BEACON – The portion of the Harlem
Valley Line of Metro-North that is currently not in use could be used
for a rail trail, Beacon Mayor Randy Casale said.
Casale said the railroad does not want to remove the tracks in the event they are needed in a diversionary situation.
“If we can set a trail alongside of them right in their easement that makes sense because if they ever want to back trains or trolleys, you have the tracks in there,” the mayor said. “Once you take them out, you will never put them back. I don’t know if it will ever happen, but now they want to look how they could realign them so they can give us 25 foot right-of-way so we can separate the tracks from the bike trail.”
Casale said he would like to explore the possibility of running a train from Fishkill to the Beacon train station.
