The High Line in 2008
Here are some updates for those of you curious about New York City’s beloved restored elevated train line, The High Line. Newsletter here. And here is a recent shot of […]
Here are some updates for those of you curious about New York City’s beloved restored elevated train line, The High Line. Newsletter here. And here is a recent shot of […]
Big thanks to striderv over at Flickr for posting an amazing set of pictures from his grandfather’s collection. Seems there was an open house at the roundhouse that day (and […]
And so the journey ends. This last leg has no track but it’s quite easy to follow where it went. This whole adventure was a lot of fun, though it […]
The last leg with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson. Glenn Garner of The Green Coalition joined us for half this walk. We started out at Sources and went as far […]
Continuing the journey with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson. We started at rue Douglas -B- Floreani and went to Toupin. Not a real long walk but we did a lot […]
Continuing the journey with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson. Here is a map of this leg. We started at Sources and went east. As far as I know the La […]
Been doing some hikes along the Doney Spur recently with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson, who are rail fans and transportation activists. We started at the east end at Bois […]
some amazing shots from Factotum.
The High Line is probably one of the best known urban reclamation projects in the world and it does have the advantage of cool art/concert projects produced in it’s behalf. […]
Or Land For Sale. Former 2M Ressources glass recycling plant land. Not sure who would want to buy that especially if they know that they will be surrounded by a […]
This reminds me of when I worked on the railroad at Albert Canyon, B.C. in the late 70’s. One winter there was a derailment of about 8 grain cars near […]
Saw this train on the branch line that runs south west of Dead Dog Tunnel last week. There was only about 4 cars on it as it had dropped some […]
(the image that was here was removed as Photobucket claimed it violated their terms of service, if you can believe that! It was no more revealing than what you see […]
From the Gazette 100 years ago article here. “It is years since the city streets have been so thoroughly blocked by snow,” The Gazette said, “and it will take weeks […]