Then it traces a jagged path through umpteen neighborhoods, cutting through creeks and train stations, warehouses and parks, across the football field at the Franklin K. Lane schools and between the headstones at Evergreens Cemetery, causing daily confusion and complications for the thousands of New Yorkers who live and work by its side.
In 1886, plans were made for train tracks along the creek.
A state Democratic convention was interrupted by Union soldiers sent by Governor Morton (a Republican), and after the convention soldiers searched trains departing with various Democratic convention delegates, causing the Democrats to throw their personal weapons into Pogue's Run as the train passed by the creek.
Known as Lake Clear Road, NY 186 heads east-northeastward, crossing a pair of train tracks and later a creek.
On the other hand, since I've been walking the suburbs I've come across all kinds of grassroots projects – volunteers regenerating creeks, restoring buildings and trains, setting up community gardens and local festivals and literacy projects, doing street art, working with refugees and asylum seekers – that my sense of optimism returns.
Alley Pond Park, which preserves wetlands along its creek, boasts native tulip trees that are centuries old; the train station has a weeping beech that probably dates from the 1880s; and the curving streets of Douglas Manor are overarched with high boughs.
A freight train derailed and overturned early on Saturday, when a creek broke its banks and washed away the track.
A train jumped off the line near a bridge over a dry creek 18 feet beneath and four wagons ran down into the bed of the creek.
(The mascot was adopted shortly after a hippopotamus escaped from a circus train in 1915 and took up temporary residence in a local creek).
It was a 30-minute drive from the train stop to the village, much of it over a dry creek bed of rounded stones that jostled the truck and scraped its undercarriage.
The dirt road we were on ran through the barbed-wire fence and continued past the pieces of recycled train-track welded into a vehicle barrier, over a dry creek bed, and on into Mexico.
