Last night was brutal. Still, if they hadn't made the errors they'd have found another way to lose. Dodgers were clearly the better team in every area. The silver lining - at least the Yankees laid this egg about a team I don't care about, and not the Mets.
In the long and convoluted history of the Long Island Rail Road there are a lot of train lines that ran and closed decades ago. As a result there are a lot of abandoned tracks in more remote areas (though there are not that many undeveloped acres in Nassau County). It is quite unusual, however, to see random railroad tracks in a busy shopping area. These tracks in Garden City, next to a BJ's and some medical buildings, are a remnant of the old Garden City-Mitchel Field Secondary, an offshoot of the LIRR's main line. This was discontinued as a passenger line in 1939 but remained in sporadic use for freight rail into the 1980s. Most of those tracks are long gone, but these have somehow avoided removal in the last few decades, which have seen a big construction boom. Cool little random remnant of Long Island's railroad history.
Those tracks are a cool piece of history. Your wallet card posts do a great job of reminding us that there's plenty of history around us... if we take the time to look closely.
ReplyDeleteThat is very cool. They don't seem to be in the way, for the moment, so hopefully they'll be allowed to remain in place for a while longer.
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