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Re: Boost in Ridership Leaves New York’s Penn Station Platforms Packed |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Mar 25 22:54:46 2017, in response to Re: Boost in Ridership Leaves New York’s Penn Station Platforms Packed, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Mar 25 22:46:05 2017. It was due to the law that they weren't permitted to do it. Still and all, there were several plans for rail bridges across the Hudson over the years, including one from Hoboken that the PRR was supposed to share with the other railroads (this was supposed to be in spite of the law in question). Also, there was this interesting idea dating from 1893, which would have joined the CNJ/B&O/RDG with the LIRR's Atlantic Avenue line and gotten around the law by not actually being in Manhattan per se.Before the H&M, the only rail crossing over the Hudson was the Poughkeepsie Bridge, and all of the trains running from Washington DC to Boston used that before the PRR/LIRR tunnels and Hell Gate crossing. Even the Delaware River had (and has) more rail crossings than the Hudson, in its lower tidal sections. |
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