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Paper snake crossing the leftward rail divide
The Jay Street Connecting Railroad operated as Brooklyn's smallest waterfront railway between about 1900 and 1958. The role of this small railroad was to move freight cars from carfloats on the East River to the industrial buildings and warehouses that would load and unload them. You can still see a few cases in which long-unused tracks are going into buildings. Thus, the JSCR filled about the same role as the old "High Line" on Manhattan's West Side. [SOURCE]
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Paper snake crossing the leftward rail divide
The Jay Street Connecting Railroad operated as Brooklyn's smallest waterfront railway between about 1900 and 1958. The role of this small railroad was to move freight cars from carfloats on the East River to the industrial buildings and warehouses that would load and unload them. You can still see a few cases in which long-unused tracks are going into buildings. Thus, the JSCR filled about the same role as the old "High Line" on Manhattan's West Side. [SOURCE]