Park
The Rail Park
1234 Noble Street, 1150 Callowhill St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, USA
Elevated former rail viaduct turned art-filled walking path above the streets of Callowhill.
This guide to The Rail Park in Philadelphia opens with Dawn Chorus, a flock of cast aluminum birds perched motionless above the path, and traces the freight line beneath them back to the Reading Railroad's coal trains, silent since 1984 and left to grow wild for two decades. It follows painters John Struble and Sarah McEneaney, who founded Friends of the Rail Park in 2004 and spent years pitching an elevated garden walk to skeptical funders and worried Chinatown neighbors. The first quarter mile finally opened in June of 2018, and artists moved in fast.
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