At 08:44 AM 3/6/06, Randy Brown wrote: >Paul -- you will get many responses. Here's one: > >There were two H&M "Tubes". One ran from about Exchange Place, Jersey >City, to H&M Terminal, close to th World Trade Center site. On the NJ >side, a tunnel branched northward to Hoboken. The Erie station was on >this line, which terminated at the DL&W Hoboken station. The second tube >under the Hudson branched off between Erie and Hoboken, went to >Christopher Street, Manhattan, and thence to 33rd Street, with stations at >9th, 14th, and 23rd Sts. > >H&M was a pioneer. Backed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the very early >1900s, it was PRR's first shot at a rail entrance to Manhattan. It was >intended and designed to carry only passengers, so used a smaller loading >gauge with narrower cars on standard gauge track. It was an early >electrification -- 600V DC 3rd rail. I don't believe the H&M had any connection to the Pennsylvania Railroad back at it's inception. An excellent history of the H&M and of the PRR tunnel to NYC can be found in "Rails Under the Mighty Hudson", by Brian Cudahy. A truly interesting read. Joe K. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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