The West Side Cowboys and the railway cars that killed 436 people before 1906

Feb 27, 2017 |

West Side Cowboy on Death Avenue, via Kalmbach Publishing Co. The now-defunct elevated train lines of Manhattan are well known today thanks to their reincarnation as the High Line. But before this raised structure was put in place, the west side was home to a deadly train system appropriately referred to by locals as “The Butcher.” […more]

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