Editing Lake Champlain (section)

====Railroad====
Four significant railroad crossings were built over the lake. As of 2021, only one remains.
*The "floating" rail trestle from [[Larabees Point, Vermont]], to [[Ticonderoga, New York]], was operated by the Addison Branch of the [[Rutland Railroad]]. It was abandoned in 1918, due to a number of accidents which resulted in locomotives and rail cars falling into the lake.<ref name="Hill1976"/>{{rp|257}}
*The Island Line [[Causeway]], a marble tailings and granite rock landfill causeway that stretched from [[Colchester, Vermont|Colchester]] (on the mainland) {{cvt|3|mi|km|spell=in}} north and west to [[South Hero, Vermont]]. Two breaks in the causeway were spanned by a fixed iron [[Trestle bridge|trestle]] and a [[swing bridge]] that could be opened to allow boats to pass. The Rutland Railroad (later [[Rutland Railway]]) operated trains over this causeway from 1901 to 1961, with the last passenger train operating in 1953. The railroad was officially abandoned in 1963, with tracks and trestles removed over the course of the ten years that followed. The marble tailings and granite rock causeway still remains, as does the fixed iron trestle that bridges the lesser of the two gaps. The swing bridge over the navigation channel was removed in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Island Line Rail Trail History |url=https://www.traillink.com/trail-history/island-line-rail-trail/ |website=TrailLink |publisher=Rails-to-Trails Conservancy |access-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303023327/https://www.traillink.com/trail-history/island-line-rail-trail/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
[[File:Swanton-Alburgh VT Trestle.JPG|thumb|The Swanton-Alburgh trestle spans Lake Champlain between the two Vermont towns: a distance of about {{cvt|0.8|mi}}.]]

:Now called Colchester Park, the main {{convert|3|mi|0|adj=on}} causeway has been adapted and preserved as a recreation area for cyclists, runners and anglers. Two smaller marble tailings and granite rock landfill causeways were also erected as part of this line that connected [[Grand Isle, Vermont|Grand Isle]] to [[North Hero, Vermont|North Hero]], and spanned from North Hero to [[Alburgh, Vermont|Alburgh]].<ref name="Hill1976"/>{{rp|257}}<ref>
{{cite map |publisher=National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration |title=Lake Champlain New York – Vermont: Cumberland Head to Four Brothers Island |year=1992 |scale=1:40,000 |edition=23rd |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>

*The [[Alburgh, Vermont]] – [[Rouses Point, New York]], rail trestle. From sometime in the late 19th century until 1964, this wooden trestle carried two railroads (the Rutland Railroad and the [[Central Vermont Railroad]]) over the lake just south of the US 2 vehicular bridge. The iron swing bridge at the center (over the navigation channel) has been removed. Most of the wooden pilings remain, greatly deteriorated, and can be seen looking south from the US 2 bridge. Part of the trestle on the Rouses Point side has been converted for use as an access pier associated with the local marina.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
*The [[Swanton (town), Vermont|Swanton]] – [[Alburgh, Vermont]] rail trestle. Built in the same manner as at Rouses Point, it crosses the lake just south of Missisquoi Bay and the Canada–U.S. border, within yards south of the Vermont Route 78 bridge. It is still in use by the [[New England Central Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Vermont Agency of Transportation |year=2006 |title=State Rail & Policy Plan, 2006 |url=http://rail.vermont.gov/sites/railroads/files/images/projects/br107/Vermont%20State%20Rail%20and%20Policy%20Plan.pdf |page=20 |access-date=July 15, 2013 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221528/http://rail.vermont.gov/sites/railroads/files/images/projects/br107/Vermont%20State%20Rail%20and%20Policy%20Plan.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>