No. 518399) and a privately owned caboose CMRR 674 (ex-Susquehanna 117). Additionally in Kingston the CMRR owns a self-powered ex-Navy crane, CMRR 991, and a 40-foot tender flat CMRR 291 (ex-Army 35305). In Phoenicia, storage equipment consists of a 40-foot box car (Ex-LV 65100). Work Train equipment includes: a former Army Difco dump car, a 40-foot flatcar, CMRR 202 (Ex-CV 7704) and an N6A transfer caboose, CMRR 697 (Ex NYC/PC/CR 18015). Phoenicia equipment also includes a privately owned N5G steel caboose, CMRR 673 (former Lehigh Valley 95041). This caboose was used as a gift shop at Mt. Tremper for many years before it was returned to the rails in 2010. The frame and trucks of former LS&I caboose No. 6, which were bought by a CMRR volunteer in the 1980s, are in storage in Phoenicia. Ashokan Rail Trail Conversion History The removal of rail and conversion to trail for the CMRR's portion of the U&D Corridor from MP 10.01 to MP 21.59 for the Ashokan Rail Trail was a long and bitter fight between rail and trail advocates. A partial history follows below. On January 24, 2006, when the Kingston Daily Freeman announced "Trail Plan Could Mark End of Line for Railroad", trail advocates began promoting a plan to convert segments of the county-owned railroad corridor into a recreational path, which would limit the length and location of the tourist train excursions. ALTA Engineering was hired to devise a rail-with-trail plan for the line in Ulster County. The final report stated the following: On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to remove 32 miles of rails in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations. He planned to start removing rails in 2013, using $642,000 in scrapping revenues to provide revenue for his budget. The budget was adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on December 4, 2012. The CMRR's lease, however, remained in effect until May 31, 2016. There is no reference to scrapping the railroad in the proposed 2014 Ulster County Budget. Three days after the 2013 budget was approved, the CMRR opened Bridge C9 in Kingston for passenger train service, and began bringing passengers across the bridge for the first time in over 58 years. On February 19, 2013, CMRR published a rail-with-trail study for MP 3 to 11