Tag: Penn Station South

Two Unrelated Events at Penn Station on the Same Day

September 13, 2025

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David Peter Alan

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Railgram

Two unrelated events occurred almost simultaneously at New York’s Penn Station on Wednesday, August 27, although both were rail-related. One was the inaugural of the new Next Gen Acela equipment that Amtrak is now running between Boston and Washington, D.C., and the other was a news conference that featured Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Andy…
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NJ Senators Back “Gateway” Tunnel

February 8, 2011

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Donald Winship

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Expansion Projects

US Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, both New Jersey Democrats, said in a press release on Sunday, February 6, that they now back a design for the trans-Hudson rail tunnel that would follow the now-cancelled tunnel that would have ended in a “deep cavern” station under 34th Street in Manhattan. However, as long proposed…
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