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  Hudson River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hudson River Railroad was chartered the next year as a continuation of the Troy and Greenbush south to New York City, and was completed in 1851.
The width of the Lower Hudson River required major feats of engineering to cross, the results today visible in the Verrazano Narrows and George Washington Bridges, as well as the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and the PATH and Pennsylvania Railroad tubes.
The Hudson River serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York, and further north between counties Manhattan and The Bronx in New York.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hudson River
The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey.
The Hudson is joined near Albany by the Mohawk River, its major tributary and flows south until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean between Manhattan Island and New Jersey, forming New York Harbor, at New York Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Hudson as it passes through New York City is also known as the North River.
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 Articles - Hudson River
The natural beauty of the Hudson Valley earned the Hudson River the nickname "America´s Rhine", the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley being compared to that of the famous 40-mile (65 km) stretch of Germany´s Rhine River valley between the cities of Bingen and Koblenz.
The Narrows form the mouth of the Hudson River which empties the river waters into the Atlantic Ocean via a tidal strait (narrows) between Staten Island and Brooklyn.
The Hudson River serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York, and further north between counties in New York.
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 New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
The next move for the railroad to expand was developing to the West of Buffalo.
June 30, 1889 The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (The Big Four) is formed from the merger of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway and the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railway.
On passenger trains, railroads operated lots of equipment other than sleepers, coaches, dining cars, etc. This equipment was generally called 'head-end' equipment, these 'freight' cars were at one time plentiful and highly profitable for the railroads.
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