Sentences with phrase «abandoned railroad lines»
The Park District is building the multiuse path on an abandoned railroad line that extends nearly three miles along Bloomingdale Avenue.
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Built on an abandoned railroad line, the Katy Trail runs west to Highway 97, passing near Sand Springs» historic downtown.
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The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.
The railroad abandoned the line in 1961 and cleared the way for creation in 1966 of the biking trail.
Projects that it supports include restoration of the Rockaway Beach Line, a long - abandoned Long Island Railroad track that runs to the Rockaway peninsula.
When the team realized it needed a full - scale wind tunnel, he came up with the insanely outside - the - box idea of retrofitting an abandoned railroad tunnel in the Allegheny Mountains for straight - line testing.
During the latter part of the 1960s the Durango - Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was registered as a National Historic Landmark but in 1969 the Denver and Rio Grande Western abandoned the tracks south of Durango isolating the line and leaving the future of the line in question once again.