Railroad Tracks by Matt Bango on Flickr.
Freight Train, Carkeek Park, Seattle by acanyc on Flickr.
BNSF train near Seattle. Looks like the scenic sub.
West Highland Line 1984 by Stuart McKenna on Flickr.
A large logo 37 :*curls up in corner happily remembering 37264 from the diesel gala*
This makes my heart race and slow down at the same time and when I see things like this I keep it in my mind for days.
New York City’s Hidden Subway Station.
Deep in the belly of New York’s subway system, a beautiful untouched station resides that has been forgotten for years with only a limited few knowing of its existence. Stunning decoration with tall tiled arches, brass fixtures and skylights run across the entire curve of the station, almost a miniature imitation of Grand Central Station.
It was opened in 1904, with the hope of making it the crowning glory of the New York subway system in elegant architecture and a place for commemorative plaques to honour the work that had resulted in such a successful underground mass transit system. It was to be the original southern terminus of the first ‘Manhattan Main Line’; however the station was closed and boarded up in 1945. The gem of the underground began gathering dust, forgotten by the general public, as passengers were forced off at the Brooklyn Bridge Stop before the train continued on to the terminus to make its turnaround.
The reason for its closure was that newer longer cars were required to match the demand of passengers that passed through the system. But as the stations tracks were severely curved, a dangerous gap between the train doors and the platform was formed making it an unsafe area. This combined with the fact that only about 600 people used it, resulted in its closure with only mythical plans of turning it into a transit museum. But this was never followed through.
