A sneak preview, Delaware & Ulster Railroad tourist train in Arkville, New York

rwk

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I just started this, and recolored a station from the DLS and put two side by side for a longer building for the Arkville station. I want to do all of the tourist era section as well as some of the out of service part toward Pine Hill and Big Indian past Highmount that the railroad wanted to restore to further extend rides that way but trail people opposed the reactivation of the tracks and a small bridge was even removed to prevent that part of the railroad from being reactivated. West of Phoenicia where the Empire State Railroad Museum is and the Catskill Mountain Railroad was, are several washouts of the railroad heading toward Big Indian. Ulster County is hostile toward the CMRR and wants most of the track ripped up for a trail, some was already by a dam west of the CMRR's Kingston segment with a new bridge built over Esopus Creek at Boiceville for trail users, the old railroad bridge was mostly washed away by Hurricane Irene in 2011. The D&U is mostly in Delaware County with the Highmount end in Ulster County I believe. The only section that is safe from future removal at this point is the D&U section from Arkville to Roxbury and Arkville to Highmount. Beyond Roxbury is a rail trail as well. The D&U tourist railroad is essentially landlocked with no rail connection to the outside world. The other existing segments are as well that are used by the CMRR.

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