Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

[Greg]

Isn't the topography around there a shale or other sedentary rock? BTW, I stayed awake in Geology, and actually liked the course as a non-core elective.

I'm fairly certain all rock is sedentary by nature. The proposed cut stood atop an anticlinal formation consisting of what they referred to as 'decayed rock' that was too brittle to support the cut's walls.

[Dcell]

NJT was able to shortened the tunnel to less than 1,000 feet in length as part of the ongoing project, to skirt federal safety requirements for tunnel ventilation.

[Gilbert B Norman]

OK Greg, Geo 101-2 @ Univ of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, didn't get into a Civil Engineering matter such as it appears you are addressing.

[Greg]

OK Greg, Geo 101-2 @ Univ of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, didn't get into a Civil Engineering matter such as it appears you are addressing.

You asked a question, that's the answer.

[Gilbert B Norman]

And of course to which I say, TY