TRAILER: Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

Cincinnatis Abandoned Subway discusses the creation of the subway, why it failed, and how the unfinished rapid transit loop impacts the present-day metropolis.

The hour-long documentary includes commentary from local historians and city engineers, vivid footage of the tunnels, as well as a collection of original construction photographs from the 1920s.

www.thecincinnatisubway.com
www.facebook.com/cincinnatisubway

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cincinnati subway
• cincinnati
• abandoned subway
• cincinnati's abandoned subway
• time bonus
• paige malott
• leland schuler
• cincinnati museum center
• rapid transit
• Ohio
• subway DVD
• trains
• transit
• documentary
• local history
• 1920s
• Great Depression

[tomservo56954]

They never mentioned THIS on "WKRP"...

[meship31]

Now were going to have a 14 million dollar plus two mile long trolly train to no where. Yea!

[randomforum]

Sad... same happened here in Göteborg, Sweden. Lots of tramways were removed, because people didn't use it... 40 years later (or even more) the city is screaming for the tramway... people are just stupid and thinks just as far as their nose go...

[CincinnatiKid10100]

glad to see cincinnati cynicism is still in full swing. 1. Downtown is opening businesses and bars all over with plans to draw tourism. 2. I think todays technology can handle mosquitos 3. I'm simply entertaining an Idea to help the city. Your negative outlooks on this city's potential are pretty disappointing.

[tryithere]

@CincinnatiKid10100 Gee, I've never seen water before.

[America100000able]

@CincinnatiKid10100

Dumbest idea ever. Cincinnati got rid of those canals because they were no longer needed, and they were breeding grounds for mosquitoes. There is no way they would bring back a waterway that would only breed mosquitoes and disease.

[lil0ze]

@CincinnatiKid10100 There is not and will never be a tourism industry in Cincinnati

[CincinnatiKid10100]

Unfortunately the City built a huge waterline through these tunnels making it extremely difficult to even consider re using them for a train system BUT what if we were to tear out the roads and fill those subways with water re creating the legendary Canal system that once made its way through our fine city? Imagine the draw a beautiful canal would bring to our tourism industry and also the access small delivery ships would have to bring products and wares from the Ohio. Venice,Chi...Cincinnati!

[HJW81253212]

If Cincinnati had finished the line, then jobs wouldn't have left downtown. LOL. What an economic illiterate.

[scarred2112]

While I find the Cincinnati Subway a great piece of "Uncompleted America", I wouldn't exactly call an few only partially built tunnel segments that were never even close to operational "A Subway System".