After several hours of riding my bike along the freight rails in Glendale, Queens, I began looking for
an easy exit from the elevated rail-bed back down to street level. The gravel was getting increasingly
rough and daylight was fading.
I was excited to find this stash of locomotives hidden behind the bend of the only service road
leading away from the tracks. I was doubly curious, as I had never even heard of the
New York and Atlantic Railway....
This is the Toronto Brickworks located in the Don Valley. It started operating back in 1889 and closed only in 1984.
Currently a group called Evergreen is redeveloping the site so that it offers lots of eco-friendly things: a...