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Gateway Program (Northeast Corridor)
The Gateway Program is an ongoing expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City along the right-of-way between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station. The project is intended to build new rail bridges in the New Jersey Meadowlands, dig a new set of tunnels under Bergen Hill (Hudson Palisades) and the Hudson River, rehabilitate the existing 1910 tunnel, and construct a new terminal annex. The improvements are designed to double train capacity and permit more high-speed rail service along the current right-of-way, whose two-track rail line, used both by Amtrak and NJ Transit Rail Operations (NJT), has reached its full capacity of 24 trains per hour. It was unveiled as the Gateway Project in 2011, one year after the cancellation of the somewhat similar Access to the Region's Core (ARC) project; the need for these renovations only increased after Hurricane Sandy had damaged the North River Tunnels t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Side Yard
The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the subsidiary Long Island Rail Road, the yard sits between West 30th Street, West 33rd Street, 10th Avenue and 12th Avenue. Since the early 2010s, the eastern part of the yard has been covered by the Hudson Yards complex of skyscrapers and other buildings. The yard includes storage tracks, a six-track indoor shop for light maintenance, a 12-car long platform for car cleaning, and lockers and a break room for employees. The yard sits at the north end of the High Line, a former elevated freight railroad converted into a park, and south of the truck marshalling yard used by the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. It also sits just south of the 34th Street–Hudson Yards subway station, which opened in 2015. Before the yard opened in 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning . The storm inflicted nearly US$70 billion in damage (equivalent to $ billion in ), and killed 254 people in eight countries, from the Caribbean to Canada. The eighteenth Tropical cyclone naming, named storm, tenth Atlantic hurricane, hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was a List of Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes, Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba, though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States. Sandy developed from a tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ferries Across The Hudson River To New York City
The following ferries once crossed the North River (Hudson River), North River between New York City and New Jersey. There was no ferry service between 1967 and 1989, when it was restarted by New York Waterway. Row and Sail Horse ferries Team boats served New York City for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes." In 1812, two steam boats designed by Robert Fulton were placed in use in New York, for the Paulus Hook Ferry from the foot of Cortlandt Street, and on the Hoboken Ferry from the foot of Barclay Street. The ''Juliana'', running from Barclay Street, was withdrawn from service, as announced, in favor of the "more convenient" horse boat. It is almost certain, however, that this retrograde step was taken because of the monopoly enjoyed by Mssrs. Fulton and Livingston for the navigation of the waters of New York State by steam. Steam See also *List of ferries across the East River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Station (Newark)
Newark Penn Station is an intermodal passenger station in Newark, New Jersey. One of the New York metropolitan area's major transportation hubs, Newark Penn Station is served by multiple rail and bus carriers, making it the seventh busiest rail station in the United States, and the fourth busiest in the New York City metropolitan area. Located at Raymond Plaza between Market Street and Raymond Boulevard, the station is served by three NJ Transit commuter rail lines, the Newark Light Rail, the PATH rapid transit system, and all 10 of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services, including the '' Acela''. The station is also Newark's main intercity bus terminal; it is served by carriers Greyhound, Bolt, and Fullington Trailways. Additionally, it is served by 33 local and regional bus lines operated by NJ Transit Bus Operations. History Designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the same team behind the Pennsylvania Railroad's original New York Penn St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dock Bridge
Dock Bridge is a pair of vertical lift bridges carrying Amtrak, NJ Transit, and PATH trains across the Passaic River at Newark, Essex County and Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It is the seventh crossing from the river's mouth at Newark Bay and is upstream from it. Also known as the Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift, it is listed on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. History The bridge was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) for its main line. The west span carries three tracks and opened in 1935 along with the west half of Newark Penn Station. The lift span is over bearings (clear channel ), the longest three-track lift span in the world when built. The east spans opened in 1937 when the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M, later called PATH) shifted its rapid transit trains from the Centre Street Bridge to the newly built station. With the opening of the eastern span, the PRR closed Manhattan Transfer station in the Kearny Meadows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Authority Trans Hudson
The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system in the Gateway Region, northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, New Jersey, Newark, Harrison, New Jersey, Harrison, Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, and Hoboken, New Jersey, Hoboken, as well as Lower Manhattan, Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run around the clock year-round; four routes serving 13 stations operate during the daytime on weekdays, while two routes operate during weekends, late nights, and holidays. It crosses the Hudson River through cast iron tunnels that rest on a bed of silt on the river bottom. It operates as a deep-level subway in Manhattan and the Jersey City/Hoboken riverfront; from Grove Street in Jersey City to Newark, trains run in Cut (earthmoving), open cuts, at grade level, and on Elevated railway, elevated track. In , the system saw rides, or about per weekday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson And Manhattan Railroad
