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The last freight train on Manhattan’s West Side elevated line carried three carloads of frozen turkeys in 1980. Over the next quarter-century, wind and birds seeded a wild landscape across the abandoned tracks; 29 years after that final run, the first section reopened as a park, and the same steel viaduct now carries a 1.45-mile walkway threading between Manhattan’s apartment buildings.
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The last freight train on Manhattan’s West Side elevated line carried three carloads of frozen turkeys in 1980. Over the next quarter-century, wind and birds seeded a wild landscape across the abandoned tracks; 29 years after that final run, the first section reopened as a park, and the same steel viaduct now carries a 1.45-mile walkway threading between Manhattan’s apartment buildings.

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