Which Eccentric Train-Loving Art Patron Will Bring Jeff Koons’s $25-Million Locomotive to the High Line?
Benjamin Sutton at Artinfo muses over Jeff Koon’s seven year quest to bring his ‘Train’ to the high line.

After two false starts and a cross-country journey, the Jeff Koons “Train” is at long last pulling into the station. Seven years ago the artist and Friends of the High Line — the group behind the elevated park in Chelsea — floated the possibility of creating the artist’s enormous full-size replica of a 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive suspended vertically from a crane in a parking lot at 18th Street and Tenth Avenue. Unfortunately, the project was abandoned because it was too large to incorporate into the park’s design. Four years later Michael Govan, then the new director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), tried to bring the Koons train west but the project fell through due to lack of funding. Maybe the third time will be the charm: Friends of the High Line announced today that one of the possible designs for the park’s 30th Street spur is to commission Koons’s “Train” and install it suspended over the elevated park. If it succeeds, Koons will join an impressive list of artists, including John Baldessari and Sarah Sze, that have contributed to the High Line Art program of public works.

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