Before any subway tracks were buried beneath Manhattan, the city had a transportation system pieced together from privately run steam- and horse-drawn railroads (ground-level and elevated), ferry routes, continental and regional rail terminuses, and piers.
By the railroad tracks, the ground was sprinkled with the instruments of coping: empty beer bottles, a tattered Bible, a crumpled picture of a young boy.
But the railroad held its ground on steam, maintaining that a ban at 42nd would require a cumbersome switch to horsepower for the 25 million quarts of milk that came into the city every year, as well as for 1,500 commuters each day.
Walked the High Line... a beautiful rural park in NYC created on old above-ground railroad tracks Went to the New Whitney Museum... all American based art, mostly modern Went to the Bronx Zoo Strolled around various parts of Brooklyn There are many more items and I'll write about them as time progresses.
Broken-off railroad ties litter the ground in front of yawning ditches.
The first tiny green shoots arrive as early as the end of March, "quicker than they might otherwise," Mr. Van de Wetering explained, "because they're sitting on railroad tracks, so the ground is warmer and they come faster".
The helicopter hovering above the rails will communicate with the railroad police on the ground, as well as with local authorities, who often are called in to help catch vandals or trespassers that the train's crew has spotted.
Add support to each level by filling in between the back of the railroad ties and the ground with stones.
Maybe that's why Harry Leeds, a 69-year-old retired data processor, has located his extraordinary, in-ground garden railroad in the tiny backyard of his Tarrytown home.
