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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,
The North River Division. Paper No. 1151

Author: Charles M. Jacobs

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Language: English

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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

INSTITUTED 1852

TRANSACTIONS

Paper No. 1151

THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

THE NORTH RIVER DIVISION.

BY CHARLES M. JACOBS, M. AM. SOC. C. E.

These observations are written with the purpose of outlining briefly, as
far as the writer was concerned, the evolution of the scheme of bringing
the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Long Island Railroad into New York
City, and also, as Chief Engineer of the North River Division of the New
York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to record in a
general way some of the leading features of the work on this division,
which is that portion of the work extending from the east line of Ninth
Avenue, New York City, to the Hackensack Portal on the westerly side of
the Palisades, as an introduction to the papers by the Chief Assistant
Engineer and the Resident Engineers describing in detail the work as
constructed.

It may be stated that, since shortly after the year 1871, when the
Pennsylvania Railroad system was extended to New York Harbor through the
lease of the New Jersey Lines, the officers of that company have been
desirous of reaching New York City by direct rail connection.

The writer's first connection with the tunneling of the North River was
early in 1890, when he was consulted by the late Austin Corbin,
President of the Long Island Railroad Company and the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, as to the feasibility of connecting the Long
Island Railroad with