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Poughkeepsie, NY – Local, New York state, and federal officials took crowbars in hand and pulled railroad spikes out of the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge to symbolically start the transformation of the bridge into the Walkway Over the Hudson Park. Congressman Maurice Hinchey and State Senator Steven Saland were among the officials who pried the first spikes out of the bridge Tuesday launching the renovation period for the 120-year-old structure. The bridge was first purchased by the Walkway group back in 1995 and group Chairman Fred Schaeffer called the effort over the last 16 years, and the lifting of the first spikes following the ceremony, monumental. WAMC's Hank Gross has more...