AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

INSTITUTED 1852


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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 &