26th - 30th Streets
![Jeremiah Moss's famous New York Times op-ed,](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/NYTimes_Disney-on-Hudson_August21-2012-1024x918.jpg)
“Then the raw steer carcasses started to roll and the odor of blood and hacked-apart flesh mixed with the other charming aromas. The High Line was making its deliveries . . .
— Patricia Fieldsteel, recalling the 1970s High Line, The Villager, April 2, 2003
![Crowds in the Interim Walkway on the High Line, September 2014. Photo: Annik LaFarge, author of On the High Line](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/LaFarge_Interim-Walkway_September2014-1024x683.jpg)
![Weischsel Beef loading its truck under the High Line, May 2015. Photo: Annik LaFarge, author of On the High Line](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/LaFarge_Weichsel-Beef_May2015-1024x682.jpg)
![Limestone steer's head, once part of the facade of the New York Butchers' Dressed Meat Company on 11th Ave. between 39th & 40th Streets, designed by Horgan & Slattery. Today in Chelsea Waterside Park. Photo: Annik LaFarge, author of On the High Line](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/LaFarge_NYButchers-Dressed-Meat-768x1024.jpg)
![Peter Obletz outside his rail car on 11th Avenue at 30th Street. Photo: courtesy Peter Richards](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Richards_OBLETZ-Peter1_hi-res-copy-2-1024x690.jpg)
![Peter Obletz inside his rail car. Photo: courtesy Peter Richards](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Richards_OBLETZ_Peter2_hi-res-copy-1024x700.jpg)
![Peter Obletz, who won the right to the West Side Rail Line at auction for $10, on the High Line. Photographer unknown](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Obletz10dollarbill.jpg)
![Inside Peter Obletz's rail car. Photo: courtesy Peter Richards](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Richards_OBLETZ_train_inside_hi-res-copy-1024x686.jpg)
![Once a stable used by the New York Lumber Auction Company at 554 W. 28th St., 1939-1941 Photo: Municipal Archives, City of New York](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/544W28-682x1024.jpg)
![Ghost sign for a long-gone lumber company on 22nd Street between 10th & 11th, soon to be covered by new construction, July 2017. Photo: Annik LaFarge, author of On the High Line](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/LaFarge_Lumber-ghost-sign_532W22-1024x768.jpg)
![Ghost sign for a long-gone lumber company visible on 22nd Street between 10th & 11th, 1939-1941 Photo: Municipal Archives, City of New York](https://highlinebook.com/wp-content/uploads/ghost-sign_542-546-West-22-Street-678x1024.jpg)