Empire State Railway Museum
Empire State Railway Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 242 m. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the southwest, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Rail Explorers, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.
The story
Established in 1960, the Empire State Railway Museum is a non-profit railroad museum currently located in the historic Ulster & Delaware Phoenicia Railroad Station, Phoenicia, New York. The station was built in 1899 by the U&D, and is one of the few surviving examples left along the line. The museum owns a small collection of historic railroad equipment. The museum was formerly the publisher of the annual Steam Railroad Directory until the 2006 edition, when the title was taken over by Kalmbach Publishing and now released as the Tourist Trains Guidebook.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1984.
Wikidata Q5374152, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 18.4 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- High Falls · 20 mi
- White Dot · 21 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 23 mi
- Copes Lookout · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Parish Field: 0.3 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 0.4 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 4.2 mi
- Glenbrook Park: 5.5 mi
- Big Indian Park: 7.2 mi
- Romer Mountain Unit: 1.1 mi
- Simpson Ski Slope: 1.2 mi
- Sheridan Mountain Unit: 1.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant Unit: 1.9 mi
- Stony Clove Creek Unit: 2.0 mi
- Tremper Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Romer Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Sheridan Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Hoyt Hollow: 2.5 mi
- Garfield Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Cornell Falls: 5.4 mi
- Otter Falls: 6.6 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 7.0 mi
- Black Chasm Falls: 11.8 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 11.9 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 2.1 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 6.9 mi
- New York State Forest Preserve Centennial: 7.4 mi
- Burroughs Monument: 7.8 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 8.3 mi
- Giant Ledge: 5.3 mi
- Samuels Point: 5.8 mi
- Cornell Crack: 5.9 mi
- Devils Tombstone: 7.4 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 8.7 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 10.1 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 10.3 mi
- Mountain Top Historical Society: 13.6 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 15.2 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 16.5 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 0.5 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 6.3 mi
- Winnisook: 7.2 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 9.1 mi
- The Great Knot: 13.7 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 9.0 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 16.6 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 18.3 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 19.4 mi
- West Landing: 19.7 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 18.5 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 19.9 mi
- The Walled Garden: 20.0 mi
- The Upper Garden: 20.0 mi
- Blithewood Garden: 20.5 mi
- Rail Explorers: 0.0 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 2.4 mi
- Pratt Rock: 16.9 mi
- The Old Game Farm: 18.9 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 19.9 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 7.1 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 9.7 mi
- Bear Wallow: 10.7 mi
- Bear Wallow: 10.8 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 10.9 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 19.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Empire State Railway Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | SW 215° | 1,266 m | 6.9 mi |
| Hunter Mountain | NNE 31° | 1,228.34 m | 7.8 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | N 9° | 1,186 m | 6.1 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | SSW 204° | 1,174 m | 6.0 mi |
| Plateau Mountain | ENE 60° | 1,168.91 m | 7.9 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | ENE 67° | 1,160 m | 8.8 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | SSW 202° | 1,152.75 m | 5.4 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | NNE 30° | 1,140 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 95000474OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Phoenicia Railroad Station, reference 95000474, listed 04/20/95.
OpenStreetMap element way/200310805
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