Talk:Poughkeepsie Bridge

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This article did not seem to exist yet near as I could tell although it had multiple red links (over 20!). Since I am a railfan, and since I lived in the area for 10 years, it seemed fitting. I fetched an image from the Library of Congress to use for it. Should I have cropped that image to remove the HAER indexing and so forth??? Comments are very welcome, I am only an egg at article creation. ++Lar 03:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] switch lead image?

this image, also from HAER, is much more dramatic, maybe it should be switched. I will do it next time I work on this article barring any objection. (note, there are also good shots of the central third beam/girder/support system that probably should be added) ++Lar: t/c 13:25, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Very nice article. Thank you for your wonderful contribution. I have one relatively minor comment or question. I interpret the sentence from the article quoted below to mean that the bridge was the largest span across the Hudson until the Bear Mountain Bridge was built, although I don't know that for a fact. However, if the reader didn't know that the Bear Mountain Bridge is a highway bridge and the Poughkeepsie Bridge was exclusively a railroad bridge he/she might think that either the Bear Mountain Bridge became an alternate route for trains or that it reduced automobile congestion on the Poughkeepsie Bridge. Indeed didn't the Poughkeepsie Bridge continue to be the main crossing of the Hudson for trains even after the Bear Mountain Bridge was built?

"The bridge remained as the main Hudson River crossing south of Albany until the construction of the Bear Mountain Bridge in 1924, and was advertised as a way to avoid New York City congestion (see the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route article for more information). " Hochstein (talk) 23:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)