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The Portal Bridge is a two-track rotating swing-span railroad bridge over the Hackensack River in Kearny and Secaucus, New Jersey, United States. It is on the Northeast Corridor just west of Secaucus
The bridge in 2021
The bridge shortly after its construction in 1910. Note The bridge bed was strengthened with rails on the inside of the tracks as a safety measure. This was a very common construction method during that time.
The Portal Bridge in 2023 (center), with construction for the Portal North Bridge visible. The Lewandowski Bridge carrying the New Jersey Turnpike is at left.
The replacement Portal North Bridge under construction, viewed from the Kearny side of the Hackensack River, June 2025
The Gateway Program is an ongoing expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City along the right-of-way between Newark Penn Station and New
Portal Bridge
…it. By the 2000s, the Portal Bridge train speeds were limited to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). Replacement of the bridge is the first phase of the Gateway Project. After initially refusing to provide any funding for the project, the first Trump administration allowed the project to move forward in February 2020…
Construction of a future Gateway Program tunnel portal at West Side Yard in Manhattan in 2014
New York Tunnel Extension, 1912
Site of the western portal of the tunnel in North Bergen at Tonnelle Avenue
NEC passes through Harrison Station.