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Key attendees were Queen Elizabeth II, Vice President Richard Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. [8] [9] In 1972 a tanker, the MV Venus, exploded while transiting the lock. [10] On June 18, 2015, the cruise ship Saint Laurent collided with the lock, causing it to be drained, and closed for almost two days. [11] [12] [13] [14]
The Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge is a railroad bridge spanning the Hudson River between Castleton-on-Hudson and Selkirk, New York in the United States.. The bridge is owned by CSX Transportation and was originally built for the New York Central Railroad, which was subsequently merged into the Penn Central and then Conrail before being acquired by CSX.
Tri-States Monument, where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. In the background, Interstate 84 crosses between NY and PA just north of the monument. The New York–Pennsylvania border is the state line between the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It has three sections:
A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania (2d ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 256–271. ISBN 978-0-8229-3630-5. Wilkinson, Norman B. (1979). Land policy and speculation in Pennsylvania, 1779-1800: a test of the New Democracy. The Management of public lands in the United States. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-405-11357-4
Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
York, Pennsylvania: American Canal and Transportation Center. ISBN 0-933788-37-1. Whitford, Nobel E., and Beal, Minnie M. (1906). History of the Canal System of the State of New York Together with Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada, "Chapter 18: The Chenango Canal Extension". Albany, New York: Brandow Printing Company.
The DL&W built the viaduct as part of its 39.6-mile (63.7 km) Nicholson Cutoff, which replaced a winding and hilly section of the route between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York, saving 3.6 miles (5.8 km), 21 minutes of passenger train time, and one hour of freight train time.
The original Pennsylvania Route 3 was the designation for the William Penn Highway running from Hanover Township to Easton.After its decommissioning in 1930, PA 3 was renumbered in several areas to extend active routes, including US 22 from the WV/PA state line to Harrisburg, PA 60 from Robinson Township to Pittsburgh, US 322 from Harrisburg to Hershey, US 422 from Hershey to Wyomissing, US ...