john cabrera

Abandoned Subway Stations Around the World (via marianney: adrifting)

This gives me the best kind of chills.

Bringing together a small collection of them here is not meant to suggest that they necessarily represent a great loss to their local transit networks–in many cases, they were redundant or underused facilities. But, vital or not, they remain interesting artifacts of how our transit networks evolve and abide.

One notable exception is Rochester’s subway system, which was shut down entirely in the 1950s. It was a full and functional small city network and might be sorely missed at some future date–if it isn’t already. Another is Cincinnati’s, which was nearly completed in the 20s and would have been a great asset to the city.