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The Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad, incorporated on February 13, 1902, was to oversee construction of the North River Tunnels. The PNJ&NY would also be in charge of the Meadows Division, which would handle the construction of the North River Tunnel approaches on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. [7]
North River Tunnels: 1910: 1,900 m (6,100 ft) part of New York Tunnel Extension Amtrak and New Jersey Transit (Northeast Corridor) Lincoln Tunnel: north tube: 1945 center tube: 1937 south tube: 1957: south tube: 2,440 m (8,006 ft) center tube: 2,504 m (8,216 ft) north tube: 2,281 m (7,482 ft) 6 lanes of NY 495 (NY side); Route 495 (NJ side)
New York Tunnel Extension, 1912. The right-of-way was originally developed by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) [22] in conjunction with the 1910 opening of New York's Pennsylvania Station, which required the construction of the Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River, as well as the North River Tunnels under the Hudson Palisades and Hudson River.
The $6.88 billion grant for the Gateway project includes constructing a new tunnel beneath the Hudson River parallel to the decaying North River tunnel, which is more than a century old and ...
The project includes building a new tunnel under the Hudson between North Jersey and Manhattan to boost service for NJ Transit and Amtrak riders. ... the $16.1 billion Hudson River tunnels ...
The project will include a new double-track tunnel between the Bergen Palisades in New Jersey and Manhattan as well as the rehabilitation of the North River Tunnel that was damaged by Superstorm ...
The North River Tunnels carried PRR trains under the Hudson; for some years PRR electric engines also pulled Lehigh Valley Railroad or Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains to New York. The East River Tunnels carried LIRR and PRR trains to the Sunnyside Yard in Queens.
The North River portion of the Hudson River highlighted in red between North Jersey and Manhattan Island The river seen from atop The Palisades in New Jersey. North River (Dutch: Noort Rivier) is an alternative name for the southernmost portion of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern New Jersey in the United States.