[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

New Yorkers always loved railroads!

[Olog-hai]

NYC was one of the first cities to ban steam locomotives, actually. No steam was permitted south of 42^nd Street, eventually, except for the elevated railroads prior to electrification, that is (one photo is linked at Post 28 on this thread of the Third Avenue Line during steam days.) If that ban never existed, it might have been the case that Grand Central Terminal would have ended up built down by the Battery.