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Any of you realize the operating conditions of that Poughkeepsie bridge when it was being used? Talking to a friend who was an engineer having run trains over that bridge, the max speed you could go was 7 mph. You could not use the brakes on the bridge either. Also the bridge dipped down in the middle, so halfway over it you had to start pulling like a son of a gun. Sometimes trains would get stuck on the bridge, had to wait for a helper locomotive to come along. Apparently going any faster on the bridge, or using brakes, could actually hurt the bridge.
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