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[New York City - elevated train on curve above horse-drawn wagon] – Vintage Wall Art

[New York City - elevated train on curve above horse-drawn wagon] — historic photograph
[New York City - elevated train on curve above horse-drawn wagon]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A steam-hauled elevated train rounds a curve high above a horse-drawn wagon, a reminder of how closely Manhattan's street life once ran beneath its iron railways. By 1895 the city's elevated lines, built on cast-iron columns above avenues such as Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth, had carried passengers for decades, and their locomotives filled the streets below with smoke and cinders. The sharp bends were a common feature of these routes, where the tracks had to follow the street grid. Electrification in the years after this photograph was taken would change the character of the lines.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1895]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,000 × 2,283 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125131

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