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The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago. South of Penn Station, a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) elevated section of the line, abandoned since 1980, has been transformed into an elevated park called the High Line. The south section of the park from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street opened in 2009 and the second section up to 30th Street opened in 2011, while the final section to 34th Street opened in 2014.
The West Side Line in Midtown Manhattan, seen in 2013. This opening was permanently covered by residential construction later that year.
Hudson River R.R. St. John's Depot c. 1890
View from under Henry Hudson Parkway toward maintenance gate to tracks on 82nd Street in Riverside Park
Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, Bronx end, when the swing is open
Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad was a railroad built in what is today the West Bronx and South Bronx in New York City, United States. It ran from the junction between the West Side Line and the Hudson River Railroad near Spuyten Duyvil Creek, then along the Harlem River to the northwestern shore of the East River in what is today the Port Morris section of the Bronx.
An abandoned section of the Port Morris Branch near Rae Street in Melrose, Bronx
Footpath in St Mary's Park approximates the original surface route of the Port Morris Branch
Trackbed near Southern Boulevard