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Bergen Hill refers to the lower Hudson Palisades in New Jersey, United States, where they emerge on Bergen Neck,〔(Bergen Hill )〕 which in turn is the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson River, and their bays. In Hudson County, it reaches a height of 260 feet. ==Rail== Defining features of Bergen Hill include the 19th century and early 20th century railroad right of ways. cuts and tunnels created to provide access to the terminals and ferries on the North River (Hudson River) and Upper New York Bay, and eventually under the river. From south to north they are: * The Central Railroad of New Jersey lines traveled on the CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge across Newark Bay and through Bayonne and Greenville to its Communipaw Terminal. Portions are used by the Hudson Bergen Light Rail. * The Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway (later the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway) freight line on the bridge over Newark Bay and across Pamrapo is now used by CSX Transportation as the National Docks Secondary to Port Jersey and other points. * Newark and New York Railroad Branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (1869),〔(Mt Pleasant? )〕 now the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail West Side Branch, ran from Downtown Newark to Communipaw Terminal. * The Bergen Hill Cut (1838)- opened by, New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company, eventually to Pennsylvania Railroad to PRR Station at Exchange Place or Harsimus Branch along the Harsimus Stem Embankment to Harsimus Cove. Now used by PATH Journal Square and Newark lines * The Erie Cut (1910), whose portals are known as the Bergen Arches-Erie Railroad to Pavonia Terminal, now unused〔http://www.njcu.edu/Programs/jchistory/Pages/B_Pages/Bergen_Arches.htm〕 * The Long Dock Tunnel (1860)- the first Erie Cut, now Conrail Shared Assets freight line〔(Stone above Long Dock Tunnel )〕〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00A12FB395B137B93C0A8178ED85F438784F9〕 * The Bergen Hill Tunnels (1876) & (1908) under Jersey City Heights, built by Morris and Essex Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, Later, the Erie Lackawanna, and now, New Jersey Transit rail lines to Hoboken Terminal.〔French, Kenneth, ''Images of Rail:'' Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City,Arcadia Publishing, 2002, p125, ISBN 978-0-7385-0966-2〕〔http://www.njtransit.com/tm/tm_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=PressReleaseTo&PRESS_RELEASE_ID=203〕〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00A12FB395B137B93C0A8178ED85F438784F9〕〔http://bergenwaldo.blogspot.nl/p/erie-tunnel.html〕 * 9th Street-Congress Street (HBLR station) provides elevator service between the platform in Hoboken and Paterson Plank Road in Jersey City Heights * THE Tunnel was a planned, but now canceled, new mass transit tunnel that would have connected Secaucus Junction with an expanded Pennsylvania Station * The proposed Gateway Project would build a tunnel from North Bergen to Weehawken Cove and then under the Hudson * The North River Tunnels (1910), part of the Northeast Corridor and Northeast Corridor Line, their western entrance called the Bergen Portal〔https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21083/21083-h/21083-h.htm〕 * Liberty Place in Weehawken, New Jersey was cut and tunnel for the rail line connecting the waterfront elevator to the entrance of 19th century Eldorado Park, later used by the North Hudson Railway streetcar lines.〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30610F7355515738DDDAE0994DF405B8285F0D3〕 * Weehawken Tunnel, (1861) West Shore Railroad, now Hudson Bergen Light Rail〔(- 54k Weehawken Tunnel )〕〔http://www.mindat.org/loc-12816.html Weehawken Bergen tunnel〕〔(at western portal )〕 * Edgewater Tunnel (1894)〔(Palisades Tunnel completed )〕〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B0DE4DA1F3FEF33A25754C1A9659C94629ED7CF Palisades/NYS&W Tunnel〕 New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway cut and tunnel the western portal in Fairview and Hudson River portal in Shadyside, Edgewater.〔(Palisades Tunnel )〕〔(Palisades diabase )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bergen Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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