The existing passenger tracks between the Harrison Transfer Yard and
Summit Avenue, Jersey City, where a new local passenger station will be
constructed, will be used jointly by steam and electric trains.

The embankment for the Harrison Yard was made, under contract dated July
21st, 1906, with Henry Steers, Incorporated, of New York City, of cellar
earth from New York City, and with rock and earth excavated from the
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