- ... that in 2009 the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail (pictured), a public walkway in upstate New York, nearly doubled in length?
- ... that the Rosendale trestle, once the highest span bridge in the United States, was sold in 1986 for one dollar?
- ... that La Stazione, a restaurant and former train station in New Paltz, New York, burned down in 1907, killing the station agent's dog?