![]() The entrance to the Rochester tunnels is wide openīeside a main street in downtown Rochester. But, there it was behind a fence right behind the Rundell Memorial Library and right before the freeway interchange, a clearly visible portion of the Court Street station revealed itself down a hillside, its siren call unmistakable. After walking around the city extensively the night before, it seemed hard to believe there would be a whole subway system right underneath our feet that no one who didn't care to know such things would ever know about. Ninj and I elected to enter the portion of the system accessible from South Street, right downtown. (With one exception the track area underneath the Gannet newspaper plant near City Hall was still used for paper deliveries up until as recently as 1996.) The subway was closed, and what remained of the tunnel system was either filled in due to crumbling infrastructure, or left abandoned. Ultimately, the subway's inability to serve the outlying suburbs (due to the city's inability to justify the expenditure) led to its failure. Open from 1927-1957, the Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway operated track for both commuter subway trains and an interurban transit junction underneath downtown Rochester. Rochester is the smallest city to have built (for reasons that remain somewhat unclear to me) and subsequently abandoned a subway system. With the aid of a handful of internet printouts and repeated warnings that "I hear a lot of people live down there.", Ninj and I set off in search of the ruins of the Rochester, NY subway system. The Beautiful Abandoned Subway of Rochester, New York Home Zine Forums Journal Search Contact Book ![]()
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