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Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel |
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Posted by WillD on Mon Aug 17 22:55:37 2015, in response to Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Aug 17 16:12:07 2015. No there wouldn't have been. The PRR financed the studies of the bridges and gathered the capital required to construct a Union Station on Manhattan's west side. However, their franchise required the participation of the other railroads terminating on the west shore of the Hudson as they'd be required by the franchise to accommodate those trains. The CNJ, LV, and Erie in particular objected to paying in to the PRR's bridge plans. The PRR wasn't about to go it alone on a bridge which they'd be required to provide to railroads who chose not provide capital funding.So stop wringing your hands over NYC's steam ban. It wasn't a factor when Cassatt studied the bridge proposal in the late 1890s, and what killed the project was the stinginess of the also-ran railroads who lacked the vision to pay into the PRR's Union Station proposal. |
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