NEW YORK — A New York Congresswoman is raising concerns about a plan to build a freight rail tunnel between Jersey City, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y., the Ridgewood Times reports. U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., says the proposed Cross Harbor Freig...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/05/10-ny-freight-tunnel
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Since the tunnel is proposed to move freight, will it be able to handle double stack containers?
Supposedly yes. The first sentence from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Harbor_Rail_Tunnel#Facilities
"The proposed Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel tubes would be large enough to take double-stacked container cars.[19][ a ]" (though the footnote number reference is incorrect, I believe)
- PDN.
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