Federal approvals announced on Tuesday clear the way for a $71 million replacement project that would build a new railroad bridge over the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park. Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...

After two years of construction and a $75 million investment from both private and public sources, Norfolk Southern has christened the new Portage Bridge that cuts through Letchworth State Park ...

A working railroad bridge in a state park? Open to visitors? Without some kind of surfacing over the gaps between the ties? What kind of parent takes an acrophobic 8-year-old boy out on the ties ...

It’s time to say goodbye to the iconic trestle bridge over the Genesee River gorge in Letchworth State Park. Work crews have been tearing down the bridge, piece by piece, since early December ...

Norfolk Southern and New York State on May 24 dedicated the new Genesee Arch Bridge on NS’s Southern Tier Line (ex-Conrail, ex-Erie), which spans the 235-foot-deep Genesee River Gorge, known as the ...

The new steel arch railroad bridge over the Genesee River Gorge in Letchworth State Park saw its first train this week. The $75 million span carries the Norfolk Southern Railway Southern Tier Line ...

For many of us in Upstate New York - or in this part of the Northeast, for that matter - one of the great road trips on an autumn afternoon is a drive to Letchworth State Park, in Livingston and ...

The 963-foot-long steel arch single-track span replaces an aging and obsolete bridge that was originally constructed in 1875 by the Erie Railroad Co. It spans the 235-foot deep Genesee River Gorge ...

We looked for the railroad bridge we knew would give us a path to cross over to the western side of Letchworth State Park. Briskly walking to beat the dwindling light we rounded a bend and looked up.

For more than five generations, visitors to Letchworth State Park have ignored “No trespassing” signs — and, occasionally, freight trains — to walk onto an iron-and-steel bridge and gaze 245 ...

Compared with the nation's grandest canyon, Letchworth can't help but come up short. But judged on its own? This park, in the far-western reaches of New York's Finger Lakes region, is terrific ...

Outdoors writer Gillian Scott and her daughter at Lower Falls in Letchworth State Park in western New York.