This print offers three views of a transportation system in flux. By the mid-1930s, elevated train lines had dominated New York City’s skyline for over 60 years, blocking out the sun in working-class neighborhoods. By the time Blanche Grambs made this focused study of the elegant, 19th-century ornament on a train platform, “el” lines in the New York City borough of Manhattan were being demolished in favor of an expanded underground subway system. Those same swirls of wrought iron also appear in Margaret Lowengrund’s bird’s-eye view of commuters and passers-by. Taking a different approach, Claire Mahl Moore presented a titanic hand emerging from the city to grasp the elevated train.