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Identifier: pennsylvaniarail00mill (find matches)
Title: Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels and terminals in New York City /
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mills, William Wirt, 1867-
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad Railroad tunnels Railroad terminals
Publisher: New York : Moses King
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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POWER HOUSE, Long Island City, 200x500 ft. with coal tower 170 ft. high; 145,500kilowatt generating units, 32 tubular boilers; George Gibbs, chief engineer electric traction.LONG ISLAND CITY, emergence of tunnels and connection with Long Island RR. system.
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HELL GATE BRIDGE, four tracks; massive granite abutments surrounded by concrete towers;220 fc. high; steel arch span, 1,000 ft. long; 135 ft. above water; with viaduct approaches,longest and heaviest bridge in the world; 80,000 tons. Gustav Lindenthal, Cons. Eng. & Arch. F)udson Cimnel System IT WAS as long ago as 1871 that thetunnelling of the Hudson River was pro-posed by D. C. Haskin, who conceivedthe idea that iron cylinders, fitted with air-locks, placed horizontally below water-level,could be used with compressed air in tunnelconstruction. In November, 18 74, he began,from a shaft sunk in Jersey City, to constructthe first tunnel through the silt that formsthe bottom of the Hudson River, and hadreached a point about 1,200 feet from theshore, when, on July 21, 1880, a blow-outcaused the loss of 20 1 ves and stopped the work. In 1888 the project was revived, but thework stopped in 1892, with 3,000 feet ofbrick-lined tunnel completed. In 1902 Wm.G. McAdoo organized the New York

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  • booksubject:Pennsylvania_Railroad
  • booksubject:Railroad_tunnels
  • booksubject:Railroad_terminals
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Moses_King
  • bookcontributor:Columbia_University_Libraries
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