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Pennsylvania Station and cross-town tunnels. It was necessary to
construct 1,000 ft. of stone and crib bulkhead along the bank of the
Passaic River. The plan of the yard was prepared by a committee of
operating, electrical, and engineering officers, consisting of Mr. F. L.
Sheppard, General Superintendent, New Jersey Division, Pennsylvania
Railroad Company; George Gibbs, M. Am. Soc. C. E., Chief Engineer,
Electric Traction and Terminal Station Construction, Pennsylvania Tunnel
and Terminal Railroad Company; Mr. J. A. McCrea, General Superintendent,
Long Island Railroad Company; Mr. C. S. Krick, Superintendent,
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company; Mr. A. M. Parker,
then Principal Assistant Engineer, New Jersey Division, Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, now Superintendent, Hudson Division; and approved by
Mr. A. C. Shand, Chief Engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
Chief Engineer, Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal
Railroad Company.

[Illustration: PLATE XVII.--Plan of Harrison Yard]

_Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad._--The two
main tracks ascending through the Harrison Yard continue on an
embankment to a point 500 ft. west of the west abutment of the bridge
over the New York Division tracks, which is the point of beginning of
the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad. From this point the line
extends in a general northeasterly direction, crossing the Hackensack
River, skirting the base of Snake Hill, and thence to the approach cut
to Bergen Hill Tunnels. The embankment varies in height from 25 to 30
ft. above the surface of the meadows.

In this Division the following bridges were necessary:

Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Division, Passenger and Newark
Freight Tracks;

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Morris and Essex
Division;

Newark and Jersey City Turnpike;

Public Service Corporation Right of Way;

Erie Railroad, Newark and Paterson Branch;

Belleville Road, and Jersey City Water Company's Pipe Line;

Greenwood Lake Railroad (Erie Railroad), Arlington Branch;

Hackensack River;

Greenwood Lake Railroad (Erie Railroad), Reconstructed Line;

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Boonton Branch;

Erie Railroad, Passenger Tracks;

Bridge of 11 spans over proposed yard tracks, Erie Railroad;

County Road;

Secaucus Road;

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