The two above photos depict Death Avenue. The below photos show the High Line Railroad being built for the first time ever in 1929.
And it was fine as long as trucking didn't take away a large portion of the freight railroad business. The southern section of the High Line Railroad for freight trains was demolished in 1960. And carrying frozen turkeys, the rest of the High Line Railroad for freight trains was closed in 1980. Normally, that would be the end of the story. Just an abandoned railroad high above 10th Avenue collecting dust and functioning as a metalic eye sore for everybody in Manhatten. Now there are big plans for the old High Line Railroad no longer used for freight trains. It's now called High Line Public Park and it's for pedestrians. Nature is reclaiming modern railroad transit.
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