Excerpt from Compressed Air Magazine, Vol. 13: January to December, 1908
The work of excavating for the New York terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad is not at all tunnel work, but_ it is at the 'point where four of the tunnels are to meet. This work was, to think of, a Simple affair. It was only to dig a hole in the ground; but it was a hole measuring roughly, in the main portion of it.
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