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Elevated Trains

Posted on 17 October 2015 by Sara Donati aka Rosina Lippi

New York City’s earliest form of rapid transit was the elevated railway, or el.  The first elevated line with passenger service was the cable-powered West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, which opened in 1868 and ran for just a few years.  … Continue reading →

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