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"The train clanked forward at a top speed of 10 miles an hour, but even so it rocked on the antique, uneven tracks like a ship at sea. The grass and weeds sprouting between the ties might captivate a botanist, but John Cossman, the engineer, complained that when they get high enough, they make the wheels on his twin 130-ton engines spin as if they were rolling 'through soup.' This 10-mile section of the Long Island Rail Road's freight line, from Fresh Pond, Queens, to Bushwick, Brooklyn, is a piece of the aging freight tracks that still thread through large sections of New York City and Long Island, mostly forgotten but hardly unimportant..." From " TAKING STEPS TO REVIVE REGION'S RAIL FREIGHT" by Matthew L. Wald Copyright Saturday Nov 27, 1993 The New York Times Company.Bushwick Branch Beers:
Old Dutch, Schaefer, Piels, Liebman Rheingold, Trommer's White Label |
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Composite Bushwick Branch c.1928+ west to east |
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