(Source: Bloomberg, January 10, 2018)
NEW YORK — To get to New York’s Penn Station, every northbound Amtrak passenger makes the last leg of their journey, through tunnels beneath the Hudson River, in the dark. Trust me: They should be glad. One day this autumn, an Acela pulls into Newark, N.J., and a railway spokesman escorts me onto the rear engine car, where we stand and take in the view facing backward. As we descend into one of the Hudson tunnels — there are two, both 107 years old, finished in the same year the Wright brothers built their first airplane factory — a supervisor flips on the rear headlights, illuminating the ghastly tubes.
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