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In 2013, some local residents obtained a lease from the MTA to use a part of the abandoned right-of-way as a community garden known as the Smiling Hogshead Ranch. [3] [12] [17] The garden was first conceived in 2011 as a guerrilla garden on the Degnon Terminal tracks, which split from the Montauk Cutoff. [18] As of 2024, it is still operative.
Railroads have been abandoned in the United States due to historical and economic factors. In the 19th century, the growing industrial regions in the Northeast, the agrarian regions in the South and Midwest, and the expansion of the country westward to the Pacific Ocean all contributed to the explosive growth of railroad companies and their rights-of-way across the entire country.
The U.S. entrance is south of Porter and Vermont streets near Rosa Parks Boulevard. The Canadian entrance is south of Wyandotte Street West between Cameron and Wellington Avenues. It was built by the Detroit River Tunnel Company for the Canada Southern Railway, leased by the Michigan Central Railroad and owned by the New York Central Railroad.
Jefferson Tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel in Jefferson County. [9] Laney Tunnel, an active rail tunnel on the ATN Railway near Glencoe. Completed in 1851 and reinforced in 2010. [10] Oak Mountain Tunnel a rail tunnel on an active Norfolk Southern rail line. In Shelby County. [11]
The Portland and Southwestern Railroad Tunnel, also known as the Nehalem Divide Railroad Tunnel, is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Scappoose, Oregon, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was logging. Unusually for a ...
As far as is known, the CR&NW was the only railway in Alaska to employ wigwags at railroad crossings. [10] The good ore in the mines ran out and the last train ran on 11 Nov. 1938. [11] In 1941, the Kennecott Corporation donated the railroad right-of-way to the United States "for use as a public highway". In 1953 conversion was started.
Georgia Florida and Alabama Railroad - in 1898 took over the abandoned route of the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Railroad which had attempted to build between Bainbridge and Columbus, for a line from the latter place to the Gulf port of Carrabelle, Florida. The GFA failed to reach Columbus in its turn.
San Francisco and Oakland Railroad; San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad; San Pedro via Dominguez Line; San Pedro via Gardena Line; Santa Ana Line; Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Line; Santa Ana–Orange Line; Santa Monica Air Line; Sawtelle Line; Schuylkill Branch; Shorb Line; Sierra Madre Line; Sierra Vista Line; Silverton, Gladstone and ...