Hudson River tunnels

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rail tunnel complex railway infrastructure

The Hudson River tunnels are a pair of early 20th-century rail tunnels beneath the Hudson River that carry Amtrak and NJ Transit trains between New Jersey and New York City’s Penn Station.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	rail tunnel complex → railway infrastructure →
affectedBy	Hurricane Sandy flooding →
alsoKnownAs	North River Tunnels →
associatedProject	New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad →
carries	commuter rail traffic → intercity rail traffic →
cityServed	New York City → Newark →
connects	New Jersey → New York City → New York Penn Station →
constructedBy	Pennsylvania Railroad →
constructionMethod	tunnel boring and shield-driven excavation →
constructionStart	1904 →
country	United States →
designedFor	electric traction →
easternPortalLocation	Manhattan, New York City →
easternTerminus	New York Penn Station →
electrification	overhead catenary →
engineeringType	subaqueous tunnel →
heritage	early electrified mainline rail tunnels →
historicalSignificance	early 20th-century under-river rail tunnels →
locatedUnder	Hudson River →
notUsedBy	freight trains →
numberOfTubes	2 →
opened	1910 →
openedForService	November 1910 →
operator	Amtrak →
originalOperator	Pennsylvania Railroad →
originalRailroadTerminalReplaced	ferry connections to Manhattan →
owner	Amtrak →
parallelTo	future Gateway Program tunnels (planned) →
partOf	Northeast Corridor → access route to New York Penn Station from the west →
primaryFunction	link New Jersey rail lines to Manhattan →
purpose	railroad access to Manhattan →
region	Northeastern United States →
relatedTo	Gateway Program →
requires	major rehabilitation →
status	in service →
trackGauge	standard gauge →
trafficType	passenger rail only →
usedBy	Amtrak → NJ Transit →
westernPortalLocation	North Bergen, New Jersey → Weehawken, New Jersey →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Morris & Essex Lines ("North River Tunnels") → PATH →	usesTunnel
Hudson River tunnels ("North River Tunnels") →	alsoKnownAs
Hudson River tunnels ("New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad") →	associatedProject
Penn Station (New York City) →	connectedBy
PATH train system →	hasTunnel
East River Tunnels ("North River Tunnels") →	isParallelTo