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Links to Sites Connected with the Hudson Tubes

Official PATH Schedules Detailed listings of current weekend and weekend schedules.

Official PA Updates on Expansion and reconstruction after the terrorist attacks

Bob Scheurle's Unofficial PATH website contains fare information as well as street maps showing the location of each PATH station.

Hudson & Manhattan Powerhouse Conservancy The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse is a first rank, world-class architectural and engineering achievement, one that must continue to exist as a splendid blueprint of Jersey City's greatest era. It is one of the last reminders of both the Gilded and Industrial Ages".

PATH Car Naming program Background information and listing of PATH cars named after localities in New Jersey

David Pirmann's PATH site offers, among other things, a wide variety of contemporary photographs of stock and stations as well as a H&M / PATH complete car register.

The entire NYCSubway.org site is a cornucopia of transit material for the New Jersey New York area; there is also a section devoted specifically to PATH.

Joseph Brennan's Abandoned Stations site includes Hudson Terminal.

Terry Kennedy's Hudson & Manhattan Gallery covers much historical background.

There apparently was one model train set of three cars produced around 1916 for a display for the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad. There now are replicas of this model of the original "black cars"

John Bell's PATH site includes an excellent system map

The PATH Forum of The Railroad Network is an excellent way of keeping up to date on PATH and learning about the history of the Hudson & Manhattan RR.

A few printed sources on the Tubes

Gotham Turnstiles: A Visual Depiction of Rapid Transit in the New York Metropolitan Area from 1958-1968 by John Henderson; H & M Productions; (May 1992) ISBN: 0962903787 Although only about one third of the book concerns the Hudson Tubes, it is still highly recommended. The author's excellent photographic work shows the old and new Tubes, at the switchover from H&M to PATH. In addition the book treats, among other things, the Jersey Citty PRR Terminal, New York's Myrtle Avenue El, the [Bronx] Third Avenue El, Dyre Avenue line, etc.
Rails Under the Mighty Hudson : The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsy Tunnels, and Manhatten Transfer (Hudson Valley Heritage Series, 2) by Brian J. Cudahy 2nd edition (June 2002) From Book News, Inc. The author has updated his 1975 book (Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont), recounting both engineering and socio-political events connected with the building of railways under the Hudson River. About one third of the book concerns the Hudson Tubes.
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Revisited by Paul Carleton [op] ISBN: 1112660224 Publisher: D Carleton Railbooks. There are large sections of citations from sources contemporary with the construction of the Tubes; most of the book is centered on the late H&M - early Port Authority period and contains a wide selection of good photographs made by the author in the 1970s and, especially, in the 1980s. The Newark service history is particularly extensive. If one were allowed to have only one book on the Tubes, this would be it. The book is now out of print but can be obtained used by clicking the link above.

Links to Sites of Transit Interest

Kavanagh Transit Photos brings you over 525 photographs of transit and railroad related items from 49 different cities, 8 countries, on 3 continents.
David Pirmann presents a station by station pictorial guide to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail [trolley].
Although Transit World New York is focussed on the New York / New Jersey area, it also has images and information on transit and railroading throughout the country.
Robert Reynolds' website, The Subway Page, offers not only a large selection of transit links and maps but also an interesting transit bibliography.
The Joseph D. Korman Collection, the Terry Kennedy Collection, the Joseph Brennan Collection, the Unofficial NJ Transit page and NYC Rail site offer transit material with an emphasis on the New Jersey / New York area.
Fallen Flag Railroads of New Jersey goes beyond the transit field but has tangential information on the H&M.
Dave's Rail Pix offers links and images of railroads throughout North America.
Tim's Rail Transit Photos concentrates on the Stockholm subway but has excursi to New Orleans and Berlin.
Lytton's Transit Pages on transit in general and PCC cars in particular.
Michael Dietrich's Eisenbahnseite covers, among other things, the Berlin subway and maglev trains
Station Reporter is a newly opened site and focusses on the NY NJ metropolitan area.
City Rail Transit provides information about rail-based transit networks within cities for railway fans and travellers who are planning a visit, bringing practial information as well as rail transit maps. It also has begun publishing picture books of European rail transit systems.

Links to Sites of Jersey City Interest

Above the Journal Square Tubes station is the Loew's Jersey, one of the country's largest and most ornate movie palaces, now being restored to its original condition. This site, run by the Friends of the Loews Jersey, gives the details of and displays fantastic images of the restored theater.

The Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy is an organization formed to preserve, protect and promote Jersey City's historic sites, buildings, objects and districts. Among our activities, the Landmarks Conservancy is leading a major historic preservation campaign for the 1906 Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse".

The Jersey City Apple Tree House where LaFayette and Washington dined is in the process of rehabilitation.

Although only tangentially connected to the history of the Hudson Tubes, the picture book Jersey City in Vintage Postcards is an excellent source of background information on Jersey City.

Hoboken Historical Museum

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