This tower controls Pennsy's passenger and freight bridges over the Hackensack river.
Hack Tower is the high, skinny blue building on the bridge.
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| Street View, Jul 2018 |
Peter James Paras posted eight photos with the comment: "Not my photos. Conrail's Hack Tower. Location: Kearny, New Jersey. Built by the Pennsylvania RR. This route originally carried trains to PRR's Jersey City Terminal. PRR helped the Hudson and Manhattan RR expand their service from Journal Square to Newark, NJ (This eventually became the PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) railroad.) Hack Tower opened the two bridges it was built to do. It also controlled switches and signals South Kearny Yard. Later during CR days Hack took on remote interlockings on the Passiac and Harsimus (P&H) Line. Today, Hack tower and the bride it's on on owned and operated by PATH. It only is staffed when a ship has to navigate thru. The other bridge on the P&H line is controlled by CR's Upper Bay Tower for lifting and I believe the switches and signals are controlled by the Conrail North Jersey Dispatcher. Photos are from Conrail employees. Each photo will some some information on this."
Tim Shanahan shared
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| 1 Photo from Google Earth Hack tower is the cabin on top |
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| 2 PRR train going over the bridge. |
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| 3 Inside Hack Tower. Older interlocking. Top tracks are PATH, lower tracks are Conrail. Hack is on the PATH bridge. |
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| 4 Inside Hack Tower. Lift Bridge controls. |
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| 5 Inside Hack Tower New Keyboard on the desk controls new interlocking board. Photo by Rich Gunther |
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| 6, photo by rich Gunther, 1994 Inside Hack Tower. New interlocking board of the P & H line. Rich Gunther: The tower controlled Bud, Island, Stock Karny and Hack. Not Marion or Croxton shown on the top of the board. |
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| 7 Photo by Rich Gunther Photo from Hack's bridge. Conrail locomotives on the P & H line. |
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| 8 Interlocking diagram for Hack Tower. |
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