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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.
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the world.
Reorganized as Algoma Eastern Railway, subsequently largely abandoned. Maritime Coal Railway and Power Company: northwestern Nova Scotia: 1906–1961: Abandoned. Massawippi Valley Railway: Eastern Townships of Quebec: 1870-1990: Leased by Quebec Central Railway (CPR) 1926–1990, abandoned, tracks removed 1992. Metropolitan Electric Railway ...
Pages in category "Closed railway lines in the United States" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hundreds of landowners along a 41-mile stretch of abandoned Metro-North Railroad track in the Hudson Valley could be in for a major payday. Homeowners in Dutchess and Putnam counties sued the ...
Utah Central Railway Extension - the narrow gauge Utah Central Railway (1890-1897), which was nothing to do with the Utah Central Railroad (1869–1881), was building an extension from Park City eastwards to Moon's Mill 1890, and had laid track before it went bankrupt in 1893 and work was abandoned. Proposed to the Colorado state line, 17.5 ...
Abandoned High Line tracks in 2009 (current phase 3 section at 34th Street) Reconstructed tracks at 20th Street, 2010 The growth of interstate trucking during the 1950s led to a drop in rail traffic throughout the U.S. [ 68 ] St. John's Freight Terminal was abandoned in 1960, [ 73 ] and the southernmost section of the line was demolished in the ...
The track then heads east over mudflats while ascending a grade. There is a wooden trestle over Dos Palmas Wash. The track crosses over the rebuilt Coachella Canal. The canal passes under the track in a concrete siphon. The track crosses the abandoned original channel of the Coachella Canal on a three span steel bridge.