The Island Line Trail, also known as the Colchester Causeway, is a 14-mile (23 km) rail trail located in northwest Vermont. It comprises the Burlington Bike Path (Burlington), Colchester Park (Colchester) and the Allen Point Access Area (South Hero).
There was little on-line traffic left on that portion of the route and freight for Canada could be routed from Burlington north to Montreal over the somewhat longer Central Vermont Railway through St. Albans, Vermont. After several years of inactivity, restoring service on the Island Line would have required extensive rebuilding, and renovations of the three swing bridges on the line, over various bays of Lake Champlain. Ultimately all of the bridges on the route were removed, but the roadbed on the causeway across the lake survived, as it was heavily built with much use of granite. The alignment along the shores of Lake Champlain from Burlington Union Station north to the causeway was converted to form the Burlington Bike Path, and later took the Island Line name when the causeway was reopened, with a seasonal bike-ferry replacing the swing bridge in the northern portion of the causeway alignment. Due to a 200-foot (61 m) gap in the causeway, the organization Local Motion operates the Island Line Bike Ferry to shuttle cyclists across the gap.
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Hale Eddy, where Sullivan County Route 4, Lower Hale Eddy Road, Silver Lake Road and Roods Creek Road cross NY 17 at Grade with stop lights and sto signs.
As you can see, Ferris Lake is not super easy to access via foot. The East Canada Creek is mucky and difficult to cross without a kayak or cane. The forest is somewhat thick, and you have to climb up and over the ridge to get to Ferris Lake.
There is an old snowmobile trail/woods road by the Powley Place Bridge, that extends 2.5 miles west to Big Alderbed, that takes you to a wire crossing over the East Branch. The trail follows the East Branch for a short distance, then heads back into an interesting Old Growth Forest with a lot of big trails. To reach Big Alderbed -- which is largely drained wetland due to a failed dam -- you have to bushwhack along the stream to the mouth of the wetland.
Big Eddy Trail: Take the White House Connector Trail 0.2 miles to Northville Placid Trail. Head North-West on the NPT until you climb over a small ridge (roughly 60 feet ascent) and then bear right at 1/2 mile mark. Head 0.8 mile to two campsites and the cable crossing over Hamilton Lake Stream.
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Harrisburg Road becomes a narrow dirt road after Harrisburg Lake. Passably by most cars are there are several designated campsites along the road.
The southern branch of the East Stony Creek is either crossed by a pedestrian bridge or a 4x4 truck via a ford in low water.
To the west is Wilcox Lake Trail (past a privately owned hunting camp and barrier) and to the east is Harrisburg Lake.
The Kintigh Generating Station, also known as Somerset Operating Co. LLC of the Upstate New York Power Producers was a 675-megawatt coal-fired power plant located in Somerset, New York. The plant was owned by AES Corporation until bankruptcy. Its only currently operating unit was launched into service in 1984. It is the second last operating coal-fired power plant in New York, the only other one operating in the state is AES Cayuga, north of Ithaca, across from the Taughannock State Park.
Coal is provided to the plant via the Somerset Railroad. The waste heat is dumped into Lake Ontario, resulting in a warm-water plume visible on satellite images. The plant's smoke stack can be seen across Lake Ontario from the shores of Toronto, Pickering, Oshawa, and Ajax, Ontario. It can also be seen from points along the Niagara Escarpment, including Lockport, NY, approximately 20 miles south.
Power from the plant is transferred by dual 345kV power lines on wood pylons, which run south from the plant through rural agricultural land. In Royalton, NY they split at their physical junction with the dual circuit 345-kV Niagara-to-Edic transmission line, owned by the New York Power Authority, one circuit heads west to a substation at Niagara Falls, the other heads east to Station 80 south of Rochester.
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