West Portal: (Satellite)
East Portal: (Satellite)
"Significance: The South Bergen Tunnel is technologically significant for its
innovative concrete technology and is historically significant because
it reflected the dramatic increase in railroad freight operations on the
D.L.&W. Railroad by the opening of the twentieth century." [HAER_data]
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| HAER NJ-137-8 West-facing portals within Open Cut No. 2 (South Bergen Tunnel on right, North Bergen Tunnel [ see HAER No. NJ-136]) on left), from within the opposite portal of the South Bergen Tunnel, looking east - Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, South Bergen Tunnel, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ |
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| HAER NJ-137-7 |
The west portal is behind those two truss bridges. The bridges carry the DL&W over the Erie.
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| Street View, Oct 2012 |
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| HAER NJ-137-2 General view from railroad bridge over Conrail tracks showing the west portal of the South Bergen Tunnel in context, with the Conrail tunnel below and to the right, looking east - Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, South Bergen Tunnel, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ |
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| Eugene Powell posted An Erie Lackawanna Railroad locomotive, Engine #'854 with an eastbound Train # 1407, emerges from the East Portal of the South Bergen Tunnel. Location: Jersey City, N.J Photo Taken: June 7, 1965 Photo' Victor Hand Erie Lackawanna Railway passenger service trains in North Jersey came to an halt along with the discontinuation of the Lake Cities trains on January 4, 1970. Thanks to Photographers like Victor Hand to catch shots in North Jersey, Pre 1970. ( Another Time Capsule view) |
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| 1955/58 Jersey City @ 24,000 |
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