The building of the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York

A rare map of the railway network of the eastern United States, advertising the attempt to tunnel under the Hudson River to connect Jersey City with Manhattan. Underneath the map is a prospect of Manhattan with the position of what became 'The Uptown Hudson Tubes' marked in red and the Brooklyn Bridge (opened 1883) shown. The attempt was begun by Col. Dewitt Clinton Haskin (1824-1900) an engineer founded the Hudson Tunnel Company in 1873. He began work the following year but ran out of money in 1887. An unknown British company continued the work from 1889-91, before the project was completed by William Gibbs McAdoo in 1908. As this map was printed in London it is probable that it was issued in an investment prospectus.