mirrodie wrote:More specifically, while many books noted above are in color, were any specific or more concentrated on the High Line?
Just for the record the New York Central
never referred to its freight line down Manhattan's west side as "the High Line." I've asked former employees who worked there and none of them ever heard that term used.
It was called variously, the 30th Street Branch, the New York Terminal District and, perhaps most common of all, the West Side Line. But never the "High Line."
Calling it the High Line would've made little sense, anyway. The portion of the line from Spuyten Duyvil to about 125th Street was at grade level. Below 125th Street to 72nd Street the line was (and is) in a tunnel under Riverside Park. In the yard at 72nd Street the track was again at grade level, then entered a below grade open cut at W.60th Street leading to a second freight yard at W.33rd Street. There the track ascended to an elevated structure which looped around the yard before heading south to the St. John's Park freight station in Lower Manhattan, a block south of Houston Street. It is the upper portion of this segment of the line, west of Tenth Avenue and north of Gansevoort Street, that is the part that has been preserved as today's "High Line."
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