Origin of Manhattan Transfer is part of N.J. history

New Jersey Newsroom Article - September 24, 2009:

Manhattan Transfer was a passenger rail station in Harrison on the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line to New York City, now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. It consisted of two transfer platforms, one on each side of the PRR line.

The original purposes of the station were for changing steam locomotives to electric locomotives on trains bound for Penn Station in midtown Manhattan. It also allowed passengers to transfer between these trains and trains bound for Exchange Place and a ferry connection to lower Manhattan, before the PRR was electrified to Philadelphia. When the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (later called the Hudson Tubes, and now known as PATH) was opened to Newark, one track was built on each side of the PRR in the area of Manhattan Transfer, and Hudson & Manhattan Railroad trains (H&M) stopped there, giving additional connecting service to lower Manhattan.

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