Rails Under the Mighty Hudson

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher: Hudson Valley Heritage
ISBN: 9780823221905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
The author has updated his 1975 book (Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont). With cheerful enthusiasm, he recounts both engineering and socio-political events connected with the building of railways under the Hudson River. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Rails Under the Mighty Hudson

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780828902571
Category : Railroad tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description

Rails Under the Mighty Hudson

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823221899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
Rails Under the Mighty Hudson tells a story that begins in the final years of the nineteenth century and reaches fulfillment in the first decade of the twentieth: namely, the building of rail tunnels under the Hudson River linking New Jersey and New York. These tunnels remain in service today-although one is temporarily out of service since its Manhattan terminal was under the World Trade Center-and are the only rail crossings of the Hudson in the metropolitan area. Two of the tunnels were built by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, a company headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, a man who later served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and even mounted a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination at one point. McAdoo's H&M remains in service today as the PATH System of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The other tunnel was opened in 1910 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, led to the magnificent Penn Station on Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street, and remains in daily service today for both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. The author has updated this new edition with additional photographs, a concluding chapter on recent developments, and a Preface that recounts the last trains of September to the World Trade Center Terminal.

A Century of Subways

Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823222950
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 617

Book Description
The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway. On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains of the newly inaugurated Interborough Rapid Transit System. More than a century later, the subway has expanded greatly, weaving its way into the fabric of New York’s unique and diverse urban life. In A Century of Subways, transit historian Brian J. Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to New York’s storied and historic subway system, from its earliest beginnings and many architectural achievements, to the ways it helped shape today’s modern metropolis. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the twentieth century, Cudahy creates a vivid sense of this extraordinary system and the myriad ways the city was transformed once New Yorkers started riding below the ground.

Iron Rails in the Garden State

Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025335174X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Fascinating stories of New Jersey's rich railroading history

Crossing the Hudson

Author: Donald E. Wolf
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547083
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Donald E. Wolf simultaneously tracks the founding of the towns and villages along the water's edge and the development of technologies such as steam and internal combustion that demanded new ways to cross the river. As a result, innovative engineering was created to provide for these resources.

Metropolitan Railways

Author: William D. Middleton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253341792
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
"Metropolitan Railways" is a large-scale, illustrated volume that deals with the growth and development of urban rail transit systems in North America.

Metropolitan Corridor

Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300034813
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.

In the Blood

Author: Savannah Russe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101211334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Since the feds coerced sleek New York vampire Daphne Urban into spying for the U.S., she's been part of Team Darkwing. Their latest assignment: rescue the kidnapped daughters of the city's elite. The terrorists demand gold-and access to a military secret. So Darkwing goes on the prowl in the depraved, secret vampire underworld. It's a world of passions that Daphne has always shunned, until temptation finds her. And if she wants to save the kidnapped girls, she can't get distracted...

Greater Gotham

Author: Mike Wallace
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199723052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1195

Book Description
In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence -- an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed. Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, a newly consolidated New York grew exponentially. The city exploded into the air, with skyscrapers jostling for prominence, and dove deep into the bedrock where massive underground networks of subways, water pipes, and electrical conduits sprawled beneath the city to serve a surging population of New Yorkers from all walks of life. New York was transformed in these two decades as the world's second-largest city and now its financial capital, thriving and sustained by the city's seemingly unlimited potential. Wallace's new book matches its predecessor in pure page-turning appeal and takes America's greatest city to new heights.