Long Dock Tunnel
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The Long Dock Tunnel is a freight rail tunnel in Jersey City, New Jersey that is part of the North Jersey Shared Assets Area and used by CSX Transportation on the National Docks Secondary. The single
Eastern portal above which are three engraved stones. The first lists the officers and engineers of the company. The seconds reads "Long Dock Company founded 1856". The third reads "Bergen Tunnel completed 1861".
Western portal above which is "Erie", the name of the railroad that owned the tunnel. To the south was the 1910 Erie Cut which traveled under the Bergen Arches.
The busiest tunnel point in the world in 1911, six Erie Railroad tracks below four Lackawanna tracks all emerging from tunnels under Bergen Hill
Bergen Arches
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Bergen Arches is an abandoned railroad right of way through Bergen Hill in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Long Dock Tunnel
…feet (21–27 m) in depth were sunk down from atop the Palisades to reach the tunnel. In 1910 the Erie Railroad replaced the Long Dock Tunnel with the Erie Cut, though primarily for use by passenger trains. Erie freight trains continued to use the tunnel as do freight railroads to this day. The northwestern…
"The Greatest Railroad Cut" 1910
The unused tunnel cut
After leaving the Erie Cut, trains traveled over city streets to reach the depot.