J.M.W. Turner's "Chichester Canal" at the Tate Gallery, London

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Don’t be dumping it in Phoenicia

Story from Daily Freeman:
Phoenicia won’t be dumping ground for Catskill Mountain Railroad items from Kingston, group’s president says



Railroad cars and equipment are shown at the Catskill Mountain Railroad site in Phoenicia. Photo by Jay Braman Jr.

The head of the Catskill Mountain Railroad says most of the railroad’s belongings that have been ordered removed from the Kingston rail yard will not be relocated to Phoenicia.
“In Phoenicia, there’s no change in operation,” Ernie Hunt said this week. “It’s going to be no different than last year.”
But Anique Taylor, who lives on Lower High Street in Phoenicia, just a stone’s throw from the railroad’s property in the town of Shandaken hamlet, has doubts.
Taylor says she has seen equipment being trucked into the Phoenicia yard over the past couple weeks. She’s also concerned about the railroad’s effort to get town approval to build more infrastructure on the site. That matter is to be discussed by Shandaken Zoning Board of Appeals during a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Town Hall on Route 28 in Allaben.