George wrote:
"Did you spot cars on the Wassic coaling trestle to? It's just up the road a few miles."
You mean "the [Wassaic] state school", right?
We did put some cars in there once, back in the mid-80s, I recall at the time they weren't burning coal in the power plant but wanted some "test coal loads" placed because they were considering going back to coal. I can't remember whether they used the coal or not.
By the time I got running up there, the line ended at Wassaic, having recently been cut back from going up to Millerton. There was Maxon Mills (feed mill) and Triwall (a box company) in Wassaic. There used to be a cattle auction house not far from the tracks, we'd go in there an get something to eat at the cafe counter inside and maybe watch a cow or two get auctioned off. Good days/evenings on the railroad back then!