Did I mention I hate heights? Heights make my knees feel like jelly DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com After Dallas turned an old rail line into a park — the Katy Trail — it spawned imitators around the country.
Among them is New York’s Rail Trail. When completed, it will stretch more than 700 miles. I walked one of the most magnificent couple of miles of Rail Trail just as the leaves were beginning to change color.
The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge, built in 1886, is the oldest surviving steel cantilever bridge in the world. And I was going to walk a mile-and-a-half over this rusting, 125-year-old span. (Did I mention how much I don’t like heights?