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<p>From the Times:</p><p>"TO many commuters, the two tunnels that connect New Jersey and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan seem so ordinary that they barely give them a second thought - except, perhaps, when their train breaks down inside them.</p><p>"Yet when the Pennsylvania Railroad blasted the final pieces of rock out of the tunnels to complete the underground link a century ago this week, they were hailed by many as an engineering marvel and the product of foresight and gumption.</p><p>"The Gilded Age tunnels have performed remarkably well and defied skeptics - including some of the engineers who built them and doubted their durability. Each business day, about 150,000 passengers ride the 337 New Jersey Transit trains that roll through the 6,100-foot-long cast iron tubes, which are owned and operated by Amtrak, which itself runs 104 trains. Another 39 empty New Jersey Transit trains use the tunnel." </p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/06RtunnelNJ.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/06RtunnelNJ.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>
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