Travis Terry lives in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in Queens about 5 minutes from an abandoned rail line. He describes the tracks, last used in 1962, as a "blight" plagued by illegal dumping. "It's ...
Those Stones Have a Name: Ballast The crushed stone found under many railroad tracks is called ballast. It forms the bed that ...
A years-long battle is intensifying over the future of an old rail line in Queens that was abandoned after a fire over 50 years ago. Closed since the 1960s, the tracks once served as the Long Island ...