The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system in the northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, Harrison, Jersey City, and Hoboken, as well as Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run around the clock year-round; four routes serving 13 stations operate during the daytime on weekdays, while two routes operate during weekends, late nights, and holidays. It crosses the Hudson River through cast iron tunnels that rest on a bed of silt on the river bottom. It operates as a deep-level subway in Manhattan and the Jersey City/Hoboken riverfront; from Grove Street in Jersey City to Newark, trains run in open cuts, at grade level, and on elevated track. In , the system saw rides, or about per weekday in , making it the fifth-busiest rapid transit system in the United States. The routes of the PATH system were originally operated by the Hudson & Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exchange Place Station (PRR)
The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was the Intermodal passenger transport, intermodal passenger terminal for the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) vast holdings on the North River (Hudson River), Hudson River and Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, New Jersey. By the 1920s the station was called Exchange Place. The rail terminal and its ferry slips were the main New York City station for the railroad until the opening in 1910 of Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963), New York Pennsylvania Station, made possible by the construction of the North River Tunnels. It was one of the busiest stations in the world for much of the 19th century. The terminal was on Paulus Hook, which in 1812 became the landing of the first steam ferry service in the world, and to which rail service began in 1834. Train service to the station ended in November 1961 and demolition of the complex was completed in 1963. Part of the former terminal complex is now the PATH (rail system), PATH system's Exchange Place (PAT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearny Meadows
Kearny may refer to: People *Cresson Kearny (1914–2003), American author and researcher **Kearny fallout meter ** Kearny air pump *Eleanor Kearny Carr (1840–1912), American planter and political hostess, First Lady of North Carolina *Jillian Kearny, a pseudonym of Ron Goulart *Lawrence Kearny (1789–1868), American naval officer and diplomat *Philip Kearny (1815–1862), American major general * Stephen W. Kearny (1794–1848), American brigadier general, Military Governor of New Mexico and California Places * Kearny, Arizona *Kearny, New Jersey *Kearny County, Kansas *Fort Kearny, in Nebraska * Fort Kearny (Washington, D.C.), an American Civil War fort *Fort Phil Kearny, a late 1860s fort along the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming *Kearny Street, in San Francisco, California Other *Kearny Airport (other) *Kearny High School (other) * USS ''Kearny'' (DD-432), US Navy destroyer named for Lawrence Kearny See also * * *Kearney (other) *Carney (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan Transfer Station
The Manhattan Transfer station was a passenger station, passenger interchange station, transfer station in Harrison, New Jersey, east of Newark (New Jersey), Newark, west of New York Penn Station on the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) main line, now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. It operated from 1910 to 1937 and consisted of two car-floor-level platforms, one on each side of the PRR line. It was also served by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. There were no pedestrian entrances or exits to the station, as its sole purpose was for passengers to change trains, or for trains to have their locomotives changed. History Need and operation Until 1910, none of the railroads that crossed New Jersey to reach New York City crossed the North River (Hudson River), Hudson River. Instead, passengers rode to Railroad terminals serving New York City, terminals on the Hudson Waterfront, where they boarded List of ferries across the Hudson River to New York City, ferries. The dominant Pennsylva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal Bridge
The Portal Bridge is a two-track rotating swing-span railroad bridge over the Hackensack River in Kearny and Secaucus, New Jersey, United States. It is on the Northeast Corridor just west of Secaucus Junction and east of the Sawtooth Bridges. Owned and operated by Amtrak and used extensively by NJ Transit, it is the busiest train span in the Western Hemisphere, carrying between 150,000 and 200,000 passengers per day on approximately 450 daily trains (an average of one train every two minutes during the day). Opened in November 1910, the bridge was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in conjunction with service to the newly constructed Pennsylvania Station in New York City. It is long. The average bridge clearance of (depending on the tide) requires it to swing open to allow maritime traffic to pass underneath it. By the 2000s, the Portal Bridge train speeds were limited to . Replacement of the bridge is the first phase of the Gateway Project. After initially refusing to pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Station (1910)
Pennsylvania Station or Penn Station may refer to: Current train stations * Baltimore Penn Station * New York Penn Station ** Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963), the predecessor to the present New York City station * Newark Penn Station Train stations formerly called Pennsylvania Station * 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, formerly Pennsylvania Station–30th Street * Exchange Place station (Pennsylvania Railroad), Jersey City * Harrisburg Transportation Center, formerly Pennsylvania Station, Harrisburg * Union Station (Pittsburgh), or Pennsylvania Station * Wilmington station (Delaware), formerly Pennsylvania Station 1907–2011 * Cleveland Union Depot, later known as Pennsylvania Station * Pennsylvania Station (Cincinnati) Subway stations * 34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line), a New York City Subway station () * 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line), a New York City Subway station () Other uses * Penn Station (restaurant), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
