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The Cincinnati Subway is a partially completed rapid transit system beneath the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio.Although the system only grew to a little more than 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, its derelict tunnels and stations make up the largest abandoned subway tunnel system in the United States.
The story of Cincinnati's subway can go back to roughly 1910 when government officials started its planning. Forté says the subway was actually supposed to be part of a larger, 16-mile rapid ...
Brighton Place is an abandoned and unused subway station of the Cincinnati Subway. The station is the last through station before the tracks go above ground along Interstate 75. [1] The station was planned in 1916, but was not completed due to lack of funding. [2] Beyond this station were three more above ground stations. [which?
This curve is regarded to be one of the sharpest curves in subway history. On both sides of the station, there are provisions for expansions, which includes a stub track under Plum Street connecting to the "southbound" track at the curve west of the station, as well as provisions east of the station for an extension towards Downtown and Oakley .
Construction of the Cincinnati Subway began in the early 1900s to upgrade the Cincinnati Streetcar system, however due to political arguments, World War 1 and the Great Depression during the 1920s and 1930s, the construction of the subway system in Cincinnati was indefinitely cancelled, leaving all the stations of the subway to be abandoned.
Linn Street is an abandoned and never used subway station of the Cincinnati Subway. The station was planned in 1916, but lacked funding to complete. The station was planned in 1916, but lacked funding to complete.
Tim Burke wrote his 77-page Cincinnati Southern history – with 11 pages devoted to footnotes – during a temporary assignment for a Cincinnati lawyer named Robert E. Manley. “I was a kid ...
I have been at The Enquirer for 25 years, long enough that stories we covered when I first started are now fodder for a history column.