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Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910
The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153

Author: E. B. Temple

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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

INSTITUTED 1852

TRANSACTIONS

Paper No. 1153

THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

MEADOWS DIVISION AND HARRISON TRANSFER
YARD.[A]

BY E. B. TEMPLE, M. AM. SOC. C. E.

The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad diverges from
the New York Division in the Town of Harrison, N. J., and, ascending on
a 0.5% grade, crosses over the tracks of the New York Division and the
main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Thence it
continues, with light undulating grades, across the Hackensack Meadows
to a point just east of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey and the New
York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, where it descends to the tunnels
under Bergen Hill and the North River. (Plate XVI.)

[Illustration: PLATE XVI.--Plan and Profile of the Pennsylvania Tunnel &
Terminal R. R., from Harrison, N. J., to the Hudson River]

That portion of the line lying west of the portals of the Bergen Hill
Tunnels has been divided into two sections: First, the most westerly,
known as the Harrison Transfer Station and Yard (Plate XVII), which is
located on the southern side of the New York Division, Pennsylvania
Railroad, and extends from the connection with the New York Division
tracks at grade up to the point of crossing the same, where the
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad has its beginning; second, the
Meadows Division of the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad, which
is a double-track ra