Rail Park Coverage

Rail Park opening delayed until spring 2018

Center City District announced Tuesday that the first phase of the quarter-mile-long, elevated park will not open in February as expected. The opening date has been pushed back to spring 2018.

New video shows Rail Park’s finish line is in sight

More than a year after breaking ground, a new video shows all the progress that’s been made at the Rail Park in Callowhill.

The Rail Park just got spruced up with 1,100 new trees, plants

Volunteers just made the future Rail Park a whole lot greener by planting more than 1,000 trees and shrubs along the former rail line.

Mapping Callowhill’s development boom

Apartments, retail, and parks are on the way for the small neighborhood just north of Philly’s Center City.

Rail Park hits construction milestone with first concrete pour

The future Rail Park just hit a major construction milestone this week when crews made the first concrete pour along the quarter-mile trail.

Here’s what Philly’s Rail Park looks like from above

Drone footage shows the highly-anticipated first phase of the Rail Park coming along quite nicely.

Abandoned diner car to become Rail Park’s welcome center

The 1920s diner car will use funds raised from a crowd-sourcing campaign called Cities Project to become the official welcome center for the Rail Park.

Demolition work is nearly finished at the Rail Park

Construction is on track and demolition is about 80 percent complete on the first phase of the Rail Park, according to a recent update.

See the winning Rail Park Tunnel designs for the Better Philadelphia Challenge

What if one of these transformations actually came true?

Major Rail Park construction now underway

The project is still short $700,000, but construction crews have started major work on the first phase of the Rail Park.

Rail Park officially breaks ground on 1st phase

City officials wasted no time in breaking ground on the quarter-mile-long phase of the future Rail Park yesterday. But Center City District still needs to raise $800K in order to pay construction crews.

Check out this architect’s radical idea for the Rail Park

Now that the first phase of the Rail Park is finally a go, it made us wonder: What’s in store for the rest of the park? Alex Bruce has had one interesting idea simmering since his thesis year.

Rail Park to begin construction by end of year with $3.5M state grant

Center City District, which is managing the project’s construction, was awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program today. It was the final push they needed to begin work on the $9.6 million project.

Here’s the story behind those “Have You Seen This Park?” signs around Philly

The bright signs are part of a bigger campaign to raise awareness about the Rail Park, the abandoned rail line that stretches three miles through 10 Philly neighborhoods and across 50 city blocks.

Check out this awesome aerial photo of the Reading Viaduct Rail Line

A local photographer recently had the opportunity to ride a Hendricks Gin blimp the other day, and captured this epic aerial photo of the Reading Viaduct Rail, making us all the more pumped for the elevated park plans.

Will the Reading Viaduct Rail Park Ever Get Built?

The short answer: Yes. The long answer: Yes, but it depends on a certain stakeholder that appears to owe thousands of dollars to the city.

Viaduct Rail Park Project May Break Ground This Spring