Why New York's First River Tunnel is Falling Apart (The Story of The Hudson Tunnel)
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Published 2022-06-11
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IT’S HISTORY - Weekly tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.
Chapters:
00:00 The Hudson Tunnel is the first trans-river rail link between Jersey City and Manhattan.
00:40 Why The Hudson River divides New Jersey from New York state.
01:14 Colonel De Witt Clinton conceived the idea to construct a tunnel under the Hudson River.
02:11 Clinton insisted that excavating the Hudson tunnel should be in a compressed air environment
04:08 Construction of the Hudson tunnel began on November 17, 1874, with the sinking of a shaft on Fifteenth Street in Jersey City.
05:39 A Hudson Tunnel blowout on July 21, 1880. A leak developed on top of the tunnel.
06:02 General William Smith joined the Hudson Tunnel project as chief engineer and introduced several improvements.
07:00 The Hudson tunnel's Trevor Park died and finances diminished.
07:46 Technical knowledge and expertise were sought out by British consulting engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker.
09:09 Why English engineer Charles Mattathias Jacobs was invited to assess the practicality and cost of completing the hudson tunnels.
10:14 The north tunnel was holed through on March 11, 1904, and the south tunnel was holed through on September 29, 1905.
10:44 What were the first trains to run through the Hudson River Tunnel?
11:25 The idea for the second set of tunnels was derived from a study of ferry traffic.
12:12 Service on the Downtown Tunnels began.
12:37 The popularity of the automobile skyrocketed. Road traffic was significantly increasing.
13:56 the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company declared bankruptcy
15:00 the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Tunnel was nominated to be a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
16:15 The revival of the Hudson. The tunnels were flooded during Hurricane Sandy, which prompted the creation of The Hudson Tunnel Project.
17:59 Closing: With over 30 years of development and several years of operation, the Hudson Tunnel still stands.
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All Comments (21)
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Most of the pictures of railroad operation do not show the Hudson Tubes, but rather the North River tunnels constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1904 and 1908 and now owned and operated by Amtrak. Unfortunately, they are in only marginally better condition than the Hudson Tubes.
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This truly was an extremely extraordinary piece of engineering, especially in that time.
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I’m sitting here watching in a building built during that same period. It’s all in sad shape now, but still impressive.
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Being from the area I didn't believe it took 30 years to construct a railroad tunnel , life time.
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The failure of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad was not due to automobile competition. The failure was due to the New Jersey government forcing the Railroad to maintain uneconomically low fares.
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Hmmm... You're mish-mashing the H&M tunnels with the Pennsylvania RR Cassat Tunnels of 1910 that go to NY Penn Station. Especially by showing NJT and Amtrak trains entering the PRR portal while describing PATH. Time to hire a Researcher/Proofreader to make your great videos even better!!
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Pretty cool that the day it was certified as a historical landmark is also the very day I entered this world.
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The compessed air technique sounds sketchy AF. Those poor men
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Back to the classics, nice!
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16:32 the damage was allowed to happen to suit a "higher purposes"
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Very interesting until the end!
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Railroad Owners Shaft! Can ya dig it? Sandhogs "Right on"
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Thank you..
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Good stuff
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Great vid as always. But leave me to question. Does a tunnel stand? If it doesn't what does it do, sit?
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Sweet!
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Why is the title card always so loud compared to the rest of the video?
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New sub ! Liked 👍🚀😀❤️
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do the sumner and callahan tunnel in bostom. the sumner is going to close for huge renovations.
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If only Gov. Christie hadn't canceled the ARC tunnel project in 2010, we would have already had another tunnel completed by now. The new project will likely cost twice what the previous one was estimated to be.
