The Hudson and Manhattan Powerhouse, which lit the first tunnel under the Hudson
Washington Street at Bay Street, Jersey City, New Jersey
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A first attempt at tunnelling under the Hudson began in 1874 and killed twenty men in a blowout before it stopped. William Gibbs McAdoo restarted it and finished, and on 25 February 1908 Theodore Roosevelt sent a telegram from the White House that was the signal to throw the switches in this coal-fired plant and electrify the line. It was the first rail tunnel under a major American river, and the trains still run through it as PATH.
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