cards, but was it all just level at that point and the train would pull right across 9 to get to the stretch that joins back up to the main MTA line? Ive always wondered about that.

Nice job Russ!

I hope I see ya out in town. I’ve got tons of questions Yerrrr 😊

Some time after I moved to this area , my father informed me that he used to ship coal to Hudson River State Hospital. A lot of Western Pennsylvania coal made its way to Poughkeepsie.

Great video, thanks for sharing. In trying to track your walk on Google Earth, it looks like the line runs out east of the powerplant/tipple to about 41°44'.98"N 73°55'.31"W, where there was a wye or reversing switch, is this correct? It also appears that after the switchback, the coal cars would have been lined up on the north side of the powerplant? Thanks.

This is interesting. I only been up in that area once (1971 or 1972) and I had a girlfriend that lived in a subdivision behind the hospital.

That curved pipe at the end of the video might have been a static discharge but they're usually straight not curved.

I'm really surprised so much rail was left in the woods to rust.

Man this bring back memorys ...almot got hit by a train coming between marist b4 you pass u der rt 9 .it was up toll about 15 or so years a go u could sse the track to were they would dumb the coal for the hospital

They didn't have much to work with for ground rock, building those condos at the old Dutton site. They had to pile drive hundreds and hundreds of pilings into the ground to stabilize it. Weeks and weeks of pounding. 🤦 Edit: the tracks on the secondary, as well as the spur that ran up through Pok past the county jail and up to Cottage St, were pulled up in the late '90s and early 2000s. They were gone by 2005 or so.

I was a RN at Ross hired in 2007. Andrew Cuomo closed the facility unfortunately because it did a disservice to the patients who had family around Poughkeepsie. Some dirty dealings going on there.

And all the people who should be cared for were thrown over for money Its disgraceful

Interesting, thanks.