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Atop embankment at eastern end Retaining wall Stone support pier of viaduct which carried the line westward to what is now Journal Square. The Harsimus Stem Embankment, also called Sixth Street Embankment, is a half-mile-long historic railroad embankment, disused and largely overgrown with foliage, in the heart of the historic downtown of Jersey City, New Jersey in the United States.
Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christopher Columbus Drive on the south between Coles Street and Grove Street [3] or more broadly, to Marin Boulevard.
The P&H Line, before passing to Conrail, was the Pennsylvania Railroad's P&H Line. Before that, it was the Waverly and Passaic Branch south of the bridge over PATH, the PRR's main line from there to the River Line, and the Harsimus Branch where track no longer exists, east along the Harsimus Stem Embankment to Harsimus Cove.
Point-No-Point Bridge is a railroad bridge crossing the Passaic River between Newark and Kearny, New Jersey, United States, in the New Jersey Meadowlands.The swing bridge is the fourth from the river's mouth at Newark Bay and is 2.6 miles (4.2 km) upstream from it. [1]
Bridges at the lower end of the Hackensack River and the Lower Hack Lift just upstream from the clustered Wittpenn Bridge, the Harsimus Branch Lift, and PATH Lift (foreground), [1] collectively known as the "Triple Bridges" [2] [3] or "Tri Hack". The New Jersey Turnpike in the New Jersey Meadowlands in January 2007
2Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Tucson, AZ, USA 3Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA 4Department of Chemistry and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, WI, USA 5Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN, USA
An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...
Critical embankment velocity or critical speed, in transportation engineering, is the velocity value of the upper moving vehicle that causes the severe vibration of the embankment and the nearby ground.