. Traveller's steamboat and railroad guide to the Hudson River : describing the cities, towns, and places of interest along the route : with maps and en . sortof bay, by a pile bridge nearly a mile in length, and extending more thanone third of the distance across the stream. On reaching the shore it inter-sects a short branch built for the accommodation of the iron works at ColdSpring. The road passes directly through the village of Cold Spring, wheretwo formidable rock cuts were encountered. ^ From this point to Breakneck Hill the fiHroad is nearly straight, notwithstanding thenumerous lays
. Traveller's steamboat and railroad guide to the Hudson River : describing the cities, towns, and places of interest along the route : with maps and en . sortof bay, by a pile bridge nearly a mile in length, and extending more thanone third of the distance across the stream. On reaching the shore it inter-sects a short branch built for the accommodation of the iron works at ColdSpring. The road passes directly through the village of Cold Spring, wheretwo formidable rock cuts were encountered. ^ From this point to Breakneck Hill the fiHroad is nearly straight, notwithstanding thenumerous lays in the river, and the rocky .projections from the hills, presenting obsta-cles which seem to bid defiance to the skillof the engineer. At Breakneck, the road passes the sixthtunnel, and follows along close to the water,crossing Fishkill Creek, in rear of DenningsPoint. Here the Highlands end. North ofthe creek is a cutting in blue clay, more diffi-cult to excavate, in some respects, than the hard rock cuts. North of Wappingers Creek, which is crossed by a pile bridge at thevillage of New Hamburg, the road encounters a ridge of limestone rock, verj. 16 HUDSON RIVER AND RAILROAD. hard and compact. Here it was necessary to construct a tunnel of consider-able length, the seventh upon the line. To expedite the work, two shaftswere sunk, o .e seventy-two feet from the surface of the ground, the other tothe depth of fifty-three feet. A large portion of the tunnel excavation wasdrawn up through these shafts by steam power; and the water, which atsome periods was troublesome, was disposed of in the same way. The eighthtunnel is about one mile north of Milton Ferry. At Poughkeepsie the line passes through the lower part of the place, allthe roads leading to the river being carried over the railroad. North of thisstation are two heavy sections. Indeed, of the twenty-six miles extendingfrom Poughkeepsie to Tivoli, the north line of Duchess county, seven arerock cuttings. A line was origina
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