Rush hour on a sleepy fall Sunday morning at Cochecton, N.Y.
Freight trains still run through this sleepy village, supplying parts and transporting finished cars from an assembly plant in upstate New York.
Emotions run high surrounding the conrtoversial Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River designation of the river basin. The "National Park Service Get Out" sign stems from what is perceived as land use meddling by the federal Department of the Interior.
Much of the river is regulated by the U.S. Park Service.
The town gets its name from the most narrow part of the river, bank to bank, and the deepest.
The site of Fort Delaware, an eighteenth century stockaded settlement, remains a local tourist attraction.
The Roebling Bridge, a National Historic Landmark served as a working model for the Brooklyn Bridge. It was origionally built as an aqueduct to ferry coal barges across the river from Lackawaxen, Pa. to Minisink Ford, N.Y. This solved the problem of log rafts drifting downriver colliding with the coal barges crossing the river.
The aqueduct now carries vehicular traffic and is the oldest wire suspension bridge in America.
