I'm from Chicago and I wish they would have left the rails on the 606 like they did on the high line, on the 606 they completely removed all the rails and while it looks nice, It would have been even nicer if they had left some of the rails in so you could see the history of it. Excellent video!
@ernestpassaro96632 жыл бұрын
Great video the high taxes and idiotic regulations imposed by democrat politicians drove most industries away from the area that’s why all the abandoned tracks !
@qjtvaddict2 жыл бұрын
Why wasn’t that line given to the L?
@qjtvaddict2 жыл бұрын
@@ernestpassaro9663 that’s neoliberal policy that cut taxes to outsource jobs that’s republicans all the way and Clinton
@ernestpassaro96632 жыл бұрын
@Eragor the Kindhearted worked as a brakeman for 2 years and drove a tractor trailer since 1986 so I worked in both industries I know without huge quantities of freight railroads can’t survive that’s why I pointed the finger at politicians with their high taxes and idiotic regulations that drove heavy industries away nabisco was a big customer on the high line they left in 1959
@ThePizzaPoPo2 жыл бұрын
Hey I’m from Chicago also.
@tobygoodguy40322 жыл бұрын
Glad you made the correction. My dad worked as the general superintendent for the GC that converted Bell Labs to Westbeth back in the late '60's. He took me as a young teenager on Saturdays to the job. There was still a lot of Bell paraphasia to rummage through.
@tashameisntcool Жыл бұрын
I remember walking on the high line! It was very overgrown in most parts and it was so cool
@1superloki2 жыл бұрын
Yah You make great videos. Thank you and don't stop.
@qolspony2 жыл бұрын
I thought this highline was older than anything in NYC. But based on this video, it is barely older than the newest elevated line built in Brooklyn. It was a very efficient line and the fact it was allowed to be trancated by tractor trailer traffic, is a sin of itself! And as much as it good to turn it to a park plaza, it would have been better serve as it intended purpose. But that's life!
@qolspony2 жыл бұрын
@Eragor the Kindhearted You make a valid point my brother.
@williamgarcia2102 жыл бұрын
Well done! Very informative!
@mixedhairless2 жыл бұрын
Always informative..👏
@jabgaming2592 Жыл бұрын
imagine if the MTA built a subway on the high line
@MagicMike-rd8mz2 жыл бұрын
Gooodnite Bro. And that was a awesome video of the Old Highliner. And Thank's for the history lesson also Bro. It's awesome park also !!!
@ThumperKJFK2 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@victorrugerio81962 жыл бұрын
WOW!
@Brian_rock_railfan2 жыл бұрын
great video
@wclifton968gameplaystutorials Жыл бұрын
They should've put a single-track tramway on this line with passing loops and a Pedestrian/Bike path over one side of the existing track but at least they didn't demolish the railway line...
@geardo36352 жыл бұрын
Parks are not the only way old rail lines are trying to be brought back, some are actually tried to be brought back as rail lines though the plans keep getting ignored.
@acerkrt2 жыл бұрын
I was up there everyday in the mid 80s . There was a music video made up there back in the 80s by a group called Art Of Noise and the song is called Close to the Edit. The HIGHLINE was a graffiti hall of Fame back then with many famous graffiti writers from the NYC subway era painting pieces up there. It was a scary but magical place with mariquant plants growing wild and prostitution taking place with beds lined up in the tunnels. Very different era
@Thunder_6278 Жыл бұрын
I thought they were going to make a new elevated transit line from the high line. Oh well.
@scottpecorino63202 жыл бұрын
Should have made it a light rail
@lucaslucas29332 жыл бұрын
So correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the building that used to be the original end of the highline destroyed recently?
@assonance90572 жыл бұрын
Love the highline but I wish it wasn’t surrounded by expensive housing :(
@evangouldtransit2 жыл бұрын
1:15 the trains were electric.!? i see third rail shoes on that locomotive but i don't see third rail or catenary
@Urbex_Undergroundexploring22 Жыл бұрын
I got a question for you about Abandoned places in Ny. Send me a Pm