Rails Under the Mighty Hudson tells a story that begins in the
final years of the nineteenth century and reaches fulfillment in
the first decade of the twentieth: namely, the building of rail
tunnels under the Hudson River linking New Jersey and New York.
These tunnels remain in service today-although one is temporarily
out of service since its Manhattan terminal was under the World
Trade Center-and are the only rail crossings of the Hudson in the
metropolitan area.Two of the tunnels were built by the Hudson and
Manhattan Railroad, a company headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, a man
who later served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and even mounted
a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination at one point.
McAdoo's H&M remains in service today as the PATH System of the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.The other tunnel was
opened in 1910 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, led to the magnificent
Penn Station on Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street, and remains in daily
service today for both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. The author
has updated this new edition with additional photographs, a
concluding chapter on recent developments, and a Preface that
recounts the last trains of September to the World Trade Center
Terminal.
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