By Della Hasselle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Freight train-inspired artwork may soon roll along the High Line.
A proposal by development company TF Cornerstone would put a new sculpture designed to look like a speeding train on a now-empty wall on southern Gansevoort Street, Curbed reported.
The sculpture, based on a 1953 photograph by Jim Shaughnessy, would be a throwback to the time when freight trains ran on the line above Manhattan streets.
The sculpture has a 3-D design, and would use 30-ft. panels, copper, aluminum, and steel, according to the plan.
The photograph is one of many recently published in Shaughessy's book "The Call of Trains," all inspired by the movement of trains on the High Line. In all, Shaughessy has taken 60,000 photographs since the 1940's.
This design is the latest plan to put artwork in the area surrounding the popular park. Recently, installation "Space Available" by artist Kim Beck featured three sculptures resembling empty advertising boards.
The metal framework sculptures were meant to "emulate the abounding indicators of the economic recession, such as empty storefronts and 'For Sale' signs," a description on the High Line website explained.
