After High Line’s Success, Other Cities Look Up

(NYTimes) Phone calls and visitors and, yes, dreams from around the world are pouring into the small offices of the Friends of the High Line on West 20th Street in Manhattan these days.
Detroit is thinking big about an abandoned train station. Jersey City and Philadelphia have defunct railroad beds, and Chicago has old train tracks that don’t look like much now, but maybe they too...
The High Line’s success as an elevated park, its improbable evolution from old trestle into glittering urban amenity, has motivated a whole host of public officials and city planners to consider or revisit efforts to convert relics from their own industrial pasts into potential economic engines. Continued

Image: Abandoned trestle at Safe Harbor, PA, part of the old Atglen & Susquehanna "Low Grade Route" railroad line, abandoned by Norfolk Southern and squandered by local municipalities. It had the potential to be a world class rail trail. (MDRails)