PATH Lift Bridge
PATH Lift Bridge | |
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| Carries | PATH |
| Crosses | Hackensack River |
| Locale | Connecting Kearny and Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Owner | Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Lift bridge |
| Material | Steel |
| History | |
| Opened | 1900 |
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The PATH Lift is a lift bridge carrying the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rapid transit line across the Hackensack River between Kearny and Jersey City, New Jersey. It is used by PATH trains going to and from Newark.
History
[edit | edit source]The bridge was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1900.[1] It was part of the PRR main line that terminated at Exchange Place in Jersey City. Upon the opening of the PRR North River Tunnels to Manhattan's Penn Station in 1910, the main line traffic was routed on a new alignment to the tunnels, and the Exchange Place line tracks were made available to the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, a rapid transit line to lower Manhattan (later called PATH). Service on a new H&M line between the Manhattan Transfer station in Harrison, New Jersey and lower Manhattan began on October 1, 1911.[2] The service was later extended southward to Newark.
Use of the bridge was shared by the PRR and H&M until PRR closed Exchange Place in 1961. Since that time, it has been used solely by H&M/PATH trains on the Newark–World Trade Center line (known as Newark-Hudson Terminal before 1971).[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
- List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
- List of crossings of the Hackensack River
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. "PRR Chronology, 1900." March 2005 Edition.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-44, "PATH Transit System Bridge"
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- Bridges completed in 1900
- PATH (rail system)
- Bridges over the Hackensack River
- Pennsylvania Railroad bridges
- Railroad bridges in New Jersey
- Vertical lift bridges in New Jersey
- Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
- Bridges in Hudson County, New Jersey
- Buildings and structures in Jersey City, New Jersey
- Kearny, New Jersey
- Steel bridges in the United States
- 1900 establishments in New Jersey