This abandoned railway is one of the last wild landscapes of New York

This railway has not transported trains to central Quines for 63 years – and that’s why it looks more natural and more beautiful today. Long Island Rail Road’s Rockaway Beach Branch once offered a 30 -minute route from Manhattan to the New York Ocean beaches. On his way he spent three and a half miles from parks, dirty embankments and concrete bridges from Forest Hills to Ozone Park. The line was abandoned in 1962. And so nature followed its own, unruly plans. Forests sprouted. The mark towers collapsed. Coyote colonized the wild points. At Rego Park, a piece of rail was removed and the gravel was removed while the line was rolling with the wind. A small tree sprouted between the stones and turned into a red maple that eventually bent the steel beam into its inflated trunk. One cold day last winter, 17 -year -old Jason Hofmann bent over, caught the frame with his iphone […]
Source: News Beast

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