When a railway dies, it leaves a body behind—miles and miles of rails, often left to fade into the underbrush. But a body will eventually enrich the soil around it, and so too has the Penn Central Railroad, being repurposed as the skeleton for 26 miles of paved trails stretching just inside the New York-Connecticut state line. Snaking through Taconic State Park, the Harlem Valley Rail Trail aims to connect Wassaic and Chatham at full completion, giving the communities along the way a path to reach each other and reminding everyone of the natural beauty right around us. Founded…
