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April 30, 2003 John T. Chiarella

The "Old Put" Rail Trail Route 6 crossing in the Hamlet of Carmel, NY

The Hamlet of Carmel, NY

#1) the original "Old Put" railroad trestle on the southside of Route 6, just east of Lake Gleneida and Route 52 in the Hamlet of Carmel, NY

#2)The right of way where the northside trestle used to be before the property on this side of Route 6 was sold to a private person, who demolished the trestle on his side and sold the entire, twenty foot high track bed, as top soil. This missing track bed necessitates the building of a long ramp back down to grade or, a series of short, steep switchbacks to get up to the level of the bridge.

#3) The last of the earth left on site from the old trackbed berm.

#4) "Guideposts" http://www.guideposts.org/) driveway. If one proceedes to the right (West) then, to the next big intersection at Lake Gleneida, turns left (South) on Route 6 then, looking left, in about two blocks, for a stand-alone Chinese restaurant, one will see, behind their parking lot, a corniche bicycle path ten feet above the roadway. This bicycle roadway ends, abruptly, right there.

Line up the bike trail along the south wall of the Chinese restaurant and you will find the now-invisible place where the "Old Put" railroad tunnel that passes under Seminary Road is buried. The word is, that it was filled, not demolished, and it should be intact.

The problem is, that Putnam County, in its wisdom, allowed the building of an eldercare facility right where the old tunnel would emerge. Now they can't use the whole of the tunnel, which might have been relatively inexpensive to excavate, but instead, will have to part off, halfway through, leave the old right of way, and cross onto the Guideposts' private property. This circumstance will increase the budget exponentially, if Guideposts will allow it to happen at all. The process will take at minimum, three years. Look for a semi-permanent by-pass-onto-the-street here real soon. Paving of the balance of this stretch of the Trail is scheduled to begin this summer.

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