NYSW Edgewater Tunnel

JasW wrote:And in one of my other favorite quirks concerning this tunnel, a neighborhood was built around the three-story ventilation shaft (imagine having THIS in your backyard!): http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qt24kj8v0286&lvl=19.155471238904138&dir=94.2427365397672&sty=b&form=LMLTCC

Same with the Lackawanna's Bergen Tunnel: east shaft west shaft. The north tube was built during the Civil War and the south tube in 1908.

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I sure hope they rehabilitated the tunnel before they put the oil pipeline through it. Last I saw the tunnel had a lake in it with running water...that was a long time ago. I don't think a plate C car would clear it either.

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It looks like the west portal ROW runs UNDER a portion of the Fairview Cemetery? difficult to tell with Google image.....and the impressive three story vent shaft in your back yard!

There was a short piece (sort of a "railroad oddities" thing) in Railroad Magazine many years ago pointing out that the railroad did indeed run under the cemetery.

the western tunnel portal is in a cut that is in the cemetary. probably a few hundred feet east of the 1&9 overpass.