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===East River Division=== The East River Division managed construction of tunnels running across Manhattan, and under the East River to [[Queens]]. The [[East River Tunnels]] are four single-track tunnels that extend from the eastern end of Pennsylvania Station and cross the East River.<ref name="Cudahy"/>{{rp|29}} East of the station, tracks 5–21 merge into two 3-track tunnels, which then merge into the East River Tunnels' four tracks. The tunnels end and the tracks rise to ground level east of the Queens shoreline.<ref name="Mills 1908"/> The tunnels connect to [[Sunnyside Yard]], a large {{convert|75|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[coach yard]] that could hold up to 1,550 train carriages. Construction proceeded concurrently with the North River tunnels.<ref name="Schafer" /><ref name="Scientific American 1910"/>{{rp|201}}<ref name="Cudahy"/>{{rp|20}} The tunnels were built by [[S. Pearson and Son]], the same company who had built the Uptown Hudson Tubes.<ref name="NYTimes-TunnelBuilders-1904"/><ref name="Cudahy"/>{{rp|33}} The tunnel technology was so innovative that in 1907 the PRR shipped an actual {{convert|23|ft|m|adj=on}} diameter section of the new East River Tunnels to the [[Jamestown Exposition]] in [[Norfolk, Virginia]], to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the nearby founding of the colony at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Industrial Magazine | publisher=Geo. S. Mackintosh | issue=v. 7, no. 2 | year=1907 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yoAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA79 | access-date=May 23, 2018 | page=79}}</ref> The same tube, with an inscription indicating that it had been displayed at the Exposition, was later installed under water and remains in use. Construction was completed on the East River tunnels on March 18, 1908.<ref>{{cite web |title=FOURTH RIVER TUBE THROUGH; Last of Pennsylvania-Long Island Tunnels Connected -- Sandhogs Celebrate. | website=The New York Times | date=March 19, 1908 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/19/archives/fourth-river-tube-through-last-of-pennsylvanialong-island-tunnels.html | access-date=May 23, 2018}}</ref> LIRR service to Penn Station began on September 8, 1910.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/09/09/archives/day-long-throng-inspects-new-tube-35000-persons-were-carried-on-the.html|title=DAY LONG THRONG INSPECTS NEW TUBE; 35,000 Persons Were Carried on the First Day of Pennsylvania's Tunnel Service. ACCIDENT MARRED OPENING Morning Trains Delayed Two Hours by Broken Third Rail -- Some Complaints Over Extra Fare.|date=September 9, 1910|website=The New York Times|access-date=May 22, 2018}}</ref> [[File:PCPOST HudsonRiverTubes Diagram.png|thumb|center|600px|A diagram showing how [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] tracks reached [[Manhattan]]|alt=A diagram of the tunnels, stating: "How Pennsylvania Railroad tracks reached Manhattan. The underwater sections, usually called tunnels, are really tubes suspended in silt."]]
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