The project has reached completion as far a funding permits as of December 2004.
The trolley museum leases a dump car from the Catskill Mountain Railroad in order to move rip-rap
(large stone).
The car is moved from CMRR's Kingston location to
the trolley museum:
(photo credit: Rich Bause)
(photo credit: Rich Bause)
(photo credit: Rich Bause)
Rental on the tamper ends, so Tartaglia picks it up:
(photo credit: Rich Bause)
The dump car is utilized to move the rip-rap from North. St from where the
material is staged to the causeway:
(photo credit: Randy Weingarten)
Mike Hanna looks on as more rock is loaded
into the car.
(photo credit: Randy Weingarten)
The load is dumped at the edge of the causeway on the Hudson River side.
(photo credit: Randy Weingarten)
(photo credit: Randy Weingarten)
After the rip-rap is dumped along the causeway,
the hi-rail Gradall is used to align the rocks more carefully.
The goal is to tighten the rip-rap so it locks together,
and forms a contour for a path and rock shoulder.
(photo credit: Evan Jennings)
After all the rip-rap is positioned,
small stone is filled in to form a path along the tracks.
(photo credit: Evan Jennings)
Taking the causeway trail...
(photo credit: Evan Jennings)
(photo credit: Evan Jennings)
(photo credit: Evan Jennings)